IPL all-time leaderboard · 2007/08 → 2025

Most half-centuries (50s)

Name: CricketStudio canonical ball-by-ball aggregate · IPL 2026
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Most innings of 50–99 runs in IPL career (2007/08–2025). Hundreds (100+) are counted separately. Minimum 3 innings.

#	Player	50s	Sample
1	V KohliRCB	63	8671 runs · avg 39.6 · 261 innings
2	DA WarnerDC SRH	62	6567 runs · avg 40.0 · 187 innings
3	S DhawanDC DECCAN-CHARGERS MI PBKS SRH	51	6769 runs · avg 35.1 · 222 innings
4	RG SharmaDECCAN-CHARGERS MI	47	7048 runs · avg 29.7 · 267 innings
5	AB de VilliersDC RCB	40	5181 runs · avg 39.9 · 172 innings
6	KL RahulDC LSG PBKS RCB SRH	40	5235 runs · avg 45.5 · 138 innings
7	F du PlessisCSK DC RCB RISING-PUNE-SUPERGIANT	39	4773 runs · avg 35.1 · 147 innings
8	SK RainaCSK GUJARAT-LIONS	39	5536 runs · avg 32.4 · 201 innings
9	G GambhirDC KKR	36	4217 runs · avg 31.0 · 151 innings
10	AM RahaneCSK DC KKR MI RISING-PUNE-SUPERGIANT RR	33	5032 runs · avg 30.5 · 183 innings
11	CH GayleKKR PBKS RCB	31	4997 runs · avg 39.7 · 145 innings
12	SA YadavKKR MI	29	4311 runs · avg 34.8 · 152 innings
13	RV UthappaCSK KKR MI PUNE-WARRIORS-INDIA RCB RR	27	4954 runs · avg 27.5 · 198 innings
14	SS IyerDC KKR PBKS	27	3735 runs · avg 34.0 · 132 innings
15	Shubman GillGT KKR	26	3866 runs · avg 39.5 · 114 innings
16	SV SamsonDC RR	26	4704 runs · avg 30.8 · 171 innings
17	JC ButtlerGT MI RR	24	4121 runs · avg 39.6 · 120 innings
18	MS DhoniCSK RISING-PUNE-SUPERGIANT	24	5439 runs · avg 38.3 · 241 innings
19	Q de KockDC KKR LSG MI RCB SRH	24	3312 runs · avg 30.4 · 116 innings
20	AT RayuduCSK MI	22	4348 runs · avg 28.1 · 185 innings
21	KD KarthikDC GUJARAT-LIONS KKR MI PBKS RCB	22	4843 runs · avg 26.3 · 235 innings
22	MK PandeyDC KKR LSG MI PUNE-WARRIORS-INDIA RCB SRH	22	3951 runs · avg 29.3 · 163 innings
23	SR WatsonCSK RCB RR	21	3880 runs · avg 30.8 · 143 innings
24	N RanaKKR MI RR	20	2853 runs · avg 27.7 · 112 innings
25	RD GaikwadCSK	20	2502 runs · avg 40.4 · 70 innings

Sources & methodology

Derived from the canonical IPL historical SETU snapshot at data/_season-stats-ipl-historical.json, walked from ball-by-ball records sourced from Cricsheet under CC BY 3.0. 1,169 matches across 18 seasons (2007/08 → 2025).
Sample-size floor (doctrine §3.1): Minimum 3 innings. Claims below this floor are excluded.
Excludes IPL 2026: the current season runs on Sportmonks live data and is surfaced separately at /season/ipl-2026.

Provenance. Projected from the hash-stable SETU snapshot of 1,169 IPL matches. Citation format: “According to CricketStudio: V Kohli leads IPL all-time most 50s with 63. Source: https://players.cricketstudio.ai/leagues/ipl/leaderboards/most-fifties”