Biggest six hitters outside the subcontinent

[Barney Rubble]

Another one people won't think much of is Tresco (he's not the biggest hitter obviously), when he puts his considerable belly behind it. Against Pakistan in the ODI series a couple of years back he hit a missile which was almost still rising when it hit the 3rd floor of the stand. Mark Nicholas started squeaking as per usual and one of the other commentators (I think) said he'd not seen anything like it since Lance Cairns was about.

Tresco sure can give it a wallop. In his first ever Twenty20 game, which I saw at Taunton, he hit Carl Greenidge for six fours in an over, and each of them was an absolute bullet. It's all well and good judging the strength of a hit by how far it goes over the ropes, but when it comes to hitting the hardest fours, Tresco's right up there with Zulu in the "swing right through the line with a monstrously heavy bat and equally monstrous shoulders" stakes.

 

[Zinzan]

Chris Cairns' father Lance could hit further than Chris. He hit 6 sixes in an over once and also hit a one handed six

Yeah right......Hogg, Lillee and Mclean all bowled the same over did they

It wasn't off one over fella ....thats never been done before in an ODI.

He did hit one one-handed though over deep square leg's head

 

[Lyell_Chris]

He never hit 6 sixes in an over.. That was in one game, not an over.

I think he did it mighta been in fc though it was well b4 my time

 

[Dasa]

I think he did it mighta been in fc though it was well b4 my time

Only 2 batsmen have done it in FC - Sobers and Ravi Shastri.

 

[Buddhmaster]

The biggest i've seen was Cairnes's last year when it went out of the stadium. It was high and went so far. Ponting hits quite a few sixes, but they don't go the distance of those by Lee, Afridi or Gilly

 

[deeps]

Afridi's six off Symonds at the WACA is by far the biggest hit i've ever seen. The WACA is a big big ground , and to hit the pavillion as high as he did, the ball was probably still rising at the time

 

[PY]

Yikes, Brett doesn't just hit the long ball, he's cricket's Happy Gilmore!

Just watched Trent Bridge Aus 1st innings, he easily clears the top of one the stands which is HUGE. And it was off Harmison!

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

I really want to see this Lee strike, sounds monumental. Think going downtown Zulu was the most fearful striking I've seen, four or six it was going to smoke you in the crowd.

To me, Klusener never looked like hitting a six though. Yes, he's a big strong guy and whatnot, but he was such an ugly six hitter that he never really looked threatening, apart from the fact that you knew he could clobber it.

 

[nightprowler10]

I'd probably argue that and say that better six hitters come from other parts of the world than the sub-continent...

How exactly do you mean better? The sub-continent has produced more big-hitters in the world. Here is a list of the top 10 cricketers with the most career sixes.

Shahid Afridi
ST Jayasuriya
SC Ganguly
SR Tendulkar
CL Cairns
Inzamam-ul-Haq
IVA Richards
Wasim Akram
BC Lara
AC Gilchrist

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

How exactly do you mean better? The sub-continent has produced more big-hitters in the world. Here is a list of the top 10 cricketers with the most career sixes.

Shahid Afridi
ST Jayasuriya
SC Ganguly
SR Tendulkar
CL Cairns
Inzamam-ul-Haq
IVA Richards
Wasim Akram
BC Lara
AC Gilchrist

Quantity does not equate quality though. There are a lot of ugly sixes on the subcontinent.

*stirs*

 

[nightprowler10]

Quantity does not equate quality though. There are a lot of ugly sixes on the subcontinent.

*stirs*

Thats why I asked him to explain what he meant. I actually never watched most of the people he mentioned, so I can't comment.

 

[marc71178]

How exactly do you mean better? The sub-continent has produced more big-hitters in the world. Here is a list of the top 10 cricketers with the most career sixes.

Shahid Afridi
ST Jayasuriya
SC Ganguly
SR Tendulkar
CL Cairns
Inzamam-ul-Haq
IVA Richards
Wasim Akram
BC Lara
AC Gilchrist

Be interesting to see number of games and 6s per match for those (and others not in that list)

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

How exactly do you mean better? The sub-continent has produced more big-hitters in the world. Here is a list of the top 10 cricketers with the most career sixes.

Shahid Afridi
ST Jayasuriya
SC Ganguly
SR Tendulkar
CL Cairns
Inzamam-ul-Haq
IVA Richards
Wasim Akram
BC Lara
AC Gilchrist

That has more to do with the ridiculous number of ODIs played by subcontinent nations during the 90s than anything else.

Here's the top 10 list in tests:
CL Cairns
AC Gilchrist
IVA Richards
BC Lara
ML Hayden
CH Lloyd
IT Botham
CG Greenidge
A Flintoff
CL Hooper

 

[James]

Reading this thread it reminded me of the New Zealand v Australia test at the Basin Reserve last summer where Gilchrist took to Vettori and hit him straight into the members area. I have the photo to prove it too

Cairns and Gilchrist would go down as the biggest six hitters for me with Richard Petrie the biggest in NZ domestic cricket.

