Top 10: Most Sixes in an Innings (By Players) in ICC Champions Trophy

The ICC Champions Trophy format is dynamic and all the games are a knockout. So the team that plays dominant cricket will invariably win the tournament and it can only be possible unless their players are positive throughout.

In such an environment, batting firepower often determines the outcome of the games and the team that has batters with six-hitting capabilities flourish. This maximizes the score and invariably puts the other team under pressure. In this article, we will which batter has done the maximum damage to the opposition by striking most sixes in a CT game. Here are the players with the most sixes in an innings in CT history.

Most Sixes in an Innings in Champions Trophy

Key Stats

There have been 12 instances where a batter has scored 5 or more sixes in a single innings in the Champions Trophy and 11 different batters have achieved this.

Eoin Morgan is the only batter who has done it twice (5 sixes each). The first one came in the 2009 CT edition at Centurion against South Africa and the second one at Birmingham in the 2017 edition playing against Australia.

336: This is the number of times a batter has hit at least a single maximum in a CT innings. New Zealand’s Craig McMillan and Australia’s Shane Watson have struck the most sixes in a single CT innings.

Owais Shah, Hardik Pandya, Shahid Afridi, and Craig McMillan have all struck 6 or more maximums in an innings where they have scored less than 100.