Phil Salt smashes biggest six of IPL 2025 against GT

Phil Salt smashes 105m six to Mohammed Siraj at Chinnaswamy.

  • Published - April 2, 2025 18:20:05
  • Updated - April 2, 2025 18:21:13
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Phil Salt, the opener of the Royal Challengers Bangalore, smashes the biggest six of the IPL 2025 in match no. 14 against the Gujarat Titans at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru. With a 105m six off Mohammed Siraj, Salt matches Travis Head for the longest six of IPL 2025.

Phil Salt smashes the biggest six of IPL 2025 against GT

In the fourth over against the Gujarat Titans, Phil Salt smashes a joint biggest six of the IPL 2025. He struck the 3rd ball of Mohammed Siraj over to 105m from the middle of his bat, and it landed on the roof of Chinnaswammy. However, Siraj took revenge on the very next ball by clean bowling the batter with a fullish ball.

Biggest sixes of IPL 2025 till now 

Player  Distance Opponent
Phil Salt 105m GT
Travis Head 105m RR
Aniket Verma 102m DC
Tristan Stubbs 98m LSG
Sherfane Rutherford 97m PBKS
Nicholas Pooran 97m SRH

About RCB vs GT

Shubman Gill, captain of the Gujarat Titans, won the toss and elected to bowl first at the good batting wicket of M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 14th game of the IPL 2025.

RCB Playing XI: Phil Salt, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Tim David, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal

GT Playing XI: Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler, M. Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Arshad Khan, Rashid Khan, Sai Kishore, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma

Gujarat Titans bowlers have dominated the power play. Arshad Khan quickly removes Virat Kohli on 7 runs off 6 balls, and Mohammed Siraj, who used to play for RCB till last season, dismissed two batters, Devdutt Padikkal and Phil Salt, in the first six overs of the game. Captain Rajat Patidar also lost his wicket to Ishant Sharma on 12 runs.

However, Jitesh Sharma and Liam Livingstone built up a good partnership. Jitesh scored 33 runs off 21 balls before getting out to Sai Kishore. In the final four, Livingstone shifted his gears and scored 54 runs off 40 balls. David also smashed some boundaries in the last over. He put up a total of 32 runs in 18 balls before getting out on the final ball of the inning to Prasidh Krishna. RCB scored 169 runs in their 20 overs.