Yashasvi Jaiswal and Urvil Patel jointly hold the record for the fastest fifty in IPL history — both reaching the milestone off just 13 balls. Jaiswal rewrote the record books at Eden Gardens in May 2023; Patel matched that feat at Chepauk three years later. Here’s the complete all-time list, the ball-by-ball story behind both 13-ball blitzes, and who has a genuine shot at breaking the record next season.
Quick Answer — Fastest Fifty in IPL History
Yashasvi Jaiswal (RR) and Urvil Patel (CSK) jointly hold the record — 13 balls each. Jaiswal’s came against KKR at Eden Gardens on May 11, 2023; Patel’s came against LSG at Chepauk on May 10, 2026. Joint second fastest: KL Rahul, Pat Cummins & Romario Shepherd — all off 14 balls. हिन्दी: यशस्वी जायसवाल और उर्विल पटेल ने सिर्फ 13 गेंदों में IPL इतिहास का सबसे तेज़ अर्धशतक लगाया।
Fastest Fifty in IPL History — Top 20 All-Time
| Rank | Batter | Team | Balls | Score | Opponent | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yashasvi Jaiswal | RR | 13 | 98* | KKR | Eden Gardens, Kolkata | May 11, 2023 |
| 1 | Urvil Patel | CSK | 13 | 65 | LSG | Chepauk, Chennai | May 10, 2026 |
| 3 | KL Rahul | PBKS | 14 | 51 | DC | PCA Stadium, Mohali | Apr 8, 2018 |
| 3 | Pat Cummins | KKR | 14 | 56* | MI | MCA Stadium, Pune | Apr 6, 2022 |
| 3 | Romario Shepherd | RCB | 14 | 53* | CSK | Chinnaswamy, Bengaluru | May 3, 2025 |
| 6 | Yusuf Pathan | KKR | 15 | 50+ | SRH | Eden Gardens, Kolkata | May 24, 2014 |
| 6 | Sunil Narine | KKR | 15 | 54 | RCB | Chinnaswamy, Bengaluru | May 7, 2017 |
| 6 | Nicholas Pooran | LSG | 15 | 62 | RCB | Chinnaswamy, Bengaluru | Apr 10, 2023 |
| 6 | Jake Fraser-McGurk | DC | 15 | 55 | SRH | Arun Jaitley, Delhi | Apr 20, 2024 |
| 6 | Jake Fraser-McGurk | DC | 15 | 84 | MI | Arun Jaitley, Delhi | Apr 27, 2024 |
| 6 | Vaibhav Suryavanshi | RR | 15 | 52 | CSK | ACA Stadium, Guwahati | Mar 30, 2026 |
| 12 | Suresh Raina | CSK | 16 | 50+ | Various | — | 2014 |
| 12 | Travis Head | SRH | 16 | 50+ | Various | — | 2024 |
| 12 | Abhishek Sharma | SRH | 16 | 50+ | MI | Rajiv Gandhi, Hyderabad | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 12 | Ishan Kishan | MI | 16 | 50+ | RCB | Wankhede, Mumbai | 2024 |
| 16 | Chris Gayle | RCB | 17 | 175* | PWI | Chinnaswamy, Bengaluru | Apr 23, 2013 |
| 16 | Suryakumar Yadav | MI | 17 | 52 | RCB | Wankhede, Mumbai | 2024 |
| 16 | Rajat Patidar | RCB | 17 | 50+ | MI | Wankhede, Mumbai | 2026 |
| 19 | Various | — | 18 | 50+ | — | — | Multiple |
| 20 | Various | — | 19 | 50+ | — | — | Multiple |
📊 What the Record List Reveals
Three patterns stand out when you look at this table properly. KKR keep appearing on the wrong end of these records — three of the top six fastest fifties came against them or with their players batting. The second pattern is venue: Chinnaswamy and Eden Gardens combined host six of the top-fifteen, both grounds consistently producing the flat, dry surfaces that power-hitters dream about. The third shift is generational. The 13-ball entries are all post-2023; KL Rahul’s 14-ball record that stood for nearly five years is now third on the list. Bowling attacks, field restrictions, and batter intent have all moved in the same direction across the last three seasons — faster, and faster still.
