Longest Sixes in IPL History begin with a record that still refuses to fall: 125 meters.
Albie Morkel hit it in the very first IPL season, and no one has gone past it since. That is what makes this list so compelling.
It is not just packed with names like Chris Gayle, Adam Gilchrist, and Yuvraj Singh, but also a few entries no one would have predicted. Some came in high-scoring chaos, some in big-match pressure, and some out of nowhere.
But every one of them had the same effect. The bat swung, the crowd looked up, and the ball kept traveling.
The 10 Longest Sixes Ever Hit In IPL
The complete all-time list, ranked by distance.
| Rank | Player | Distance | Team | Opponent | Venue | Year | Bowler |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Albie Morkel | 125m | Chennai Super Kings | Deccan Chargers | Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad | 2008 | Pragyan Ojha |
| 2 | Praveen Kumar | 124m | Royal Challengers Bangalore | Rajasthan Royals | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru | 2008 | Yusuf Pathan |
| 3 | Adam Gilchrist | 122m | Kings XI Punjab | Royal Challengers Bangalore | HPCA Stadium, Dharamshala | 2011 | Charl Langeveldt |
| 4 | Robin Uthappa | 120m | Royal Challengers Bangalore | Mumbai Indians | Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai | 2010 | Dwayne Bravo |
| 5 | Chris Gayle | 119m | Royal Challengers Bangalore | Pune Warriors India | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru | 2013 | Ali Murtaza |
| 6 | Yuvraj Singh | 119m | Kings XI Punjab | Chennai Super Kings | SuperSport Park, Centurion | 2009 | Albie Morkel |
| 7 | Ross Taylor | 119m | Royal Challengers Bangalore | Chennai Super Kings | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru | 2008 | Jacob Oram |
| 8 | Ben Cutting | 117m | Sunrisers Hyderabad | Royal Challengers Bangalore | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru | 2016 | Shane Watson |
| 9 | Liam Livingstone | 117m | Punjab Kings | Gujarat Titans | DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai | 2022 | Mohammed Shami |
| 10 | Gautam Gambhir | 117m | Kolkata Knight Riders | Rajasthan Royals | Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur | 2013 | S. Sreesanth |
1. Albie Morkel (Chennai Super Kings) — 125 Meters, 2008
The record that started everything came from a man who was not even the main attraction that night. Morkel walked in as a lower-order hitter for CSK against the Deccan Chargers at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. Pragyan Ojha bowled a delivery on his pads.
Morkel charged down the track and got under it completely, sending it over deep midwicket with such force that the ball cleared the stadium roof and landed in the parking lot outside. ESPNcricinfo records show Morkel played 91 IPL matches across four franchises, taking 85 wickets at an economy of 8.20.
The fact that his most remembered IPL moment is a six, not a wicket, tells you how far that ball actually traveled. Eighteen seasons later, no one has come within 1 meter of it.
2. Praveen Kumar (Royal Challengers Bangalore) — 124 Meters, 2008
Nobody expected this. Praveen Kumar was a swing bowler. A proper one. The kind who bowled five maidens in a tournament and took pride in it.
Playing for RCB against Rajasthan Royals at Chinnaswamy Stadium, he faced off-spinner Yusuf Pathan and connected so cleanly over long-on that the ball nearly hit the roof of the stadium. One meter short of Morkel’s record and hit by a man whose batting strike rate across IPL read nowhere near big-hitter territory.
The scorecard from that match shows Kumar coming in late in the RCB innings, a team that eventually lost by 13 runs to CSK. He gave them a moment anyway. Still, the longest six ever hit by an Indian player in IPL history.
3. Adam Gilchrist (Kings XI Punjab) — 122 Meters, 2011
Gilchrist was 39 years old and still doing this. Kings XI Punjab vs RCB at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamshala, May 17, 2011. He had barely got off the mark early on, sitting at 2 off 9 balls before something switched.
By the 10th over, Charl Langeveldt bowled a knuckle-ball. Gilchrist read it early, swung through the line, and sent it 122 meters over midwicket into the thin mountain air. ESPNcricinfo’s match report described it as the moment Langeveldt winced, and Kohli stared into the distance. Gilchrist finished that innings on 106 off 55 balls, hitting 9 sixes in total. Kings XI won by 111 runs.
The altitude at Dharamshala helped the ball carry further, but you still need the bat speed to get it that far.
4. Robin Uthappa (Royal Challengers Bangalore) — 120 Meters, 2010
Uthappa was always the kind of batter who made difficult things look effortless. In 205 IPL matches across six franchises, he scored 4,952 runs at a strike rate of 130.35.
The 120-meter six against the Mumbai Indians at Brabourne Stadium in 2010 came off Dwayne Bravo, a bowler who had seen everything in T20 cricket. Uthappa timed it through midwicket with the kind of contact that barely looks like effort from outside. No heave, no slog. Just perfect timing on a delivery that had no business traveling that far.
That shot remains the cleanest hit in this top 10, purely based on how little force it appeared to need.
5. Chris Gayle (Royal Challengers Bangalore) — 119 Meters, 2013
This did not happen in isolation. It happened during 175 not out off 66 balls. The highest individual score in IPL history. April 23, 2013. RCB vs Pune Warriors India at Chinnaswamy Stadium. Gayle reached his fifty off 17 balls, his hundred off 30. He hit 13 fours and 17 sixes in that innings, and RCB posted 263/5 in 20 overs.
