Since the start of T20I cricket, the batters have doubled down on their six-hitting skills. And the hitting isn’t limited to the shorter format. It has made its foray in the other two formats as well.
So, with the three formats combined, batters are leaving no opportunity to muscle the ball with power. That is also helping them climb up the list of the most sixes hit in a year across formats.
Here, we’ll see the top 10 instances when batters smashed the most sixes in a calendar year in all formats.
Most Sixes in a calendar year
| Players | Year | Sixes |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Waseem (UAE) | 2023 | 101 |
| Rohit Sharma (IND) | 2023 | 80 |
| Rohit Sharma (IND) | 2019 | 78 |
| Rohit Sharma (IND) | 2018 | 74 |
| Suryakumar Yadav (IND) | 2022 | 74 |
| Rohit Sharma (IND) | 2017 | 65 |
| Kushal Malla (NEP) | 2023 | 65 |
| AB De Villiers (SA) | 2015 | 63 |
| Mitchell Marsh (AUS) | 2023 | 61 |
| Daryl Mitchell (NZ) | 2023 | 61 |
Key Insights
In 2023, Muhammad Waseem became the first batter to hit 100 sixes in a year across all formats. He smashed 101 maximums in 47 matches, all of which were either ODIs or T20Is.
Rohit Sharma is the only batter to clobber 50 or more sixes in four calendar years. Three of those instances came in a row in 2017, 2018, and 2019. You can read here some of the insane Rohit Sharma records in ODI cricket to understand how he rules the limited-overs cricket in this era!
UAE’s Waseem is the other batter to make a hat-trick of 50-plus sixes. He hit 58 maximums in 2022 before his record-breaking 2023, followed by 61 sixes in 2024.
Eoin Morgan in 2019 created a world record of 17 sixes in an innings against Afghanistan – the highest by a batsman in an ODI innings.
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