IPL (Indian Premier League) 2024 has emerged as the season to remember for the batters and the one to forget for the bowlers across teams.
The ongoing 17th edition of the marquee tournament has already seen 1125 sixes - the most in a single edition of the Indian Premier League.
IPL 2024 has surpassed the 1124 mark that was registered in the 2023 edition. With 10 more games to be played in the season, one can expect the tally to swell up more in the days to follow.
Notably, Lucknow Super Giants' assistant coach believes that "ordinary bowling" is the reason behind such an extraordinary run-fest in the ongoing season.
"There’s been a lot of ordinary bowling and batsmen are just so good these days, they're taking advantage," Klusener had said during a post-match presser, earlier in the tournament.
"Maybe the batsmen have evolved a lot quicker than the bowlers in this competition.
"I haven't seen a lot of good death bowling in the competition and that's why teams have been able to take advantage. Sure, surfaces have been flat. I haven't seen a lot of swing either," he added.
IPL seasons to witness the most sixes
| IPL season | Total sixes |
| 2024 | 1125 |
| 2023 | 1124 |
| 2022 | 1062 |
| 2018 | 872 |
| 2019 | 784 |
Klusener feels that bowlers these days are not so adept at bowling yorkers and that they are overly reliant on bowling slower ones and other variations.
"It's easy to overcomplicate. If you run in and execute even four out of six yorkers. We don't see that anymore. We don't see that skill," he had said.
"We’re going to slower balls and a whole lot of other variations. That pure death bowling of yorkers, whether it's wide or straight, that's a skill that we don't see very often these days."
