Delhi Capitals vs Gujarat Titans: Gujarat Titans star batsman Jos Buttler on Wednesday (April 8) Delhi Capitals Created a storm with his stormy batting in the IPL 2026 match against at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. Butler played an inning of 52 runs in 27 balls, in which he hit 3 fours and 5 sixes and along with this made many special records.
Most sixes in T-20 cricket
By hitting the fifth six of his innings, Butler completed 600 sixes in T-20 cricket and became the fifth player in the world to do so. Before him, only Chris Gayle, Kieron Pollard, Andre Russell and Nicholas Pooran have done this. He left Alex Hales (595) behind in terms of hitting most sixes in T-20 for England.
Andre Russell’s equal
Butler has jointly reached third place in terms of hitting five or more sixes in an innings in the IPL. By achieving this feat for the 14th time, he equaled former all-rounder Andre Russell. Now only Chris Gayle and AB de Villiers are ahead of him in this list.
Other players to do so
Buttler has become the second non-opening batsman in the history of IPL to hit five or more sixes in an IPL innings. Earlier, Suresh Raina had done this in the second qualifier against Punjab in IPL 2014 played at Wankhede Stadium.
It is noteworthy that after being invited to bat first, Gujarat got its first blow on the total score of 19 runs. After this, Butler added 60 runs for the second wicket with captain Shubman Gill, of which 52 runs came from his bat.
