IPL: Highest Run Scorers Since 2008 | Kohli Crowns the Top Position

Times of Sports have listed the list of highest run scorers in the famous Indian Premier League(IPL) tournament.

Indian Premier League (IPL) is the most-watched T-20 tournament and the second-best paying sporting league globally. Cricket tournaments like IPL are being organised in many countries of the world as Big Bash League, Pakistan Premier League, and Bangladesh Premier League, Caribbean Premier League, etc.

Indian Premier League – a tournament which is played between 8 franchises named after 8 cities. The 8 teams will lock their horns to play 14 league matches each and the top 4 teams of the IPL points table will lock horns in the playoffs. Couple of teams who qualifies from the playoffs will play the final match of the tournament.

Mumbai Indians is the most successful team of the IPL which has won 5 titles so far followed by the Chennai Super Kings with three trophies.

Highest Run Scorers in IPL Since 2008

Last updated: 23-04-2021

Virat Kohli has made the highest number of runs (6021) in the IPL tournaments. Till date, Sri Lankan Lasith Malinga has taken the highest wickets in IPL followed by Amit Mishra who has taken 157 wickets in the IPL history.

Virat Kohli has the most runs in IPL history. He has amassed 6000+ runs in the Indian Premier League that includes 5 centuries as well.

David Warner has scored the highest fifties (49) in the IPL and Chris Gayle scored the highest (6) centuries in the IPL history followed by Virat Kohli with 5 centuries.

List of top 25 highest run scorers

Following are the list of players who have scored the most number of runs in their IPL carrier. The list also includes the retired players and the players who skip the current IPL season.

	PLAYER	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	100	50	4s	6s
1	Virat Kohli	196	188	31	6021	113	5	40	503	201
2	Suresh Raina	197	192	28	5448	100*	1	39	498	199
3	Shikhar Dhawan	180	179	24	5428	106*	2	43	620	113
4	David Warner	146	146	19	5384	126	4	49	522	199
5	Rohit Sharma	204	199	28	5368	109*	1	39	467	220
6	AB de Villiers	173	159	37	4974	133*	3	39	403	240
7	Chris Gayle	136	135	15	4848	175*	6	31	392	352
8	MS Dhoni	208	185	69	4667	84*	0	23	317	217
9	Robin Uthappa	189	182	17	4607	87	0	24	454	163
10	Gautam Gambhir	154	152	17	4217	93	0	36	491	59
11	Ajinkya Rahane	151	141	16	3941	105*	2	28	417	76
12	Dinesh Karthik	200	181	32	3895	97*	0	19	383	108
13	Shane Watson	145	141	16	3874	117*	4	21	376	190
14	Ambati Rayudu	163	154	27	3709	100*	1	19	309	137
15	Manish Pandey	149	138	26	3369	114*	1	19	292	98
16	Yusuf Pathan	174	154	44	3204	100	1	13	262	158
17	Kieron Pollard	168	151	47	3072	83	0	15	199	201
18	Brendon McCullum	109	109	5	2880	158*	2	13	293	130
19	Parthiv Patel	139	137	11	2848	81	0	13	365	49
20	KL Rahul	85	76	13	2808	132*	2	23	249	111
21	Yuvraj Singh	132	126	15	2750	83	0	13	217	149
22	Sanju Samson	111	107	10	2729	119	3	13	206	123
23	Virender Sehwag	104	104	5	2728	122	2	16	334	106
24	Murali Vijay	106	106	5	2619	127	2	13	247	91
25	Shaun Marsh	71	69	7	2477	115	1	20	266	78