Most sixes in international cricket: Rohit Sharma sets world record; see full list
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Most sixes in international cricket: Rohit Sharma sets world record; see full list

After restricting Afghanistan to 272/8, India's run chase was off to a filer at the Arun Jaitley Stadium as Rohit scored a brisk half-century. He reached his fifty off 30 balls.


India captain Rohit Sharma set a world record during the team's ICC World Cup 2023 match against Afghanistan in Delhi on Wednesday (October 11). Rohit is now the leading six-hitter in international cricket, across the three formats, surpassing Chris Gayle.

After restricting Afghanistan to 272/8, India's run chase was off to a filer at the Arun Jaitley Stadium as Rohit scored a brisk half-century. He reached his fifty off 30 balls. Later, he continued in the same form to score an Indian World Cup record of 63-ball century. He broke Kapil Dev's record (100 off 72). Rohit's record-breaking innings came to an end at 131 (84 balls, 16x4, 5x6))

Rohit went past Gayle's tally of 553 sixes in international cricket. The Indian skipper had started today's match needing 3 sixes to break the record and he did it.

The record from Rohit has come in 473 innings while Gayle took 551. Rohit has 77 sixes in Tests, 296 sixes in ODIs, and 182 sixes in T20Is.

During his innings in Delhi, Rohit also completed 1,000 runs in ODI World Cup history.

Here are the top 11 six hitters in international cricket

Rohit Sharma – 556

Chris Gayle – 553

Shahid Afridi – 476

Brendon McCullum – 398

Martin Guptill – 383

MS Dhoni – 359

Sanath Jayasuriya – 352

Eoin Morgan – 346

AB de Villiers – 328

Jos Buttler – 315

Virat Kohli – 283

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