Urvil Patel’s six-hitting carnage: The 200-sixes-a-day routine, Dhoni’s special bat and ‘mai dhamaka karunga’ promise
Urvil Patel’s explosive 65 off 23 balls against Lucknow Super Giants announced the arrival of CSK’s newest six-hitting sensation. The wicketkeeper-batter smashed six sixes within his first eight balls, rewrote IPL records. Backed by advice, and even a specially weighted bat from MS Dhoni, Urvil’s power-hitting philosophy is shaped by a gruelling routine of 200 practice sixes a day.
NEW DELHI: First ball: single. Next eight balls: six sixes, 41 runs, and IPL history rewritten. On a Sunday night at Chepauk, there was no easing into the innings for Urvil Patel, only immediate destruction.
With Chennai Super Kings chasing 204 against Lucknow Super Giants in their IPL 2026 match, the 26-year-old walked in after Sanju Samson’s dismissal in the fourth over. What followed was one of the most explosive starts in IPL history. Then three consecutive maximums off Avesh Khan.
Digvesh Rathi disappeared into the stands repeatedly. Mohammed Shami was not spared either. In the blink of an eye, Urvil had rocketed to a 13-ball fifty - the joint-fastest in IPL history.
And buried within that mayhem was another extraordinary record. Urvil became the first batter in IPL history to smash six sixes within the first eight balls of an innings. By the time he had faced just eight deliveries, he had already raced to 41 not out comfortably eclipsing the previous highest score after eight balls in IPL history, which stood at 33.
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