When IPL Makes You Question Everything You Know About Cricket

  The IPL has this insane ability to make you forget about every cricket record you thought was untouchable. I've been following the tournament since its first season, and every year during a LiveMatch , some player decides to completely rewrite the history books in the most spectacular way possible. My WhatsApp group exploded last season when we were watching that LiveMatch between RCB and KKR. Virat Kohli was closing in on becoming the first player to score 8,000 IPL runs, and the tension was unreal. Then he just casually flicked one to the boundary, and cricket Twitter went mental. These are the moments that make IPL special; records falling while you're still processing what just happened. The pace at which IPL records get broken is honestly ridiculous. In Test cricket, you might wait decades for someone to surpass a milestone. But during any random LiveMatch in the IPL, someone's smashing the fastest fifty record or hitting the most sixes in an innings. Chris Gayle...