The 13-Ball Record Explained — Two Innings, Two Eras
Yashasvi Jaiswal, May 11, 2023 — Eden Gardens
Rajasthan Royals were chasing a modest 150 at Eden Gardens and Jaiswal had absolutely no interest in a gentle start. KKR stand-in skipper Nitish Rana gave himself the new ball — a decision he’d regret for a long time — and Jaiswal launched the very first delivery for a massive six over long-on, followed immediately by another six, this time a sweeping stroke behind square. Twenty-six runs came off that opening over alone.
He reached his fifty in just 13 balls, completing it in the third over off Shardul Thakur with a single, breaking the record jointly held by KL Rahul and Pat Cummins at 14 balls. He eventually finished on 98* off 47, hitting 13 fours and 5 sixes, as Jaiswal’s 2023 season ended with 625 runs — the most by any uncapped Indian player in a single IPL edition at that point. RR chased down 150 with nine wickets in hand and 41 balls to spare. It wasn’t a match, it was a demonstration.
Urvil Patel, May 10, 2026 — MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
This one came from nowhere. CSK were chasing 204 at Chepauk, 45 for 1 inside four overs, and Urvil Patel walked in at No. 3. He hadn’t been a household name before this evening. What followed was as clean a display of power-hitting as you’ll see in a T20 game: seven sixes and a four in his first 13 deliveries, the fifty coming up off ball 13 to equal Jaiswal’s record. He went six, six, six, six, six, four, six off seven consecutive deliveries at one stage — numbers that look like a typo until you check the scorecard twice.
He was eventually out for 65 off 23 balls with two fours and eight sixes, leaving CSK on 126 for 2 in 9.2 overs, and they completed their first successful chase of 180-plus in 15 IPL attempts since 2019. After reaching his fifty, Patel pulled a note from his pocket that read “This is for you, Papa” — one of the more human moments in a tournament that can feel like pure statistics at times.
🏆 The Record in Context
13 balls is also the joint-eighth fastest fifty in all of T20 cricket. Nepal’s Dipendra Singh Airee holds the overall T20 record — nine balls against Mongolia at the 2023 Asian Games. Yuvraj Singh’s 12-ball fifty against England at the 2007 T20 World Cup remains the fastest in T20 internationals. The IPL record puts Jaiswal and Patel in genuinely rare global company.
The Three Holders of the Joint 14-Ball Record
Between the 13-ball entries and the 15-ball cluster sits a three-way tie spanning seven years of IPL cricket. Each 14-ball fifty came from a completely different type of batter, in a completely different match situation.
KL Rahul, April 8, 2018 (PBKS vs DC, Mohali): Rahul was in the form of his life that IPL season and this knock set the benchmark. Chasing 167 for Kings XI Punjab against Delhi, he reached 51 in 14 balls with six fours and four sixes at a strike rate of 318.75. His record stood untouched for four full years.
Pat Cummins, April 6, 2022 (KKR vs MI, Pune): A fast bowler stealing the fastest-fifty record from the batters. Cummins came in lower in the order against Mumbai Indians, found a flat Pune surface, and smashed 56* off 15 total balls — four fours and six sixes — helping KKR win with four overs remaining. It’s still the most unlikely entry on this list by role.
Romario Shepherd, May 3, 2025 (RCB vs CSK, Bengaluru): Shepherd arrived with RCB needing a big finish and delivered one of the most violent closing overs in recent IPL memory. He hit 33 off one Khaleel Ahmed over, reached 53* off 14 balls with a strike rate of 378.57, and powered RCB to 213/5 — a total they defended by two runs in a last-ball thriller. RCB scored 54 runs in those final two overs, the most by any team across the 19th and 20th overs in any IPL innings at that point.
