Shubman Gill cut loose at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Sunday, making 64 off 37 balls for Gujarat Titans against Chennai Super Kings in Match 66 of IPL 2026. The innings carried him past 6,000 runs in T20 cricket and beyond the 200-sixes mark in the format.
Gill struck seven fours and three sixes in an innings that set the tone early for Gujarat, who made 62 in the powerplay. He had 35 runs off 18 balls in that phase and reached his fifty in 23 deliveries, then hit two sixes in the seventh over off Noor Ahmad to keep the pressure on Chennai.
The knock was built around a 125-run opening stand with Sai Sudharsan, their second century partnership against Chennai Super Kings. The pair have now shared 10 century stands in 46 T20 innings, the joint-highest tally in men's T20 cricket. For Gill, it was also his sixth fifty of IPL 2026, a season in which he has already gone past 600 runs and entered the final stretch with 616 from 12 matches at an average of 47.38.
By the end of the innings, Gill’s T20 record stood at 6,028 runs and 201 sixes from 185 innings, with an average of 37.67, a strike rate of 140.84, six centuries and 38 half-centuries. He has also hit 595 fours in the format, while his India record includes 26 sixes in 36 T20 internationals. In the IPL, he is now one shy of 150 sixes, with 149, alongside 429 fours and 4,482 runs in 131 matches at an average of 40.37 and a strike rate of 141.47.
The numbers push Gill further into rare company. He became the third-fastest Indian batter to reach 6,000 T20 runs by innings taken, doing it in 185 innings, behind KL Rahul on 166 and just after Virat Kohli on 184. Against Chennai Super Kings, he has now scored 562 runs in 18 IPL matches at an average of 33.05, with four fifties and one century. For Gujarat, his returns have been stronger still: 3,065 runs in 73 IPL matches at an average of 46.43, with 22 fifties and four centuries. On Sunday, though, the story was simpler than the totals. Gill gave Gujarat a fast start, and Chennai never quite pulled the game back to where they wanted it.
