Top 10 players with most Sixes in cricket history

Top 10 players with most Sixes in cricket history

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Being a cricket lover who does not love sixes (unless you are not the bowler, of course)? That awesome feeling after hitting a bowler, with fielders glumly staring at the ball flying out of the ground, cannot be capped into words. The advent of shortest version of cricket – T20 has made it necessary for the batsmen to develop the ability to hit a maximum. Though cricket was already full of batsmen known as the hard hitters of the ball, T20 format has further lubricated their limbs making the bats go swinging much more frequently. Test cricket being regarded as the true gentlemen’s game a few years back, is no exception from the recently developed ‘up, up and away’ rule of the game.

Players with most sixes in cricket history does not necessarily need to be appearing in T20 format only. The latest era of the sport has developed some of the best cricket batsmen in the world ready to adopt and fit in every format of the game. In test matches they proved to be solid rocks making the bowlers sweat in creating a dismissal opportunity. On the other hand, when needed they do never hesitate to suddenly jump into the T20 mode even in a test match inning as well. Chris Gayle, Ab de Villiers and recently retired Kiwi skipper Brendon McCullum are the perfect examples of the complete batsmen in all formats of the game. And in fact these players are the ones with most sixes in cricket history across all formats.

The top spot in most sixes in cricket list however is reserved for a batsman who often calls him a bowling all-rounder. The star Pakistan hard hitter Shahid Afridi holds the world record of hitting most number of sixes combined in all three formats of cricket. The aggressive nature batsman has lost his batting touch recently thus mainly focusing on his bowling. Moreover, he has given up the test format of the game appearing only in ODI and T20 formats. Shahid Afridi also held the record of fastest ODI hundred for almost 17 years before it was broken by Corey Anderson and more recently AB de Villiers. ‘Boom boom’ is followed by the Jamaican giant Chris Gayle who represents his country in all three formats and might possibly catch up Afridi’s record of most sixes in cricket career. While MS Dhoni and AB de Villiers are also two active players in the list with later having the more chances of getting himself promoted further in most sixes in cricket history list courtesy his innovation.

Top 10 players with most Sixes in cricket history (All three formats of Int. cricket)

Player	Matches	No. of sixes in Tests	No. of sixes in ODIS	No. of sixes in T20I	Total sixes
Shahid Afridi	523	52	351	73	476
CH Gayle	422	98	238	98	434
BB McCullum	432	107	200	91	398
ST Jayasuriya	586	59	270	23	352
MS Dhoni	433	78	192	32	302
AB de Villiers	378	57	184	48	289
SR Tendulkar	664	69	195	0	264
AC Gilchrist	396	100	149	13	262
JH Kallis	519	97	137	20	254
SC Ganguly	424	57	190	0	247