Pre-2020 Record Holders
- KL Rahul — 14 balls (2018, PBKS opener vs DC)
- Yusuf Pathan — 15 balls (2014, KKR middle order vs SRH)
- Sunil Narine — 15 balls (2017, sent up the order as surprise weapon vs RCB)
- Suresh Raina — 16 balls (2014, CSK middle order)
- Chris Gayle’s 17-ball fifty came inside his 175* — still IPL’s highest score ever
2022–2026 Record Holders
- Yashasvi Jaiswal — 13 balls (2023, RR opener vs KKR)
- Urvil Patel — 13 balls (2026, CSK No. 3 vs LSG)
- Pat Cummins — 14 balls (2022, KKR — a bowler doing this)
- Romario Shepherd — 14 balls (2025, RCB finisher vs CSK)
- Jake Fraser-McGurk — 15 balls twice in a week (2024, DC opener)
Fraser-McGurk’s Unique Double — and What Vaibhav Suryavanshi Adds
Fraser-McGurk is the only batter in IPL history to score two 15-ball fifties. His first came against Sunrisers Hyderabad on April 20, 2024, at the Arun Jaitley Stadium; his second came against Mumbai Indians at the same ground just seven days later. In his debut IPL season, he finished with 385 runs from 15 matches at a strike rate above 230. Replicating a 15-ball fifty once is partly luck and partly talent; doing it twice in a week at the same ground, against two different bowling attacks, is something closer to a method.
Then there is Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, who adds a dimension the table alone can’t capture. He smashed a 15-ball fifty for Rajasthan Royals against Chennai Super Kings at the ACA Stadium in Guwahati on March 30, 2026, finishing with 52 off 17 at a strike rate of 305.88. He was 14 years old. The record for youngest batter on this list isn’t just a biographical footnote — it signals that a generation of Indian hitters is treating extraordinary strike rates as a baseline expectation, not an occasional peak.
Most Surprising Entry in the Top Twenty
⚡ The One Nobody Saw Coming
Pat Cummins scoring the joint second-fastest fifty in IPL history remains arguably the most remarkable entry on this entire list. Known primarily as a fast bowler and Australia’s Test captain, Cummins walked in at Pune in 2022 against Mumbai Indians and smashed 56* with six sixes and four fours, helping KKR win with four overs to spare. Rahul’s record had survived for four years. It took a man whose job description says nothing about batting to break it first.
Fastest Fifty by Season — IPL 2013 to 2026
| Season | Batter | Team | Balls | Opponent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Chris Gayle | RCB | 17 | PWI |
| 2014 | Yusuf Pathan | KKR | 15 | SRH |
| 2017 | Sunil Narine | KKR | 15 | RCB |
| 2018 | KL Rahul | PBKS | 14 | DC |
| 2022 | Pat Cummins | KKR | 14 | MI |
| 2023 | Yashasvi Jaiswal | RR | 13 | KKR |
| 2024 | Jake Fraser-McGurk | DC | 15 | SRH / MI |
| 2025 | Romario Shepherd | RCB | 14 | CSK |
| 2026 | Urvil Patel | CSK | 13 | LSG |
Who Can Break the 13-Ball Record?
Three names, three genuine arguments — and none of them are wishful thinking.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi is the name everyone reaches for first. He hit a 15-ball fifty at 14 years old in IPL 2026. The trajectory from 15 balls at that age to 13 balls at 17 or 18 is not an unrealistic projection — it’s just arithmetic applied to intent and physical development. He hits through the line as hard as anyone in Indian cricket right now, and he has years of powerplay batting in front of him. The risk is a slow, two-paced pitch catching him when his footwork against quality swing isn’t yet reliable enough to compensate.
Jake Fraser-McGurk is the second name worth watching. He’s done 15 balls twice at the same ground against two different attacks. Once a batter has calibrated that level of intent to a specific pitch — Arun Jaitley’s true bounce and short straight boundary — they tend to return to it. The Arun Jaitley surface suits his bottom-hand, drive-through-the-line approach as well as any pitch in the country. If he gets a similar run chase in the powerplay there, 12 or 13 balls is within range.
