IPL 2025: Nicholas Pooran is 1 six away from creating history, only 3 cricketers in the world have been able to make this great record

Lucknow Super Giants explosive batsman Nicholas Pooran will have a chance to make a special record in the Indian Premier League 2025 match against Delhi Capitals in Visakhapatnam on Monday. According to Indian time, this match will start at 7.30 pm.

Puran has scored 8642 runs in 358 innings of 384 matches played in T20 cricket, in which he has hit 599 sixes. As soon as he hits a six, he will become the fourth player to hit 600 or more sixes in T20 cricket. So far in T20 cricket, only Chris Gayle, Kieron Pollard and Andre Russell have been able to achieve this feat.

Most sixes in T20 cricket

Chris Gayle - 1056 sixes (455 innings)

Kieron Pollard - 908 sixes (617 innings)

Andre Russell - 733 sixes (466 innings)

Nicholas Pooran - 599 sixes (358 innings)

Pooran has scored 857 runs in 29 innings at an average of 42.85 and a strike rate of 175.97 while playing for Lucknow in the IPL. If Pooran scores 96 runs, he will surpass Marcus Stoinis (952 runs) and Quinton de Kock (901 runs) to come second in the list of players who scored the most runs in this tournament for the Lucknow team. KL Rahul (1410 runs) is at the top of this list.

Let us tell you that Puran was one of the five players who were retained by the Lucknow Super Giants team before the mega auction. The franchise had spent Rs 21 crore to retain him.

Lucknow's probable XI for the match against Delhi Capitals

Arshin Kulkarni, Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant (captain/wicketkeeper), Nicholas Puran, Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Ravi Bishnoi, Shamar Joseph.