Top 10: Players with Most Sixes in ICC Champions Trophy

In the fast-moving world of cricket, teams will crave batters who can score boundaries at will in their line-up. By boundaries, we mean the ability to clear the ropes consistently, and batters with these skills are paramount for a team to attain success, especially in the white-ball formats.

The ICC Champions Trophy is one such tournament where all the games come with a lot of stakes and such six-hitting batters would prove to be a game-changer for the teams. In this tournament, a lot of batters have made themselves synonymous by playing crucial roles in their respective team’s success, and one of the ways they achieved this by was sending the ball over the ropes most often.

In this article, we will see the most number of sixes scored by a player in Champions Trophy history.

Most Sixes in Champions Trophy

Key Stats

Former India skipper, Sourav Ganguly has scored the most number of sixes in the history of the Champions Trophy. He has smashed 17 maximums in the tourney from the 11 innings he has played across 4 editions of CT.

While Chris Gayle stands as the highest run-getter in the history of CT, the West Indies opening batter had hit 15 maximums during his illustrious career, playing 17 times for his team in four different editions.

In CT, 7 batters have hit 10 or more maximums in their careers, and 4 players just missed the mark by a single six – Kallis, Lara, McMillan, and David Miller, who will represent South Africa in the 2025 CT, all have struck 9 maximums in their respective CT careers.

Hardik Pandya has struck 10 maximums in just 3 innings and his strike rate is a whopping 194.44. The Indian all-rounder will feature for the team in the upcoming edition and has a chance to improve upon the tally

Overall, 33 batters have 5 or more sixes in the Champions Trophy tourney. 11 of these batters have achieved this feat in just a single game of CT.

Shane Watson and Craig McMillan have hammered seven maximums in a single CT innings. This is the most 6s a player hit in a single innings of this tournament.

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