Abhishek Sharma rounds out the three. He’s already on this list with a 16-ball fifty against Mumbai Indians in 2024. He’s in his mid-twenties with a settled IPL top-order role at SRH, the Rajiv Gandhi ground in Hyderabad producing some of the highest-scoring games in recent IPL memory, and a mindset that goes hard at the very first ball regardless of match situation. The combination of ground, role, and attitude is right.
The 13-ball record feels closer to breaking than most people realise — not because I’m being optimistic about the next generation, but because the conditions that produced both 13-ball innings replicate regularly. A flat surface, a modest or large chase that forces going hard from ball one, and a captain handing the new ball to the wrong bowler. That combination happens multiple times every IPL season. Suryavanshi is the obvious pick, but I’d actually track Fraser-McGurk more closely. He’s done 15 balls twice at the same ground in the same week. Batters who repeat extreme performances at a specific venue tend to understand something about it that others don’t — and that understanding compounds.
The one thing this list tells me that doesn’t get enough attention: this has quietly become an opener’s record far more than a finisher’s record. Cummins and Shepherd came lower in the order, but they found spread fields. The genuine 13-ball territory tends to happen in the powerplay against six fielders inside the circle, with gaps available on every side. That’s where the next broken record will come from — an opener, a flat pitch, overs one to three, and a captain making a bowling decision they’ll regret.
Fastest Fifty in IPL History — FAQs
Who holds the record for the fastest fifty in IPL history?
Yashasvi Jaiswal and Urvil Patel jointly hold the record — both reached their fifty off 13 balls. Jaiswal’s came for Rajasthan Royals against Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens on May 11, 2023. Patel’s came for Chennai Super Kings against Lucknow Super Giants at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on May 10, 2026.
Who is second on the fastest fifty list in IPL?
KL Rahul, Pat Cummins, and Romario Shepherd all hold the joint second-fastest IPL fifty — 14 balls each. Rahul scored his for Kings XI Punjab against Delhi in April 2018; Cummins for KKR against Mumbai Indians in April 2022; Shepherd for RCB against CSK in May 2025.
Who scored the fastest fifty in IPL 2026?
Urvil Patel of Chennai Super Kings scored the fastest fifty in IPL 2026 — 13 balls against Lucknow Super Giants at Chepauk on May 10, 2026. His knock of 65 off 23 balls helped CSK chase 204 successfully. Vaibhav Suryavanshi also scored a 15-ball fifty for Rajasthan Royals against CSK on March 30, 2026 in Guwahati, making him the youngest batter to appear on the IPL fastest fifties list.
What is the fastest fifty in T20 cricket overall?
The fastest T20 fifty belongs to Nepal’s Dipendra Singh Airee — nine balls against Mongolia at the 2023 Asian Games. In T20 internationals, Yuvraj Singh’s 12-ball fifty against England at the 2007 ICC T20 World Cup is the benchmark. The IPL record of 13 balls puts both Jaiswal and Patel at joint-eighth fastest across all T20 cricket globally.
Can anyone break the 13-ball IPL fifty record?
Yes, and the conditions exist for it regularly. The most likely candidates are Vaibhav Suryavanshi, whose 15-ball fifty at 14 years old in IPL 2026 already places him on the list, Jake Fraser-McGurk, who has scored two 15-ball fifties and is calibrated specifically to flat Delhi surfaces, and Abhishek Sharma, who already holds a 16-ball fifty and bats in Hyderabad’s high-scoring environment. Any flat powerplay surface with a large chase to motivate aggressive intent from ball one is the recipe.
Bottom Line
The fastest fifty in IPL history sits at 13 balls, jointly held by Yashasvi Jaiswal and Urvil Patel — and it’s a record that keeps attracting company at the 14- and 15-ball mark as the league produces more destructive openers every season. Jaiswal’s 2023 Eden Gardens innings was the definitive statement of his generation; Patel’s 2026 Chepauk blitz showed the record is genuinely accessible to any power-hitter who gets the right surface and the right over. Whether Suryavanshi or Fraser-McGurk gets to 12 balls first is the conversation that shapes the next two IPL seasons of batting debate. Keep an eye on the IPL 2026 Orange Cap race — the batters chasing that tend to be precisely the ones motivated to go harder, earlier.
