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Top 20 Leading Six Hitters in International Cricket

March 29, 2016 By totalsportek2

Introduction of Twenty20 has changed the way cricket has been played around the world and it also had massive influence on other formats like 50-overs and Test cricket. 400 is being scored frequently in one day cricket and test matches are getting over within 4 days on average and sometime even three days. Its largely down to players getting so use to fast pace of twenty20 cricket that it becomes a habit in other formats as well. Today we take a look at top 10 biggest six hitters in all formats combined.

Why Shahid Afridi is the biggest six hitter in cricket history ?

Shahid Afridi biggest six hitter in the world
When it comes to sixes, Shahid Afridi is in the league of his own having hit 476 sixes in his career which spanned around 20 years. Majority of his sixes came in 50-over cricket as he notched up impressive 351 sixes in 398 ODI games. Him being at the top of the pile is even more remarkable considering most of his career he played lower down the order in all formats. What is even more impressive about Afridi’s number is that even if we combine all three format statistics his strike rate still fall around 114 and nobody in the list below come close to that. Although he was never a reliable batsman but boy when it comes to big hits there is no match for him.

Why Chris Gayle is the greatest hitter in short history of T20 cricket ?

His record haul of 637 sixes in around 242 domestic T20 matches (including IPL, Big Bash, Carribean, South Africa, T20, PSL, English T20, Bangladesh T20, Sri Lanka League) makes him the greatest hitter in short history of T20 cricket. He is the only batsman in the world who can claim to have scored more than 1000 sixes in international and domestic cricket combined.

Chris Gayle Greatest Six Hitter in cricket
There is no denying in the batting abilities of Chris Gayle and he is only 42 sixes behind the leader Afridi with his total haul of 434 sixes in around 491 matches. Just like afridi most of his sixes came in ODI cricket (238 sixes in 269 matches). Unlike afridi he has played over 100 test matches and hit 98 sixes while another 98 in 48 T20 matches makes him the highest six hitter in twenty20 cricket.

But Chris Gayle comes a six hitting machine if we include statistics from twenty20 domestic leagues. Currently nobody, yes not even Shahid Afridi comes close to what Gayle has achieved in short history of t20 domestic leagues around the world.

Lets take a look at 10 other biggest hitters in world cricket which include some greats of the game. With so much T20 cricket being played it won’t be long when history books are revised with new names.

20 Leading Six Hitter in International Cricket. (all three formats combined)
 NO# PLAYER TOTAL ODIS T20 TEST
1 Pakistan country flagShahid Afridi  476 (523 matches) 351 73 52
2 West IndiesChris Gayle  434 (420 matches) 238 98 98
3 New Zealand Cricket flagBrendon Mccullum  398 (474 matches) 200 91 107
4 Sri Lanka cricket flagSanath Jayasuriya  352 (586 matches) 270 23 59
5 IndiaMS Dhoni  302 (432 matches) 192 32 78
7 South AFrica cricket flagAB de Villiers  287 (376 matches) 184 48 57
8 IndiaSachin Tendulkar  264 (664 matches) 195 0 69
9 AustraliaAdam Gilchrist  262 (396 matches) 149 13 100
10 South AFrica cricket flagJacques Kallis  254 (519 matches) 137 20 97
11 IndiaSourav Ganguly  247 (424 matches) 190 0 57
12 AustraliaRickey Ponting  246 (560 matches) 162 11 73
13 AustraliaShane Watson 245 (307 matches) 131 83 31
14 IndiaVirender Sehwag 243 (374 matches) 136 16 91
15 IndiaYuvraj Singh 241 (388) 148 71 22
16 New Zealand Cricket flagChris Cains 240 (279) 153 0 87
17 West IndiesBrian Lara 221+ (430) 134 0 88
18 New Zealand Cricket flagMartin Guptill 212 (229) 116 76 20
19 West IndiesSir Viv Richards 210 (308) 124 0 84
20 New Zealand Cricket flagRoss Taylor 204 (212) 119 48 37

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*Statistics as of 30 March 2016. There are number of players currently active and we might update the post a few months later with new numbers.

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