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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:
Here is the list of top six batsman with most sixes in all Cricket World Cups:
- 27 Ricky Ponting (Australia) - 31 matches
- 25 Saurav Ganguly (India) - 21 matches
- 22 Viv Richards (West Indies) - 23 matches
- 22 Herschelle Gibbs (South Africa) - 18 matches
- 20 Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) - 30 matches
- 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:
- Shahid Afridi, 306 Matches 280 Sixes
- ST Jayasuriya, 444 Matches 270 Sixes
- SC Ganguly, 311 Matches 190 Sixes
- SR Tendulkar, 442 Matches 185 Sixes
- CH Gayle, 220 Matches 165 Sixes
- RT Ponting, 352 Matches 157 Sixes
- CL Cairns, 215 Matches 153 Sixes
- AC Gilchrist, 287 Matches 149 Sixes
- Inzamam-ul-Haq, 378 Matches 144 Sixes
- Yuvraj Singh, 255 Matches 136 Sixes
*Upto ODI # 3069
Top ten batsmen with most sixes in Test matches cricket are as follows:
- AC Gilchrist (Aus) 96 Matches 100 Sixes
- BC Lara (ICC/WI) 131 Matches 88 Sixes
- CL Cairns (NZ) 62 Matches 87 Sixes
- V Sehwag (ICC/India) 84 Matches 84 Sixes
- IVA Richards (WI) 121 Matches 84 Sixes
- A Flintoff (Eng/ICC) 79 Matches 82 Sixes
- ML Hayden (Aus) 103 Matches 82 Sixes
- JH Kallis (ICC/SA) 142 Matches 81 Sixes
- CH Gayle (WI) 90 Matches 75 Sixes
- 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:
- BB McCullum (NZ) 40 Matches 39 Sixes
- Yuvraj Singh (India) 22 Matches 38 Sixes
- CH Gayle (WI) 20 Matches 34 Sixes
- CL White (Aus) 23 Matches 31 Sixes
- DA Warner (Aus) 23 Matches 31 Sixes
- JA Morkel (SA) 31 Matches 29 Sixes
- DJ Hussey (Aus) 26 Matches 27 Sixes
- LRPL Taylor (NZ) 34 Matches 26 Sixes
- GC Smith (SA) 31 Matches 25 Sixes
- 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:
