Xtra Time Web Desk: Twenty 20 cricket is all about entertainment where sixes galore. The emergence of T20 format has seen some big hitting by the batsmen. With the modern bats, short boundaries and flat pitches, more and more big scores are getting chased easily. No score is unachievable in the era of T20 cricket. And the men who are grabbing all the highlights are some of the biggest power hitters the game has ever seen.
It is not a surprise when we see the balls being dispatched out of the smaller grounds like Sharjah or Chinnaswamy. The ongoing IPL 2020 matches at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium have seen a lot of hits by the batsmen being fetched from the adjacent street. It was just unthinkable to see so many sixes landing outside the hallowed venue. For example a couple of sixes hit by Royal Challengers Bangalore’s AB de Villiers during his 33 ball 73 against Kolkata Knight Riders flew outside the Sharjah stadium. The Proteas batsman just tormented the potent KKR bowling unit on Monday as the Bangalore franchise romped past a hapless Knight Riders in the IPL 2020.
Dubbed as Mr. 360, de Villiers smoked twin maximums in the 16th over bowled by pacer Kamlesh Nagarkoti. Talking about ABD clobbering two massive sixes, one sailed out of the Sharjah stadium and hit a passing car. Such was the affect that it brought the traffic to a stand still for a while.
The T20 leagues across the globe have seen the emergence of some big hitters of the game. Indian Premier League itself witnessed some monstrous sixes being hit by the batsmen. Jamaican Chris Gayle leads the table with 326 sixes from 125 matches. RCB’s AB de Villiers is a distant second with 225 sixes from 161 matches followed by MS Dhoni (CSK) 214, Rohit Sharma (MI) 208 and Virat Kohli (RCB) 197.
When it comes to hitting most sixes in an innings, once again Universe Boss tops the table. He hit 17 sixes during his knock of of 175(66) against Pune Warriors India at Chinnaswamy stadium in IPL 2013. Brendon McCullum the current Head Coach of the Kolkata Knight Riders has hit a staggering 13 sixes during his (158 off 73) knock in the first match of the inaugural IPL in 2008 against RCB at the Chinnaswamy stadium. During the IPL 2016 AB de Villiers took the Gujarat Lions bowlers to the cleaners, as he hit 12 sixes during his 129(52) at Chinnaswamy.
In the ongoing IPL 2020, we have already seen close to 400 sixes being hit. Rajasthan Royals’s Sanju Samson leads the table with 16 sixes along with Nicholas Pooran of Kings XI Punab. Rahul Tewatia of Rajasthan Royals has clobbered 15 sixes so far followed by Ishan Kishan and Rohit Sharma of Mumbai Indians who have hit 14 sixes each. One man who is fast catching up with 13 sixes is AB de Villiers, one of the biggest six hitters the world has ever seen.
It is not a surprise when we see the balls being dispatched out of the smaller grounds like Sharjah or Chinnaswamy. The ongoing IPL 2020 matches at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium have seen a lot of hits by the batsmen being fetched from the adjacent street. It was just unthinkable to see so many sixes landing outside the hallowed venue. For example a couple of sixes hit by Royal Challengers Bangalore’s AB de Villiers during his 33 ball 73 against Kolkata Knight Riders flew outside the Sharjah stadium. The Proteas batsman just tormented the potent KKR bowling unit on Monday as the Bangalore franchise romped past a hapless Knight Riders in the IPL 2020.
Dubbed as Mr. 360, de Villiers smoked twin maximums in the 16th over bowled by pacer Kamlesh Nagarkoti. Talking about ABD clobbering two massive sixes, one sailed out of the Sharjah stadium and hit a passing car. Such was the affect that it brought the traffic to a stand still for a while.
The T20 leagues across the globe have seen the emergence of some big hitters of the game. Indian Premier League itself witnessed some monstrous sixes being hit by the batsmen. Jamaican Chris Gayle leads the table with 326 sixes from 125 matches. RCB’s AB de Villiers is a distant second with 225 sixes from 161 matches followed by MS Dhoni (CSK) 214, Rohit Sharma (MI) 208 and Virat Kohli (RCB) 197.
When it comes to hitting most sixes in an innings, once again Universe Boss tops the table. He hit 17 sixes during his knock of of 175(66) against Pune Warriors India at Chinnaswamy stadium in IPL 2013. Brendon McCullum the current Head Coach of the Kolkata Knight Riders has hit a staggering 13 sixes during his (158 off 73) knock in the first match of the inaugural IPL in 2008 against RCB at the Chinnaswamy stadium. During the IPL 2016 AB de Villiers took the Gujarat Lions bowlers to the cleaners, as he hit 12 sixes during his 129(52) at Chinnaswamy.
In the ongoing IPL 2020, we have already seen close to 400 sixes being hit. Rajasthan Royals’s Sanju Samson leads the table with 16 sixes along with Nicholas Pooran of Kings XI Punab. Rahul Tewatia of Rajasthan Royals has clobbered 15 sixes so far followed by Ishan Kishan and Rohit Sharma of Mumbai Indians who have hit 14 sixes each. One man who is fast catching up with 13 sixes is AB de Villiers, one of the biggest six hitters the world has ever seen.