IPL 2023: Rinku Singh became the sixer king of this season while chasing, leaving Suryakumar behind and also broke Andre Russell’s record

KKR lower-order batsman Rinku Singh has impressed everyone with his performances in IPL 2023. Rinku Singh has shown that he can not only bat aggressively, but also has the ability to take the innings forward if required, understanding the conditions.

Rinku Singh’s similar innings was seen against CSK when three KKR batsmen were dismissed for 33 runs. Rinku Singh played a very good innings for the team in this situation and eased the way to victory. During this innings, he also broke these records of Suryakumar Yadav and Andre Russell.

Rinku Singh broke Suryakumar Yadav’s record

In the 61st match of IPL 2023, Rinku Singh scored an important 54 off 43 balls with 3 sixes and 4 fours against CSK, which was also his third half-century this season. At the same time, he shared a 99-run partnership with captain Nitish Rana for the fourth wicket and made the way to the team’s victory easier. With the help of 3 sixes in his innings, he left Suryakumar Yadav behind. Now in this season of IPL, he became the batsman who hit the most sixes while chasing.

While chasing in this league, Rinku Singh has hit a total of 18 sixes so far and he has pushed Suryakumar Yadav to the second number who has hit 17 sixes while chasing this season so far. On the other hand, Nicholas Pooran is in fourth place with 16 sixes as well as Faf Duplessis with 14 sixes.

Batsmen with most sixes while chasing in IPL 2023

18 – Rinku Singh
17 – Surya Kumar Yadav
16- Nicholas Pooran
14 – Faf Duplessis

Rinku Singh came out ahead of Andre Russell

Rinku Singh has so far scored 407 runs while playing for KKR this season. After this, he also became the highest run-getter batsman batting at number five or below in any one season of IPL. He broke Andre Russell’s record and went ahead of him as well as came at number four. Dinesh Karthik holds the record for most runs batting at number 5 and below in the IPL this season, and he did this feat in 2018 by scoring 472 runs.

Most runs by batsmen batting at number 5 and below in a single season of IPL

472 – Dinesh Karthik, 2018 (15 innings)
437 – David Miller, 2022 (14)
419 – Kieron Pollard, 2013 (17)
407 – Rinku Singh 2023 (13)
406 – Andre Russell 2019 (11)