Longest Six of IPL 2023: CSK’s Shivam Dube hits mammoth 111-meter 6 vs RCB at M Chinnaswamy Stadium

Dixit Bhargav | 17/04/2023
Longest Six of IPL 2023: CSK's Shivam Dube hits mammoth 111-meter 6 vs RCB at M Chinnaswamy Stadium

Chennai Super Kings batter Shivam Dube appeared to be a on a mission to hit gargantuan sixes in Indian Premier League 2023 Match 24 against Royal Challengers Bangalore in Bengaluru tonight.

Coming in to bat at No. 4 right before the halfway mark, Dube scored a sixth T20 half-century comprising two fours and five sixes to put on display an absolute big-hitting spectacle.

It was only on the fifth delivery that he faced that Dube hit Royal Challengers all-rounder Glenn Maxwell (1/28) for a towering six which saw the ball hitting the roof at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.

Shivam Dube hits mammoth 111-meter six at M Chinnaswamy Stadium

It wasn’t much long before Dube hit the second-longest six of IPL 2023. Only the eighth delivery that he was facing, the left-handed batter thwacked a mammoth six off Bangalore pacer Harshal Patel (1/36).

Although it is not always easy to hit such a massive six off a full-toss, Dube managed to dispatch the ball way into the stands over the long-on region. Replays confirmed that the 29-year old player had hit a 111-metre six.

Not stopping at that, Dube subsequently hit sixes of the remaining pacers namely Mohammed Siraj (1/30), Vijaykumar Vyashak (1/62) and Wayne Parnell (1/48) to end up scoring 52 (27) at a strike rate of 192.59. In what was his fourth IPL half-century, it was brought to an end after Dube hit a Parnell delivery straight to Siraj at deep mid-wicket.

Longest Six of IPL 2023

It is worth a mention that Dube’s 111-meter six is only second to RCB captain Faf du Plessis‘ 115-meter six against Lucknow Super Giants at the same venue exactly a week ago. Having already hit a 102-meter six against Super Giants, Dube now has two of the three biggest sixes of IPL 2023.

Other than du Plessis and Dube, the likes of Rinku Singh (101 meter) and Venkatesh Iyer (101 meter), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (101) and Nehal Wadhera (101) have also hit sixes covering a distance of more than 100 meter this season.

Post Edited By: Dixit Bhargav
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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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