Chris Gayle IPL Runs – Year by Year

If you ask anyone with the slightest idea of the game who holds the sixes records in IPL, the answer would be, without a doubt, Chris Gayle!

Gayle started his IPL career in 2009 with Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) side. He played under the likes of Brendon McCullum and Saurav Ganguly at KKR and the Caribbean opener was not utilised by the KKR leadership to his full potential.

It all changed when he was bought by RCB in 2011. Gayle won the Orange Cap, the recognition given to the highest run-scorers of each season, for two consecutive years in 2011 and 2012. He even missed the third straight one by just 25 runs to Michael Hussey in 2013.

Eventually, Gayle ended up playing for Punjab Kings (PBKS), the franchise for which he played in four seasons under the leadership of Ravichandran Ashwin and KL Rahul.

This article will list the year-by-year runs tally of Chris Gayle in the Indian Premier League.

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Chris Gayle IPL Runs Every Season

SEASON	TEAM	RUNS	INNINGS	AVERAGE	S/R	HIGH SCORE	50s/100s	NOT-OUTS
2009	KKR	171	7	28.5	119.58	44*	0/0	1
2010	KKR	292	9	32.44	158.7	88	2/0	0
2011	RCB	608	12	67.56	183.13	107	3/2	3
2012	RCB	733	14	61.08	160.75	128*	7/1	2
2013	RCB	708	16	59	156.29	175*	4/1	4
2014	RCB	196	9	21.78	106.52	46	0/0	0
2015	RCB	491	14	40.92	147.45	117	2/1	2
2016	RCB	227	10	22.7	151.33	76	2/0	0
2017	RCB	200	9	22.22	122.7	77	1/0	0
2018	PBKS	368	11	40.89	146.03	104*	3/1	2
2019	PBKS	490	13	40.83	153.61	99*	4/0	1
2020	PBKS	288	7	41.14	137.14	99	3/0	0
2021	PBKS	193	10	21.44	125.32	46	0/0	1
OVERALL		4965	141	39.72	148.96	175*	31	16

Key Insights

Gayle crossed the milestone of 500 runs in a single season, three times in his IPL career. Find here the list of batters with the most 500+ runs in IPL seasons.

The strike rate column in his table is easily the most spectacular thing to look up on. Gayle’s RCB team-mate AB de Villiers is the only player with a better strike rate than the Caribbean opener (148.96), among the all-time top ten IPL run-scorers.

The Universal boss’s highest-ever IPL score came in the match against Pune Warriors in 2013 at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. The unbeaten 175 he scored that day is also the highest-ever individual score registered in a T20 game anywhere in the world.

Gayle also owns the record for hitting the most sixes (59) in a season. He rules the chart by occupying three out of the five spots.

With the overall runs tally of 4965, Gayle almost made it to the elite list of players with 5000+ IPL runs, which he thoroughly deserved. However, he was short of just 45 runs and went unsold in the mega IPL auction at the end of 2021.

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