Sanju Samson Creates History, Becomes 1st Player In The World To...

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Last Updated:May 20, 2025, 22:06 IST

The ongoing IPL 2025 lucifer betwixt Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals astatine Arun Jaitley Stadium successful Delhi is Samson's 149th IPL lucifer for the Jaipur-based franchise.

Sanju Samson becomes archetypal subordinate to people 4000 runs successful IPL for RR. (Picture Credit: Sportzpics)

Sanju Samson is starring Rajasthan Royals successful IPL 2025, and connected Tuesday, May 20, during his team’s past league lucifer of the ongoing season, helium entered his sanction successful the past books by becoming the archetypal subordinate successful the satellite to people 4000 runs successful IPL for Rajasthan Royals. The lucifer betwixt CSK and RR successful Delhi connected Tuesday is Samson’s 149th lucifer for the Jaipur-based franchise, and helium present has 4000 runs to his name.

The wicketkeeper-batter from Kerala needed 15 runs against CSK to implicit 4000 IPL for RR, and helium achieved the feat by hitting Ravichandran Ashwin for a six connected the 3rd shot of the seventh implicit of the 188-run chase.

Most runs for RR successful IPL

• Sanju Samson – 4001*
• Jos Buttler – 3055
• Ajinkya Rahane – 2810
• Shane Watson – 2372
• Yashasvi Jaiswal – 2166
• Riyan Parag – 1563
• Rahul Dravid – 1276
• Steve Smith – 1070
• Yusuf Pathan – 1011
• Shimron Hetmyer – 953

Samson is wide the seventh batter successful the satellite to deed 4000 oregon much runs for 1 squad successful the IPL.

Most runs for 1 squad successful IPL

• Virat Kohli (RCB) – 8509
• Rohit Sharma (MI) – 5758
• MS Dhoni (CSK) – 4865
• Suresh Raina (CSK) – 4687
• AB De Villiers (RCB) – 4491
• David Warner (SRH) – 4014
• Sanju Samson (RR) – 4001*

In the IPL, Samson wide has 4679 runs to his sanction successful 177 matches. Apart from 149 matches for RR, helium has besides played 28 matches for Delhi Capitals and scored 677 runs.

If successful the ongoing match, Samson manages to deed astatine slightest 2 sixes, past helium volition go the 5th Indian batter aft Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav and MS Dhoni to deed 350 oregon much sixes successful T20s.

In 459 T20 matches played truthful far, Rohit has hammered 542 sixes, which is the astir by an Indian batter, and helium is followed by Kohli, who has 434 sixes to his sanction successful 410 matches; Suryakumar (368 sixes successful 321 matches); and Dhoni (350 sixes successful 404 T20s).

Most sixes successful T20s (Indian batters)

• Rohit Sharma – 542
• Virat Kohli – 434
• Suryakumar Yadav – 368
• MS Dhoni – 350
• Sanju Samson – 349*
• KL Rahul – 331
• Suresh Raina – 325
• Hardik Pandya – 293
• Shreyas Iyer – 274
• Robin Uthappa – 267

The wide grounds of hitting the astir sixes successful T20s is held by Chris Gayle. The erstwhile West Indies skipper and opening batter played 463 matches during his 17-year-long T20 vocation and smacked 1056 maximums. He is the lone subordinate successful the satellite to deed much than 1000 sixes.

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