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

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:

How to watch Cricket matches online (Free and Paid)?

Before you start reading the complete article let me tell you that I am not an expert on this subject still trying to put best of my knowledge about “what you should know before watching cricket match online”.

Lets start the guide:

First thing and most important, you should have a fast speed broadband or cable Internet connection, here I recommend minimum of 512 kpbs speed for this. This is the key to all the online sources you are trying to dig and watching online cricket matche is no exception. I have personally bad experience with slower speeds where online ODI match just stops in between or player started to buffer the feed again and again. Believe me this is so frustrated and killing you might consider to switch on the sports channel for watching live cricket match.

Second thing, you should have all the different kind of online players installed on your PC to watch cricket match online. The most famous nowadays is sopcast and TVU player few telecast it through real player. Let me explain you how you can install this player which is absolutely free of cost, what you need is just 15-20 mins of your precious time.

SopCast - SopCast is a simple, free way to broadcast video and audio or watch the video and listen to radio on the Internet. Adopting P2P(Peer-to-Peer) technology, It is very efficient and easy to use. Let anyone become a broadcaster without the costs of a powerful server and vast bandwidth. You can build your own TV stations comparable with large commercial sites with minimal resources. Using SopCast, you can serve 10,000 online users with a personal computer and a home broadband connection.

Download and Install sopcast Plugin if you don’t have it already.

Download SopCast.zip from http://download.sopcast.com/download/SopCast.zip. Unpack it with Winzip or Winrar to a directory and run Setup-SopCast-version.exe to setup with default choices. The WebPlayer will be installed automatically also.


TVU Player - TVU networks offers a free global live TV service that you can watch on your Windows PC over a broadband Internet connection. This service is dedicated to bringing you TV that you can't get from cable or satellite, such as news and sports from around the world.

Download the player and install it on your PC and that’s it…

Third and final step, search for the cricket sites or cricket blogs who are providing live feeds of these ODI,T20,Test cricket matches online. There are many paid sites which aprovide cricket matches online but you need to pay per cricket match or for whole cricket tournament/series, for peoples from India,Pakistan,Bangladesh and Sri Lanka don’t like to watch matches with paid cricket streaming (lol), don’t worry mates, there are a lot of blogs which are providing these cricket match online, you can see few of them which I posted on my blog but not sure if they are currently giving the channel which was there time I posted there.

Here is the list of sites and blogs (both paid and free) where you can watch cricket matches online.

Cricket Matches Online Sites

1. Action8Cricket.com
2. apnaitv
3. Cricketbox.org
4. Cricketnow.net
5. Cricketon.tv
6. Cricketspot.com
7. Desicrickets.com
8. Livesportsonline.info
9. Livesportzstreaming.com
10. Mazatv
11. Streambox.tv
12. tvsportstreams
13. Watchstreamz.com
14. Willow.tv
15. Free online telecast of cricket world cup 2011
16. WC 2011 Live telecast by ESPN star Cricket and Sky sports
17. Live EspnStar Cricket world cup match
18. Online WC streaming free match in USA?  
19. 2012 T20 world cup Live coverage

Free cricket matches Links

1. TVU Link - TVU Link 1
2. TVU Link - TVU Link 2
3. SOPcast Link 1
4. SOPcast Link 2
5. SOPcast Link 3
6. SOPcast Link 4
7. SOPcast Link 5
8. SOPcast Link 6
9. SOPcast Link 7
10. SOPcast Link 8
11. SOPcast Link 9
12. MMS Link 1 (Window Media Player/Real Player)
13. MMS Link 2 (Window Media Player/Real Player)
14. WMP Link (Window Media Player Only)
15. TVU LinK
16. Watchstreamz.com

More Free Links for online cricket match

1. http://deshicric.com/
2. http://www.cricfever.com
3. http://www.wantena.com/
4. cricket2watch.50webs.com
5. 123onlinemovies.com
6. http://www.3mlive.com/
7. http://www.bhejafry.net/livecricket.php
8. IndianMovieClub
9. Videogully.com
10. http://www.zahipedia.com
11. http://www.cricket-365.info/

I Hope these links will work for you and you can watch cricket matches online for free or if you have some money to spend you can do that. Please do let me know if any of these links are not working or streaming is slow or stopped or any other errors shown by the links, this will help us to check the problem and let other later watch cricket matches online.

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Update:
World cup cricket 2011 is round the corner and there would be increase in online crickte matches lovers who didnt get time or are on move which their favourite cricket teams are in action during icc world cup 2011.  We have posted a complete series on 2011 world cup, please enjoy the live odi cricket matches of world cup on your pc.

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