Top 10 Players with most Fours in Cricket career

Top 10 Players with most Fours in Cricket career

Players with most fours in cricket career are rather known as the classy players. Instead of the ones regarded as the biggest hitters in cricket world, these players rely on timing and technique. Shahid Afridi, Chris Gayle and many other biggest hitters of the game would find their place very low in the list simply because they are reliant on the power rather on technique. Being a hard hitter does not require anything more than brutal power whereas being able to hit maximum fours needs class. Timing of the shot, choosing the right place for shot and hitting it with precision that all needed for hitting a flawless four – while for a six you simply need guts.

Don’t believe us? Just take a look at the list of players with most fours in cricket career. It starts with the person having a long list of cricket records on his name. The beholder of the longest cricket career justified each and every game he played. The highest runs scorer holds the record of most hundreds in cricket as well. And how a hundred could be completed without hitting a dozen of fours. Yeah that’s right. Sachin Tendulkar was a rare big hitter however his bat used to shower boundaries when he was in full flow. Unfortunately even record books did not have the exact number of fours hit by him. But what is clear is that he still is the highest boundary hitter in all of the cricket.

In total Sachin Tendulkar hit 4076+ fours during his 25 year span of cricket. The little master is followed by Sri Lankan gentleman of cricket Kumar Sangakkara. The Lankan legend hit a total of 3015 fours in all formats of the game. Ricky Ponting, Mahela Jayawardene, Rahul Dravid and Brian Lara are the next to follow in the list whose complete details go as under.

Top 10 Players with most Fours in Cricket career

Player	Span	Matches	Runs	100s	Fours
SR Tendulkar (India)	1989-2013	664	34357	100	4076+
KC Sangakkara (Asia/ICC/SL)	2000-2015	594	28016	63	3015
RT Ponting (Aus/ICC)	1995-2012	560	27483	71	2781
DPMD Jayawardene (Asia/SL)	1997-2015	652	25957	54	2679
R Dravid (Asia/ICC/India)	1996-2012	509	24208	48	2604
BC Lara (ICC/WI)	1990-2007	430	22358	53	2594+
ST Jayasuriya (Asia/SL)	1989-2011	586	21032	42	2486
JH Kallis (Afr/ICC/SA)	1995-2014	519	25534	62	2455
V Sehwag (Asia/ICC/India)	1999-2013	374	17253	38	2408
CH Gayle (ICC/WI)	1999-2016	422	17954	39	2214