Introduction:

The shortest cricket format, 20–20 overs, is used in the Indian Premier League (IPL), where each bowling inning lasts just 90 minutes. It is a troublesome errand for a player to hit 100 years in the restricted 20 overs and time period. 

Over the span of the Indian Premier league, a sum of 87 centuries have been scored, beginning from the absolute first game in the association’s set of experiences back in 2008 when Kolkata Knight Riders’ Brendon McCullum covered 158 off 73 against the Imperial Challengers Bangalore at the Chinnaswamy Arena.

RCB’s Virat Kohli holds the record for most hundreds — seven — four of which he scored in his record-run-heaping 2016 season where he scored 923 runs. Just beneath him is his previous RCB partner, Chris Gayle, who has six triple-figure scores to his name including his 175 against Pune Heroes India, which is likewise the most elevated any hitter has scored in a solitary IPL innings. With just 30 balls, it was also the fastest IPL hundred. David Warner, Shane Watson and KL Rahul have four hundreds each to their name while Stomach muscle de Villiers, Sanju Samson and Shubman Gill had three.

The year 2023 holds the record for the most hundreds scored in a single IPL season. In that year, nine players scored 12 hundreds, with Gill scoring three and Kohli scoring two. While it was in 2009 that the least hundreds were scored in a solitary season — two. The very first Indian player to score an IPL hundred was Manish Pandey, who did as such for RCB, thinking back to the 2009 season.

The group with the most number of centurions throughout the years is Punjab Lords — previously known as Rulers XI Punjab — with 12 hitters having scored 14 hundreds for the 2014 finalists. Seven batters contribute to the Rajasthan Royals’ 14 hundreds, which are distributed among their roster of players.

The seventeenth version of the IPL 2024 starts off with Chennai Super Rulers facilitating Regal Challengers Bangalore at the Mama Chidambaram Arena in Chennai on Friday, Walk 22. After defeating the Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad with the final ball, the Super Kings went on to win the IPL for the fifth time, setting a new record. MS Dhoni prudently utilized an unpracticed bowling line-up and assisted Chennai with coming out on top for the sought after championship interestingly beginning around 2021.

Throughout the long term, the IPL has seen some remarkable batting exhibitions. Hundreds of years aplenty in each version of the competition. Last year, the most number of hundreds of years in a solitary release of the IPL was enrolled. Twelve centuries were scored, surpassing the previous record of eight set in 2022.

Virat Kohli and Jos Buttler both hold the record for the most centuries in a single IPL season. Kohli won the 2016 Orange Cap with four centuries, while Buttler achieved the same feat in 2022. Kohli leads all IPL players with seven centuries, with Chris Gayle in second place with six.

In IPL 2023, Shubman Gill, who won the IPL Orange Cap, scored three breathtaking tons. Kohli additionally crushed two three-figure scores, while Yashasvi Jaiswal, Suryakumar Kumar, Cameron Green, Heinrich Klaasen, Venkatesh Iyer, Prabhsimran Singh, and Harry Stream indented up one century each.