Nicholas Pooran became the Sixer King, broke Chris Gayle and created a world record

The 40th match of the T20 World Cup 2024 was played between West Indies and Afghanistan. This was the last match of the group stage of the tournament, which was played at the Darren Sammy National Cricket Stadium in St. Lucia. In this match against Afghanistan, the West Indies team managed to win by 104 runs. Nicholas Pooran is also a topic of discussion in this match, who has made a special record in his name by surpassing Chris Gayle.

Nicholas Poore left Chris Gayle behind

Nicholas Pooran has become the player who has hit the most sixes for West Indies in T20I cricket. Earlier, Chris Gayle was at the top of this record. Pooran has hit a total of 128 sixes in his 92 T20I matches so far. While Chris Gayle has hit 124 sixes in 79 T20I matches. Evin Lewis is at number three. Evin Lewis has hit 111 sixes in 53 T20 matches. Kieron Pollard is at number four. Pollard has hit 99 sixes in 101 T20 matches. After this, Rovman Powell is at number five. Rovman Powell has hit 90 sixes in 75 T20I matches played so far.

 

Players who have hit more than 500 sixes in T20 cricket

Even today, Chris Gayle's name comes first in terms of hitting the most sixes in T20 cricket. After this, Kieron Pollard is at number two in this list. Andre Russell is at number three. New Zealand's Colin Munro is at fourth place in this list. Rohit Sharma is at fifth and Nicholas Pooran is at sixth place.

• Chris Gayle – 1056 sixes
• Kieron Pollard – 860 sixes
• Andre Russell – 686 Sixes
• Colin Munro – 548 sixes
• Rohit Sharma – 514 sixes
• Nicholas Pooran – 502 sixes