We had a fantastic edition of the 2017 IPL, and the great news for fans is that the 2018 edition is not too far away. We don’t have long to wait until we see some of the world’s biggest cricketing stars taking to the field and competing hard with the bat and ball. The 11Th season of the Indian Premier League will begin from 7 April, 2018. Last ten seasons have already passed so there are plenty of numbers to play with. Players like Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers and Chris Gayle have created and broken many records till date in the tournament. Lets take a look at this surprising facts of IPL history:
1. Sarfaraz Khan was only 10 years old when IPL began back in 2008. Now he’s 20 and playing for RCB alongside ABD, Kohli.
2. Sunil Narine as opening batsmen for KKR and also scored fastest fifty in just 15 balls
3. Piyush Chawla takes 386 overs to ball his IPL first no-ball
4. Gautaum Gambhir hold the record for most fours 483
5. Aaron Finch holds the record for represent more number of IPL Teams (7)
6. Ashok Dinda has played for 4 franchises but every single time the respective franchise ended up in the bottom four.
7. Manish Pandey and Robin Uthappa both have played for 4 different IPL Teams but they both have been in the same team for all 10 seasons.
8. In 2013 Dale Steyn bowled 212 dot balls, highest by any bowler. In total he bowled 407 balls in that season, more than 50% dot balls.
9. Delhi Daredevils is only team that has never played an IPL final.
10. Rohit Sharma is the only players who had won IPL Title. Four times- the most by any player in the league.