Afridi ke chakkay = 224

Owais Mughal

After hitting 6 sixers today, Shahid Afridi has taken his career tally of sixers in One Day Internationals to 224.

He now holds the World Record for hitting the most number of sixers in ODIs.

For a long time this record used to be with Vivian Richards of West Indies. Jayasuria of SriLanka and Shahid Afridi alternately held this record couple of times and now it is back with Shahid Afridi.

Here is the list of 10 most six hitters of the World with 3 Pakistanis making to the top 10.

1. Shahid Afridi (Pakistan) 224 sixers at 1.00 sixer/innings
2. Jayasuria (Sri Lanka) 222 sixers at 0.6 sixer/innings
3. S. Ganguly (India) 172 sixers at 0.63 sixer/innings
4. S. Tendulkar (India) 155 sixers 0.42 sixer/innings
5. C. Cairns (New Zealand) 153 sixers 0.79 sixer/innings
6. Inzamam-ul-Haq (Pakistan) 141 sixers at 0.4 sixer/innings
7. Brian Lara (West Indies) 128 sixers at 0.45 sixer/innings
8. Sir I.V.A. Richards (West Indies) 126 sixers at 0.75 sixer/innings
9. A Gilchrist (Australia) 126 sixers at 0.5 sixer/innings
10. Wasim Akram (Pakistan) 121 sixers at 0.43 sixer/innings

Following is the list of top 10 Pakistani sixer hitters in ODIs. Number in parenthesis shows their World Rank in terms of most number of 6s hit in the ODI career.

1. (1st) Shahid Afridi 224 sixers at 1.00 sixer/innings
2. (6th) Inzamam-ul-Haq 141 sixers at 0.4 sixer/innings
3. (10th) Wasim Akram 121 sixers at 0.43 sixer/innings
4. (13th) Abdul Razzak 102 sixers at 0.52 sixer/innings
5. (15th) Saeed Anwar 97 sixers at 0.39 sixer/innings
6. (18th) Ijaz Ahmed 87 sixers at 0.37 sixer/innings
7. (24th) M Yousuf 80 sixers at 0.36 sixer/innings
8. (37th) Moin Khan 61 sixers at 0.33 sixer/innings
9. (52nd) Imran Khan 45 sixers at 0.29 sixer/innings
10. (56th) Javed Miandad 44 sixers at 0.2 sixer/innings