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IPL: Top 5 players with most runs in a season without scoring a fifty
The Indian Premier League (IPL) is famous for many reasons starting with the Orange Cap and Purple Cap. When a player scores the highest runs and takes the highest wickets, the caps are given to them. The tournament is all about batters’ scoring runs effortlessly including centuries and half-centuries.
Players also have records of scoring 300+ runs in all the seasons of the tournament. Moreover, several players were top run scorers in IPL without scoring a fifty. In the entire tournament, the players haven’t reached the 50 mark but still managed to score more runs at a good average and strike rate.
Let’s look at 5 players who were top run scorers in IPL without scoring a fifty.
Jacques Kallis (KKR, 2013):
Jacques Kallis (Source: X)
In 2013, South Africa’s Jacques Kallis was one of the best players in IPL. Thus, he scored 311 runs in 16 innings at a strike rate of 96.58 and an average of 25.91 in IPL. Overall, his highest score was just 41 runs throughout the season. Even though he had a successful 2012 season, his 2013 season wasn’t that good. He still managed to touch the 300-run mark.
