Rajasthan Royals could not reach the playoffs but Yashasvi Jaiswal batted brilliantly this year. Jaiswal became the highest run -scorer for Rajasthan in IPL 2025. Jaiswal scored 559 runs in 14 matches this season. Rajasthan defeated Chennai by 6 wickets in CSK vs. RR in the 62nd match of IPL 2025.
Jaiswal could not score a big score in this match and was dismissed for 36 runs. Although Jaiswal could score only 36 runs, he showed a wonderful feat to make a great record during his short innings. Let’s take a look at what record they have made
The first batsman to do such a feat
In this match, Jaiswal scored 36 runs from 19 balls. He started his innings by hitting a four off the first ball of the innings and he did this for the fifth time in IPL 2025. In IPL 2023 too, he has done wonders with a four off the first ball of the innings. Jaiswal has done this unique feat at the beginning of the innings five times in the IPL so far. With this, Jaiswal has become the first batsman in the world to achieve this feat twice in an IPL season.
The most fours on the first ball in IPL
5 – Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2025
5 – Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2023
5 – Virender Sehwag, 2014
4 – Virat Kohli, 2023
4 – Sunil Naren, 2018
4 – Phil Salat, 2025
In addition, this was the 13th time when Yashasvi Jaiswal hit the first ball of the IPL innings. He has strengthened his record as the batsman to do so most times.
Apart from this, Yashasvi has also made a record of the most fours on the first ball in the IPL. Robin Uthappa has maintained his dominance by 10 times, Quinton de Kock 11 times, Virat Kohli 11 times and Jayasvi achieved this feat 13 times.
Most sixes
Not only this, Jaiswal has become the second batsman in the world to hit the most sixes during the powerplay in an IPL season. By doing this, he has equaled the record of the great Sanath Jayasuriya and has also broken the record of explosive batsman like Chris Gayle. Jaiswal has hit a total of 22 sixes in power play so far in a season of IPL.
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Most sixes batsmen
29 – Abhishek Sharma (2024)
22 – Yashasvi Jaiswal (2025)*
22 – Sanath Jayasuriya (2008)
22 – Travis Head (2024)
21 – Chris Gayle (2015)
21 – Virat Kohli (2024)
21-Jake Fraser-Macgark (2024)
20 – Adam Gilchrist (2009)
20 – Chris Gayle (2011)
20 – KL Rahul (2018)
20 – Jose Butler (2022)
Talking about the match, CSK, batting first, scored 187 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs, after which Rajasthan Royals achieved the target at the loss of 4 wickets in 17.1 overs. Vaibhav Suryavanshi scored 57 off 33 balls, while Sanju Samson was dismissed for 41 runs. At the same time, Akash Madwal, who took three wickets for Rajasthan Royals, was given the Man of the Match award for his superb bowling.
