Chris Gayle toppled Shahid Afridi to top the list of most international sixes during the 1st ODI between West Indies and England at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados on Wednesday.
Gayle hit a six of the first ball in the 15th over of the West Indies innings off Moeen Ali to surpass Pakistan’s Afridi. Gayle now has 477 international sixes, one more than Afridi.
Third on that list is former New Zealand wicket-keeper-batsman Brendon McCullum, who has hit 398 international sixes. former Sri Lanka opener Sanath Jayasuriya is fourth with international sixes 352.
India’s Rohit Sharma and MS Dhoni come in fifth and sixth on the list with 349 and 348 international sixes, followed by AB de Villiers, who has 328 international sixes.
Gayle hit a six off the first ball in the 15th over of the West Indies innings bowled by Moeen Ali to surpass Pakistan’s Afridi. With that, Gayle edged past the Pakistani batsman for his 477th big hit. The West Indies great achieved this feat in his 444th match while Afridi took 524 matches for 476 sixes.
By the time Gayle was done at the Kensington Oval, he had taken his tally to 488 international sixes. The 39-year-old has now smashed 287 sixes in ODIs, 103 sixes in T20Is and 98 maximums in the longest format of the game.
Gayle went on to score 135 runs from 129 balls with three fours and 12 sixes coming into his inning. That is 84 runs coming from 15 balls in just boundaries. It was his 24th ODI hundred and was eventually dismissed by Ben Stokes in the 47th over.
