Big scores, big chases, big aggregates - the IPL 2025 runathon
Virat Kohli and Suryakumar Yadav created new IPL records in a season where more 200-plus totals were scored and chased down than ever before
Namooh Shah
05-Jun-2025
IPL 2025 was many things, a record-breaking season for batters one of them. Here's a look at the numbers that prove it.
52 - 200-plus totals recorded in IPL 2025, the most in a single edition, surpassing the 41 in IPL 2024.
9 - Times that teams successfully chased 200-plus totals this season, another all-time high, going past eight in IPL 2023.
8 - 200-plus totals each by Punjab Kings (PBKS) and Gujarat Titans (GT) - the most by a team in a single IPL season.
A stack of individual batting records
2245 - Fours hit in IPL 2025, the most in any season, eclipsing the 2174 in both IPL 2023 and IPL 2024.
1294 - Sixes struck in IPL 2025, another record, going past the previous best of 1260 in IPL 2024.
152 - 50-plus scores in IPL 2025, just one behind the record of 153 in IPL 2023.
RCB's heroes
7 - Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) became the first team to win all their away league games in an IPL season, also finishing a drought of wins at Chepauk (after 17 years), at the Wankhede Stadium (after ten years) and at Eden Gardens (after six years).
9 - Different players winning the Player-of-the-Match awards for RCB this season, only Mumbai Indians (MI) in IPL 2017 had more (ten) in a season.
10 - Different players scoring fifties for RCB this season - the most by a team in a T20 tournament season.
Top orders dominate with 500-plus seasons
3 - Players from a single team, GT, scoring 500-plus runs in a season - Jos Buttler (538), Shubman Gill (650) and Sai Sudharsan (759). It's a first in IPL history.
11 - Players who scored 500-plus runs in IPL 2025 - the most in a single edition of the tournament, going past the eight in IPL 2018 and IPL 2023.
7 - Different teams had players with 500-plus runs in the season, only the second time this has happened after IPL 2018.
Virat Kohli, the milestone man stands tall again
71 - 50-plus scores in the IPL for Kohli, now the most by a batter in the IPL, going past David Warner's 66.
8 - 50-plus scores in winning causes this season for Kohli, the most in a season, going past the record he held - from IPL 2016 - jointly with Warner (also in IPL 2016), and Gill (IPL 2023). All of them had seven each.
5 - Seasons of 600-plus runs for Kohli, the most by any batter, ahead of KL Rahul's four.
3 - Consecutive seasons with 600-plus runs for Kohli, only the third player to do so after Chris Gayle (IPL 2011 to 2013) and Rahul (IPL 2020 to IPL 2022).
Suryakumar Yadav breaks a world record
717 - Runs for Suryakumar in IPL 2025, the most by a non-opener in a T20 tournament, surpassing AB de Villiers' 687 in IPL 2016.
He also scored the most runs by an MI batter in an IPL season, surpassing Sachin Tendulkar's 618 in IPL 2010.
16 - Consecutive 25-plus scores in T20s for Suryakumar - a new world record, going past Temba Bavuma's 13 in 2019-20. Sixteen such scores by Suryakumar is also by far the most in an IPL season, leaving behind Kane Williamson's 13 in IPL 2018 and Gill in IPL 2023.
An all-time low for CSK
10 - Chennai Super Kings' (CSK) position on the points table, the first time they finished last. Their previous worst was finishing seventh in IPL 2020 and ninth in IPL 2022.
5 - Home losses for CSK out of six games at Chepauk - their worst-ever return in a season at the venue.
3 - CSK's first home losses to RCB (after 17 years), Delhi Capitals (DC) (after 15 years), and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) (first time) - all in the same season.
PBKS do the unthinkable
111 - Lowest ever total successfully defended in IPL history, by PBKS against KKR in New Chandigarh.
246 - The second-highest target ever chased against a team in IPL, also conceded by PBKS, against SRH in Hyderabad.
Namooh Shah is a stats analyst at ESPNcricinfo