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
Well, he has completed his quota of boom boom for the next 6 matches, so expecting him to click today would have been very optimistic to begin with. This is their typical style. Just when you are about to give up on them completely, they come up with a surprise performance for a match or two to rekindle your hopes. After that, they just get back to their old ways.
Talking of inconsistency, have you guys noticed that lately, our tailenders have often batted better than the top order, and Hafeez who is primarily a batsman has sometimes bowled better than the useless Sami and Rana while failing with the bat. You can pretty much switch the top order with the tail, it might even improve the team’s overall performance.
no boom boom today; out for 8 !
Also, there is no ban right now. 8 games is the worst possible scenario. Most likely it will be less than that.
There is significant difference between verbally abusing someone like Gibbs did and physical threating someone with a weapon (which a bat is in the hands of a frustrated player).
I think the niswar reference is in very bad taste. If this is a joke, it is not a very good one. Ethnic stereotyping is never funny.
The ban is very severe. He didn’t abuse someone like Gibbs still he is being punished severely.
On the other hand,Imran Nazir might face ban as well due to abusive language.
awww, so he’s got banned???? penalty decision came??
Well if the coach gets huge huge sums of money then he should coach on such matters to … anger control management … !
Specially after Gibb’s recent incident … players should be a bit responsible …!