Ali Murtaza pushed one into Gayle’s hitting zone, and the ball went 119 meters over long-on onto the stadium roof. The final scorecard shows RCB won by 130 runs.
17 Sixes that evening, and the one that traveled 119 meters was not even the one that fans remember first. That is the scale of what Gayle did that night.
6. Yuvraj Singh (Kings XI Punjab) — 119 Meters, 2009
The 2009 IPL was moved to South Africa due to the Indian general elections. Yuvraj Singh, playing for Kings XI Punjab against CSK at SuperSport Park in Centurion, faced Albie Morkel, the same man who holds the all-time record.
The high altitude at Centurion is above 1,300 meters, which means the air is thinner and the ball carries farther than at most Indian venues. Yuvraj’s 119-meter hit was not just power. It was the combination of his natural hitting ability and a venue that added distance to everything that day.
This is the same Yuvraj who hit six sixes in an over at the 2007 T20 World Cup. At Centurion, he did not need six. One was enough.
7. Ross Taylor (Royal Challengers Bangalore) — 119 Meters, 2008
Taylor was not a T20 slogger and never pretended to be.
The April 28, 2008 scorecard confirms it: he scored 53 off 34 balls for RCB against CSK at Chinnaswamy Stadium, hitting 3 fours and 3 sixes in a measured, controlled knock. One of those sixes, off fellow New Zealander Jacob Oram, went 119 meters over deep midwicket. CSK still won that match by 13 runs, with MS Dhoni hitting 65 off 30 at the top. Taylor’s six gets forgotten inside that result. It should not.
3 New Zealanders at Chinnaswamy that evening, and the biggest hit of the night came from the one least expected to produce it.
8. Ben Cutting (Sunrisers Hyderabad) — 117 Meters, 2016
The 2016 IPL Final. Chinnaswamy Stadium. SRH vs RCB. Cutting walked in at number six with SRH needing to post a target big enough to beat the most dangerous batting lineup in that tournament. He faced Shane Watson and hit a 117-meter six that changed the complexion of the innings.
The final scorecard shows Cutting scored 39 off just 15 balls, hitting 3 fours and 4 sixes at a strike rate of 260. SRH posted 208/7. RCB fell 8 runs short chasing 209. Cutting won Player of the Match. SRH lifted their first IPL trophy.
That six was not just the longest of the night. It was the one that broke RCB’s back.
9. Liam Livingstone (Punjab Kings) — 117 Meters, 2022
Punjab Kings paid INR 11.5 crore for Livingstone at the 2022 auction. They got their money’s worth on one delivery alone.
Mohammed Shami bowled a length ball at 134.7 kph in the 16th over against the Gujarat Titans at DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. Livingstone sent it 117 meters over deep square-leg, so high that ESPNcricinfo’s commentary described it as appearing to go over the stadium roof. Graeme Smith on air called it a monster. Aakash Chopra said it deserved eight runs. Livingstone’s expression after the hit went from disbelief to a laugh in about two seconds.
PBKS chased the target with an eight-wicket win. He had 23 sixes in that IPL alone, second only to Jos Buttler’s 36.
10. Gautam Gambhir (Kolkata Knight Riders) — 117 Meters, 2013
Gambhir was a builder, not a destroyer. His reputation across KKR’s back-to-back title wins in 2012 and 2014 was built on grinding out runs at the top, not clearing boundaries at will.
The April 8, 2013 scorecard tells the full story: KKR batted second at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, chasing 145 against Rajasthan Royals. Gambhir scored 22 off 22 balls before Siddharth Trivedi had him caught behind.
KKR lost by 19 runs. Somewhere in those 22 balls, Gambhir hit S. Sreesanth for 117 meters. The match was a loss.
The six was a reminder that even the most disciplined batter in the lineup can produce something extraordinary when the moment arrives.
The Venues That Helped the Ball Fly
- 4 of the top 10 came at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
- Its short boundaries have helped produce some massive hits
- Dharamshala and Centurion also feature due to their high altitude
- Thin air at those venues can help the ball travel further
- Venue plays a role, but clean power is still the main factor
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Conclusion: Morkel’s 125m Six Stands Unbroken After 18 IPL Seasons
Albie Morkel hit the longest six in IPL history in the very first season of the tournament. It has now survived 18 editions, dozens of record-chasing power hitters, and an entire generation of T20 cricket that was built specifically to produce moments like that.
Praveen Kumar, a swing bowler, sits one meter behind him. Chris Gayle, the most prolific six-hitter in IPL history, is fifth on this list. Every season brings someone new who gets close. None has got there yet.
Frequently Asked Questions
Albie Morkel holds the record with a 125-meter six-hitter against Deccan Chargers in the 2008 IPL season at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad.
Yes. Praveen Kumar holds the record for the longest six by an Indian player at 124 meters, hit for RCB against Rajasthan Royals in 2008. Robin Uthappa, Yuvraj Singh, and Gautam Gambhir also feature in the all-time top 10.
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru appears four times in the top 10, more than any other IPL venue.
Yes, Ben Cutting hit his 117-meter six during the 2016 IPL Final at Chinnaswamy Stadium. Sunrisers Hyderabad won the match by 8 runs and lifted their first IPL title that night.
IPL uses ball-tracking and radar systems to measure six distances officially. These are the figures recorded on iplt20.com and referenced by ESPNcricinfo.
The 2008 to 2011 era featured established international power hitters like Gilchrist, Gayle, and Morkel at the peak of their careers. Six of the top 10 entries came from those first four seasons, a pattern that modern players, despite better equipment and training, have largely been unable to change.
