Chris Gayle Equals Shahid Afrid’s Record For Most International Sixes

During the third ODI between West Indies and Bangladesh at St. Kitts and Nevis, Windies opener Chris Gayle has equalled former Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi’s record of most sixes in international cricket.

During his knock of 73 off 66 balls, Gayle hit as many as five sixes and his fifth six will be a memorable one as it was his 476th international six, equalling Afridi’s tally. It took Gayle 443 matches and 513 innings across all three formats to reach the milestone, which is very impressive with a ratio of 0.86 sixes each innings, but is slightly less than Afridi’s tally of 476 sixes in 524 matches and 508 innings, which is roughly 0.93 sixes every time he came out to bat.

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Gayle has scored 98 sixes in the longer format, two less than the world record for most sixes in Tests which is held by Adam Gilchrist (100), 275 maximums in 279 ODI innings and 103 sixes in 52 T20I innings. Gayle has a chance to break Afridi’s record on August 1st as he is a part of the 3-match T20I series against Bangladesh.

List of Batsmen with the Most Number of Sixes across Tests, ODIs and T20Is Matches:

SR. NO.	PLAYER	COUNTRY	MATCHES	RUNS	100S	50S	4S	6S
1.	Shahid Afridi	Pakistan	524	11,196	11	51	1053	476
2.	Chris Gayle	West Indies	443	18,548	40	99	2256	476
3.	Brendon McCullum	New Zealand	432	14,676	19	76	1552	398
4.	Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka	586	21,032	42	103	2486	352
5.	MS Dhoni	India	504	16,409	16	102	1427	342
6.	AB de Villiers	South Africa	420	20,014	47	109	2004	328
7.	Rohit Sharma	India	292	10,313	24	58	921	291
8.	Martin Guptill	New Zealand	281	10,833	18	65	1139	274
9.	Sachin Tendulkar	India	664	34,357	100	164	4076+	264
10.	Adam Gilchrist	Australia	396	15,461	33	81	1866	262

(Records include stats of all international matches completed on and before July 29, 2018)

Gayle also has a golden chance to become the first batsman to hit 500 international sixes. No other batsman apart from Gayle and Afridi has scored 400 sixes at the top level and the man who is closer to them is former India skipper MS Dhoni, who is fifth in the all-time list behind Afridi, Gayle, Brendon McCullum (398) and Sanath Jayasuriya (352) with 342 sixes.

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It is highly unlikely that Dhoni will go on to break the record that will soon be created by Chris Gayle. Out of the current set of batsmen, New Zealand’s Martin Guptill and India’s Rohit Sharma have the highest probability of breaking Gayle’s soon-to-be-created record as they are seventh and eighth in the all-time list with 291 and 274 sixes respectively.

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