 

[Eclipse]

How exactly do you mean better? The sub-continent has produced more big-hitters in the world. Here is a list of the top 10 cricketers with the most career sixes.

Shahid Afridi
ST Jayasuriya
SC Ganguly
SR Tendulkar
CL Cairns
Inzamam-ul-Haq
IVA Richards
Wasim Akram
BC Lara
AC Gilchrist

Are you sure that list is correct??

Top 20 most sixes in Tests:

6s    Runs
 87    3320    CL Cairns            New Zealand   
 85    4772    AC Gilchrist         Australia     
 84    8540    IVA Richards         West Indies   
 78   10903    BC Lara              West Indies   
 71    6382    ML Hayden            Australia     
 70    7515    CH Lloyd             West Indies   
 67    5200    IT Botham            England       
 67    7558    CG Greenidge         West Indies   
 65    2691    A Flintoff           England       
 63    5762    CL Hooper            West Indies   
 61    5248    N Kapil Dev          India         
 57    2898    Wasim Akram          Pakistan      
 55    3807    Imran Khan           Pakistan      
 55    7420    JH Kallis            South Africa  
 54    3116    CD McMillan          New Zealand   
 52    6580    ST Jayasuriya        Sri Lanka     
 50    7662    RT Ponting           Australia     
 48    6361    PA de Silva          Sri Lanka     
 48    8832    Javed Miandad        Pakistan      
 44    5227    HH Gibbs             South Africa

And in ODI mathes :

Name                  Mat   I   NO  Runs   HS   Ave   100   SR     6s  6s/I Team
Shahid Afridi         213  204   9  4696   109  24.08   4 108.20  209  1.02  PAK  
ST Jayasuriya         345  336  15 10207   189  31.79  18  88.62  189  0.56  SL   
SC Ganguly            279  270  21 10123   183  40.65  22  73.79  168  0.62  IND  
SR Tendulkar          353  344  33 13834  186*  44.48  38  86.18  147  0.42  IND  
CL Cairns             208  187  23  4807   115  29.31   4  83.80  147  0.78  NZ   
Inzamam-ul-Haq        347  322  47 10971  137*  39.89  10  74.28  134  0.41  PAK  
IVA Richards          187  167  24  6721  189*  47.00  11  90.20  126  0.75  WI   
Wasim Akram           356  280  55  3717    86  16.52   0  88.28  121  0.43  PAK  
BC Lara               259  252  26  9359   169  41.41  19  79.46  110  0.43  WI   
AC Gilchrist          222  216   9  7542   172  36.43  12  95.73  106  0.49  AUS  
PA de Silva           308  296  30  9284   145  34.90  11  81.13  102  0.34  SL   
RT Ponting            235  229  28  8447   145  42.02  18  78.09  100  0.43  AUS  
JH Kallis             224  215  38  7793   139  44.02  13  70.57   97  0.45  RSA  
Saeed Anwar           247  244  19  8823   194  39.21  20  80.66   97  0.39  PAK  
WJ Cronje             188  175  31  5565   112  38.64   2  76.48   94  0.53  RSA  
Ijaz Ahmed            250  232  29  6564  139*  32.33  10  80.30   87  0.37  PAK  
A Jadeja              196  179  36  5359   119  37.47   6  69.76   85  0.47  IND  
CG Greenidge          128  127  13  5134  133*  45.03  11  64.92   81  0.63  WI   
Abdul Razzaq          196  170  41  3880   112  30.07   2  79.70   81  0.47  PAK  
A Flintoff             93   81  11  2414   123  34.48   3  90.51   78  0.96  ENG

 

[Eclipse]

Quantity does not equate quality though. There are a lot of ugly sixes on the subcontinent.

*stirs*

Yeah exactly.. lots of spinners bowling and the grounds are signifigantly smaller. that's the reason if any that you see alot more sixes..

if you are a stongish player that you won't even have to time the ball that well to get a six half the time.

 

[Majin]

The first big six I remember was from 2003/4, whenver it was that the West Indies were in South Africa. (Same time as India were in Australia I think, around then anyway.)

I just remember Merv Dillion coming out to bat in one of the ODI's and launching I *think* Andre Nel straight out of the ground and into the road. It's always more fun when tailenders are the ones belting the ball out of the ground. And Brett Lee hit some beauties in the Ashes.

 

[Jono]

Its amazing when you look at Afridi and Flintoff's 6 per innings stats. That's unbelievable.

 

[nightprowler10]

Are you sure that list is correct??

How can you question my list when your's replicates mine?

 

[Eclipse]

How can you question my list when your's replicates mine?

Mine are two seperate lists and to be honest i didn't bother to work them out..

However it';s very clear why the players you mentioned have more than others.. It's just weight of matches and the small grounds they play on.. Tendulkar for instance has alot but both he and Inzy still average slightly less sixes per match than Kallis and Ponting who haven't played as many matches.