Most Sixes in Cricket World Cup, ODI, Test Matches and T20

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Ricky Ponting Hit a Six with Graphite Bat



If you are watching cricket and from new generation then you must be a great fan of one day cricket which looks like second to Twenty20 these day. One day cricket is dominant by batsmen from start of this format and later encouraged by the world cup winners Sri Lanka.  Everyone seems to be like hard hitting batsmen who can clear the boundary at any given time during a one day internationals.  



If we talk about the cricket world cup, there are many names thats flashes on everyones mind like, sanath jayasurya, virender sehwag, sachin tendulkar, andrew symonds etc. who are considered in top list of power players, but are you aware who hitted the most sixes till the start of  icc cricket world cup 2011?   its ricky ponting who is toping the list with 27 sixes. 



  Here is the list of top six batsman with most sixes in all Cricket World Cups:
  1. 27 Ricky Ponting (Australia) - 31 matches 
  2. 25 Saurav Ganguly (India) - 21 matches 
  3. 22 Viv Richards (West Indies) - 23 matches 
  4. 22 Herschelle Gibbs (South Africa) - 18 matches 
  5. 20 Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) - 30 matches 
  6. 19 Sachin Tendulkar (India) - 36 matches
For overall one day international matches Pakistan's Sahid Afridi is the leader with 272 sixes, here is the list of cricket players with most sixes in ODI:
  1. Shahid Afridi,      306 Matches     280 Sixes
  2. ST Jayasuriya,     444 Matches     270 Sixes
  3. SC Ganguly,        311 Matches     190 Sixes
  4. SR Tendulkar,     442 Matches     185 Sixes
  5. CH Gayle,           220 Matches     165 Sixes
  6. RT Ponting,         352 Matches     157 Sixes
  7. CL Cairns,          215 Matches     153 Sixes
  8. AC Gilchrist,       287 Matches     149 Sixes
  9. Inzamam-ul-Haq, 378 Matches    144 Sixes
  10. Yuvraj Singh,       255 Matches    136 Sixes
*Upto ODI # 3069

Top ten batsmen with most sixes in Test matches cricket are as follows:
  1.  AC Gilchrist (Aus)      96 Matches    100 Sixes
  2. BC Lara (ICC/WI)     131 Matches    88 Sixes
  3. CL Cairns (NZ)           62 Matches    87 Sixes
  4. V Sehwag (ICC/India) 84 Matches    84 Sixes
  5. IVA Richards (WI)     121 Matches    84 Sixes
  6. A Flintoff (Eng/ICC)    79 Matches    82 Sixes
  7. ML Hayden (Aus)       103 Matches    82 Sixes
  8. JH Kallis (ICC/SA)     142 Matches    81 Sixes
  9. CH Gayle (WI)            90 Matches    75 Sixes
  10. RT Ponting (Aus)         149 Matches    71 Sixes
 *Upto Test # 1981

List  the top ten batsmen with most sixes in twenty twenty (T20) International are as follows:
  1. BB McCullum (NZ)   40 Matches    39 Sixes
  2. Yuvraj Singh (India)   22 Matches    38 Sixes
  3. CH Gayle (WI)          20 Matches    34 Sixes
  4. CL White (Aus)         23 Matches    31 Sixes
  5. DA Warner (Aus)      23 Matches    31 Sixes
  6. JA Morkel (SA)         31 Matches    29 Sixes
  7. DJ Hussey (Aus)        26 Matches    27 Sixes
  8. LRPL Taylor (NZ)     34 Matches    26 Sixes
  9. GC Smith (SA)          31 Matches    25 Sixes
  10. Kamran Akmal (Pak) 38 Matches    25 Sixes
*Upto T20I # 192]

Here are the videos of few of those amazing looking sixes hit.
 
1) Tendulkar's 3 unbelievable 6's, 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup:



2) Ponting Hit a Six


3) Dimitri Mascarenhas England hit 5 sixes in 5 balls against India off Yuvraj:



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