Pat Cummins to Nicholas Pooran: Players to hit their first 3 balls for sixes in an IPL innings

Hitting sixes on the first 3 balls of an innings is a rare feat in IPL

So far, there are only 4 players in IPL history who have hit the first 3 balls of their innings for sixes. This just proves how incredibly rare the feat is.

Only 4 players have been able to achieve the massive feat

During the IPL 2021 eliminator between the Kolkata Knight Riders and the Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Narine came into bat with the former requiring 60 runs from 54 deliveries. He started his innings of 26 runs with 3 consecutive sixes. This knock helped the Kolkata-based franchise in eliminating Virat Kohli’s side from the tournament.

1. Sunil Narine

During a clash between the Lucknow Super Giants and the Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 2023 season of IPL, the explosive West Indies batter sent Abhishek Sharma to the cleaners. Pooran started his innings with 3 consecutive sixes off the left-arm spinner. His unbeaten knock of 44 runs from 13 deliveries massively helped the Lucknow-based franchise in chasing down the target of 183.

2. Nicholas Pooran

During a clash between the Chennai Super Kings and the Mumbai Indians in the 2024 season of IPL, Dhoni decimated Hardik Pandya with 3 consecutive sixes on the first three deliveries of his innings. The wicketkeeper-batter’s valuable cameo of 20 runs from just 4 deliveries helped the Chennai-based franchise in reaching the mammoth total of 206/4 after 20 overs.

3. MS Dhoni

During a clash between the Sunrisers Hyderabad and the Lucknow Super Giants in the 2025 season of IPL, Cummins started his innings with 3 sixes in a row to help the Hyderabad-based franchise in posting a big total of 190/9 in 20 overs. He first smashed 2 sixes on Shardul Thakur’s final 2 deliveries of the over before smashing Avesh Khan for a six on the first delivery of his over.