The IPL 2023 has kick-started with a bang with the first four matches being run-fest, seeing a spate of fours and sixes being hit across the park in the high-scoring encounters.
The IPL 2023 has created a big hype this year, more than it was in the past few seasons: the fans are excited to welcome the players and watch them play in their home stadiums as the IPL returns to its traditional home-and-away format for the first time since 2019.
Pitches across most of the venues will be batting-friendly for at least the first half of the season before it starts to tire out.
This will mean that sixes will be galore in the IPL 2023 and there are a few newcomers in the IPL who could light up the tournament with their gigantic hits.
Here are 2 batters who are ready to hit some jaw-dropping sixes in IPL 2023:
Kyle Mayers
Over the past couple of years, West Indies opener Kyle Mayers has gained a reputation for being a powerful striker of the ball. Even his West Indies teammate Rovman Powell, who is also known for his clean-striking and hitting big sixes, conceded that Mayers is even stronger than him when he was talking to the commentators during the Lucknow-Delhi match.
And Mayers showed why: against the Capitals, Kyle Mayers smashed 7 breath-taking sixes in his knock of 73 runs, each more astonishing than the other.
In his T20I career, Mayers has smashed 29 sixes in 23 innings, and overall, in his T20 career, the left-hander has walloped 113 sixes in 105 innings.
Ayush Badoni
In the same LSG-DC match in Lucknow, after the Mayers show, young Ayush Badoni provided a glimpse of his talent and ability. The 23-year-old youngster cracked 2 sixes and a four to finish with 18 off just 7, one of those sixes going deep into the stands.
Despite being just a youngster and very inexperienced at the IPL level, the LSG management headed by Andy Flower and Gautam Gambhir have trusted him with and given the responsibility of finishing the innings, which Badoni did superbly in this particular game.
The Delhi-born batsman had made his IPL debut last year for LSG and was impressive in the cameos he played coming lower down the order. On his debut match itself, against GT last year, the slim-looking Badoni smashed 54 runs with some sparking sixes at the scenic Wankhede. After that, though, Badoni didn’t get a lot of chances to bat for a long time.
