IPL: Nicholas Pooran sets records with blistering knock against DC
What's the story
West Indies dasher Nicholas Pooran has completed 600 sixes in men's T20 cricket.
Pooran reached the landmark playing for Lucknow Super Giants against Delhi Capitals in the 2025 Indian Premier League (IPL) season in Visakhapatnam.
The Caribbean batter entered this club with his first maximum of the match. He smacked a scintillating fifty for the Super Giants.
Here are the key stats.
Knock
Pooran's blistering knock against DC
Pooran smacked as many as 7 sixes in his blistering knock against DC.
He joined Mitchell Marsh after LSG lost Aiden Markram in the Powerplay, with DC electing to field.
Pooran clubbed quite a few big hits in his 87-run partnership with Marsh. Mitchell Starc knocked him over in the 15th over.
The LSG dasher hammered a 30-ball 75 (6 fours and 7 sixes).
Milestone
Pooran joins these legends
Pooran (606 sixes) has become the fourth player to have struck 600-plus sixes in T20 cricket. Notably, all four players are West Indian.
Pooran has joined Chris Gayle (1,056), Kieron Pollard (908), and Andre Russell (733) on this elite list.
Pooran, who made his T20 debut in 2013, has completed 600 sixes in his 385th encounter.
Sixes
149 sixes for West Indies
As many as 149 of Pooran's T20 sixes have come in internationals, for the West Indies.
He has the most sixes for this side in T20Is, with Evin Lewis (124) and Gayle (124) trailing him.
Overall, Pooran has the fifth-most sixes in T20I cricket.
Besides representing the Windies, Pooran has played for a host of franchises in T20 cricket.
Information
Third-most sixes in CPL
Pooran has slammed the third-most sixes (176) in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), West Indies's premier T20 league. He is only behind Lewis (198) and Pollard (192).
Record
Pooran becomes third-highest run-scorer for LSG
With his latest knock against DC, Pooran became the highest run-scorer for LSG in the IPL. He overtook Quinton de Kock, who owns 901 runs.
With 932 runs at 44.38, Pooran is only behind KL Rahul (1,410) and Marcus Stoinis (952).
Pooran remains the only batter to have struck 60-plus sixes for LSG in the IPL. He has hammered 69 of those.
Stats
Pooran smashes his 52nd T20 fifty
Pooran's 75 took him to 8,717 runs in T20s at 29.05. His strike rate is 148.95.
Pooran struck his 52nd fifty (100s: 3).
Meanwhile, 1,844 of Pooran's T20 runs have come in the IPL at 32.92. His strike rate is 164-plus.
This was his 10th fifty in the IPL. He has launched 134 maximums.