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
[quote post=”564″]I guess this performance would cement his place in the team for another two years[/quote]
For good measure, he’s also sporting a longer than usual beard these days; that should really seal the deal.
why do people care about such trivial records? somewhere else people were making a big deal about Yousuf scoring an ODI century against all cricket nations. who cares?
Pakistan winning is more important than any of these funky individual records.
[quote comment=”33308″]Before everyone goes gaga again over Afridi, let’s remember that this was his first score of over 30 runs in TWO YEARS !!
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I guess this performance would cement his place in the team for another two years, so we are in for another streak of dismal performances before he hits another rare spike!
Before everyone goes gaga again over Afridi, let’s remember that this was his first score of over 30 runs in TWO YEARS !!
Also, I have found the South African commentators to be extremely polite and fair and I agree that the comments made regarding Afridi’s sweep were in admiration and not in sarcasm. In the very next over, I remember the same commentator saying about Afridi ” what a player !”.
By the way, does anyone else thinks that the only reason Afridi did not get the man-of-the-match award (he also took 3 wickets) was because of his antics towards the crowd in the previous match?
Thanks. I also liked Afridi’s yesterday Play. He certainly needs consistancy and hope he Keeps it.