Stats: Batsmen with more than 50 sixes in both ODIs and Tests

By Umangkumar Vijaybhai Pabari

Updated - 14 Feb 2016, 01:18 IST

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Cricket is now-a-days popular as batsman’s game and rightly so because batsmen now hit sixes at their will, moreover to this reality an advent of T20 cricket has certainly changed the mindset and players like Chris Gayle, Brendon McCullum, AB de Villiers etc. are the prime example of that and we have seen many times from them. The art of hitting the ball out of the park for six runs is something every batsman looks to master. But these three players and some others have hit more than 50 sixes in both in Tests and ODIs and showed that if you have the right power and timing balance you can hit sixes at your will.

Recently, Brendon McCullum completed 200 sixes in his last ODI innings therefore he became the fourth player in the history of ODI cricket who have hit more than 200 sixes in ODIs. Even if you are cricket fanatic you know about players with most sixes in ODIs and Tests but you may not know about batsmen who have hit more than 50 sixes in Tests and in ODIs, too.

Here are the batsmen with more than 50 sixes in both ODIs and Tests.

Player name Country No. of Test matches No. of sixes in Tests No. of ODI matches No. of sixes in ODIs Total sixes
Adam Gilchrist Australia 96 100 287 149 249
Brendon McCullum New Zealand 99 100 260 200 300
Chris Gayle West Indies 103 98 269 238 336
Jacques Kallis South Africa 166 97 328 137 234
Virender Sehwag India 104 91 251 136 227
Brian Lara West Indies 131 88 299 133+ 221+
Chris Cairns New Zealand 62 87 215 153 240
Viv Richards West Indies 121 84 187 126+ 210+
Andrew Flintoff England 79 82 141 93 175
Matthew Hayden Australia 103 82 161 87 169
Kevin Pietersen England 104 81 136 77 158
MS Dhoni India 90 78 275 192 270
Ricky Ponting Australia 168 73 375 162 235
Sachin Tendulkar India 200 69 463 195 264
Gordon Greenidge West Indies 108 67 128 81+ 148+
Misbah-ul-Haq Pakistan 61 67 162 83 150
Carl Hopper West Indies 102 63 227 65 128
Mahela Jayawardena Sri Lanka 149 61 448 76 137
Kapil Dev India 131 61 225 67+ 128+
Younis Khan Pakistan 104 60 265 56 116
SanathJayasuriya Sri Lanka 110 59 445 270 329
AB de Villiers South Africa 106 57 198 182 239
SouravGanguly India 113 57 311 190 247
WasimAkrma Pakistan 104 57 356 121+ 178+
Brad Haddin Australia 66 54 126 71 125
Craig McMillan New Zealand 55 54 197 84 138
Shahid Afridi Pakistan 27 52 398 351 403
Mohammad Yousuf Pakistan 90 51 288 90 141
Kumar Sangakkara Sri Lanka 134 51 404 88 139

Here is the list of players who have hit more sixes in Tests (Min. 50 sixes) than ODIs.

Player name Country No. of Test matches No. of sixes in Tests No. of ODI matches No. of sixes in ODIs Total sixes
Clive Lloyd West Indies 110 70 87 30+ 100+
Ian Botham England 102 67 116 44 111
Imran Khan Pakistan 88 55 175 45+ 100+
Tim Southee New Zealand 46 55 99 17 72

Here is the table shows the number of players from each team who have achieved this feat.

Count Team name
5 India
5 West Indies
5 Pakistan
4 Australia
3 Sri Lanka
3 New Zealand
2 England
2 South Africa

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