Top 10 Batsmen with the Highest Strike Rates in PSL (2025)

In the Pakistan Super League (PSL), several batsmen have demonstrated their striking capabilities with the bat. Check out a list of the top 10 batsmen with the highest strike rate ever in the PSL, including figures from the recent 2024 edition of the tournament, meaning it’s as up-to-date as it possibly can be, with all the latest PSL matches included. 

1. Luke Ronchi

Luke Ronchi, who played two seasons of the PSL from 2018 to 2020, has the highest batting strike rate in PSL history (166.12). In 31 matches, he scored 1020 runs, including 10 fifties. This includes a total of 166 boundaries with 116 fours and 50 sixes. Ronchi's best came in PSL 3, when he was the tournament's highest run-getter with 435 runs at a strike rate of over 182. That year, he also scored a half-century off just 19 balls, the second fastest in the history of the PSL. 

2. Kieron Pollard

Second on the list is Kieron Pollard, who has represented three different teams in the PSL since 2014 - Karachi Kings, Multan Sultans and Peshawar Zalmi. In 48 innings, the West Indian T20 globetrotter has amassed 1149 runs at an average of 38.30 and a strike rate of 162.28. Over those seven seasons, Pollard has hit 79 boundaries and 77 sixes, with the fact that he’s hit almost as any maximums as he has fours being a testament to the brutal power of the big Trinidadian.  These days you’re unlikely to see him bat any higher than number six but no game is over for the batting side while he’s still at the crease. 

3. Asif Ali

Asif Ali, who represented Peshawar Zalmi in PSL 2024, is third on the list with a strike rate of 156.51. Since the PSL's inception in 2016, the right-handed batsman has scored 1202 runs in 72 innings with the help of 70 boundaries and 90 maximums. Ali previously represented Islamabad United. 

We’re unlikely to see Ali add to his 79 appearances for Pakistan but he carries on scoring a lightning-fast rate in the PSL. 

4. Saim Ayub 

Ayub made his PSL debut when he was just 18 and few could have predicted he’d have the type of impact he’s had when he first appeared as a skinny kid who rarely cleared the boundary. 

But appearances can be deceiving and since then he’s gone about his business in double-quick time, amassing 800 runs in 30 innings at a strike rate of 150.94, including 77 fours and 41 sixes. 

He’s represented both Peshawar Zalmi and Quetta Gladiators in his four-year career in the PSL and given he’s just 24, the smart money is on him breaking plenty of records along the way. 

5. Colin Munro

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Fourth on the list is Islamabad United batsman Colin Munro. Among the most hard-hitting batsmen from New Zealand, Munro has played 47 matches in the PSL to date, accumulating 1417 runs at an average of 32.95 and a strike rate of 150.58. The southpaw has hit 131 fours and 71 sixes. 

Like with Ali, the ship may have sailed in terms of his international career at the age of 37 but the South-African-born top-order batsman continues to tear bowling attacks apart in the PSL. 

6. Azam Khan

Since making his PSL debut in 2019, wicketkeeper-batsman Azam Khan has amassed 1140 runs at an average of 25.33 and a strike rate of 146.90. His PSL innings have been laced with 100 fours and 63 sixes. The 26-year-old Islamabad United batsman previously played for the Gladiators and as we know, is the son of the great Pakistani keeper/batsman Moin Khan.

His big-hitting has seen him also land contracts to play in the CPL and BPL but it’s been in the PSL that he’s really impressed with that sky-high strike rate.   

7. Colin Ingram

Colin Ingram played three seasons of the PSL from 2018 to 2021, representing Islamabad United and Karachi Kings. In 37 matches, the southpaw scored 819 runs at an average of 30.33 and a strike rate of 146.77, including 69 fours and 40 sixes. He also holds the record for the second-highest individual score in PSL history (127* off 59).

At 39, he’s no spring chicken and we may not see him feature in the PSL again but elsewhere, he’s still doing his thing, including playing in the ongoing Betway SA T20 in South Africa. 

8. Jason Roy

Following Munro on the list is Jason Roy, who has scored 1260 runs in 38 innings at a strike rate of 146.51, thus finding himself on the list of batsmen with the highest strike rates in PSL. During the course of his PSL career so far, Roy has hit 149 fours and 44 sixes. In 2023, he smashed an unbeaten 145 off just 63 balls for the Gladiators against Peshawar Zalmi, which is the highest individual score in PSL history.  The 2019 World Cup winner is also one of only six men to have two PSL centuries to his name, with Kamran Akmal the only player to have three. 

9. Faheem Ashraf 

Ashraf is mostly seen as an extremely handy all-rounder who adds great balance to any side with his right arm medium and ability to chip in with vital runs in the lower-middle order. 

But when he bats in T20, he likes to get on with it, as his strike rate of 144.68 demonstrates.  Often coming in at seven or eight, he’s smashed 68 fours and 39 sixes, part of reason why that PSL strike rate is so healthy. Over his PSL career, he’s averaged 22.94 with a high score of 55. 

10. Umar Akmal

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Umar Akmal, who remained unpicked for PSL 2024, finds himself in the tenth spot on the list. From 2016 to 2023, Akmal scored 1029 runs at an average of 30.26 and a strike rate of 144.31. His 1029 runs were laced with 78 fours and 60 sixes. 

He last played domestic cricket in February 2024 meaning there’s a good chance we won’t see him again in the PSL. 

Notable Performances in 2024 

There are some slightly unfamiliar names at the top of the charts when it comes to just the 2024 edition of the PSL. 

Best of all was Englishman Chris Jordan of the Multan Sultans, who struck at a barely believable rate of 225 in scoring his 45 runs for the 2024 season off just 20 balls. For that reason, his strike rate needs to be taken somewhat with a pinch of salt because though he did score his runs at a breakneck pace, he didn't actually spend much time at the crease. 

The same can be said of David Wiese (Lahore Qalandars) and Carlos Brathwaite (also Lahore) who had strike rates in excess of 200 – 221.42 and 205 respectively – but also didn’t face many deliveries; just 28 in the case of Wiese and 20 in the case of Brathwaite. 

A better example of a batsman with an extremely high strike rate in 2024 over a longer period is Iftikhar Ahmed, the 34-year-old who has played almost 100 games for Pakistan. He played in 12 matches last season, batted 11 times and struck at 193.28, a total of 259 runs scored off 134 deliveries. That included 23 fours and 17 sixes as his side the Multan Sultans made the final, which they eventually lost to Islamabad United. 

Rounding off the Top 5 for the 2024 edition was the uncapped Jahandad Khan, whose 88 runs for the Lahore Qalandars came off just 47 deliveries, meaning his strike rate for the campaign was 187.23, with a high score of 45 not out.