Cricket World: Do you know who has hit most sixes in his T20 career?

The answer is

"BRENDON McCULLUM"

BRENDON McCULLUM

17 February 2005 was when first Twenty20 International cricket match was played, at Auckland where Australia beat the home team New Zealand by 44 runs. Over years since that day, we cricket fans have realized that Twenty20 cricket is more than just "hit out" or "get out" game. but, that said, big hits still receive the most applauds..

Mind you, no more than six runs you can make off a single ball (unless it's a no-ball which will make it 7 runs off 1 ball). For Twenty20 matches, teams tend to select players with ability to the send ball out of the ground.

This gives us one obvious question == which batsman has hit most sixes in T20 cricket?

Brendon McCullum of New Zealand holds the record with Yuvraj Singh of India close behind. Interestingly, as you can see in the table below, Yuvraj has played half as many games as Brendon. Another Kiwi, Ross Taylor, is also jumping up the ladder pretty quickly although third Kiwi in top 10 six hitters, Jacob Oram, has lost his touch a bit in recent times. Chris Gayle of West Indies and David Warner of Australia are also in contention to hold the record someday.

Note : Yuvraj Singh of India is the only batsman to hit 6 sixes in one over. he did it against Stuart Broad of England on 19 September 2007 at Durban in South Africa. Chris Gayle, Brendon McCullum and Suresh Raina are only three batsmen to score a century in T20 Cricket.

Note : following list is limited to cricketers who have hit more than 25 sixes in their Twenty20 cricket career.. Those with 20 to 24 sixes in career like JP Duminy of South Africa, Sanath Jayasuriya of Sri Lanka, Hamilton Masakadza of Zimbabwe and Abdul Razzaq of Pakistan are ignored in this elite list of powerful hitters!

Most sixes by a batsman in twenty20 international cricket career.
Batsman (Country)	Sixes	Mts	Best	100s	50s	S.rate
Brendon McCullum (NZ)	53	46	116*	1	8	131.68
Yuvraj Singh (India)	38	23	70	0	5	151.60
Cameron White (Aus)	36	29	85*	0	3	139.51
David Warner (Aus)	35	31	89	0	5	142.00
Chris Gayle (WI)	34	20	117	1	5	144.49
Shane Watson (Aus)	34	25	81	0	6	151.85
Martin Guptill (NZ)	33	28	91*	0	4	126.15
David Hussey (Aus)	33	34	88*	0	3	122.16
Ross Taylor (NZ)	31	39	63	0	3	117.22
Kevin Pietersen (Eng)	30	33	79	0	6	142.81
Albie Morkel (SA)	29	33	43	0	0	141.61
Shahid Afridi (Pak)	29	45	54*	0	3	144.04
Suresh Raina (India)	26	24	101	1	3	138.83
Graeme Smith (SA)	26	33	89*	0	5	127.83
Misbah-ul-Haq (Pak)	25	36	87*	0	3	113.90
Scott Styris (NZ)	25	31	66	0	1	119.66
Kamran Akmal (Pak)	25	38	73	0	5	124.60

BRENDON McCULLUM SUPER SIXES VS SAUN TAIT

Brendon Barrie McCullum (born 27 September 1981 in Dunedin) is a New Zealand international cricketer, who plays for the Otago Volts at provincial level. He is a wicket-keeper, as well as an aggressive batsman who opens in One-day Internationals and is known for his fast scoring rate. His brother Nathan McCullum is also a first-class and international cricketer at provincial level, and their father Stuart McCullum was a long-serving first-class player for Otago. Both Brendon and Nathan attended King's High School, Dunedin.
McCullum also played for Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League in the first three; but in 2010, he was signed in by Kochi Tuskers Kerala. He scored 158 not out in the inaugural match of the competition on 18 April 2008. The innings is currently the world highest score by a batsman in a Twenty20 match.
He also has the ability to play the Dilscoop, which involves the batsman squatting down and scooping deliveries back over the wicketkeeper's head. Playing this shot in a Twenty20 International match on 28 February 2010, against Australia, he managed to hit Shaun Tait for two sixes in an over back over Brad Haddin's head and can also execute reverse sweep well.

BRENDON McCULLUM 116* VS AUSTRALIA

Domestic career

England for the test series, he was involved in the State Shield Final versus Auckland Aces, in scoring 170 runs for the Otago Volts to help beat the Aces at Eden Park's outer oval, and helped to chased down a daunting total of 310 for 7, he broke multiple State Shield batting records.

State Shield (One Day) (off 52 balls), including 14 fours and 5 sixes.

When he got to 135, he scored the highest individual runs for an Otago Volts player.

When he got to 162, he scored the highest score by any player in a domestic one-day match (Shell or State competitions) overtaking Blair Hartland's previous record.

He went on to score 170 runs, including 19 fours and 7 sixes.

McCullum played for Glamorgan in 2006 and he scored 160 opening the batting against Leicestershire in the County Championship.
On 24 January 2009, he lined up for New South Wales in the final of Australia's KFC Twenty20 Big Bash. This was an exercise to allow him to be eligible to play for them in the Twenty20 Champions League. This sparked criticism however despite opinion States are permitted to have one overseas player in their squad. McCullum also donated his match fee from the game to Otago Junior Cricket.
On 16 January 2010 during the 2009-10 HRV Cup, vs Auckland Aces at University Oval, McCullum hit 108 not out off 67 deliveries, which included 10 fours and four sixes to lead Otago Volts to victory with three balls to spare. McCullum reached his 50 off 32 deliveries and his century off 65 deliveries.

Career highlights

In 2003 he played in a Test series against England and scored what was then his highest score, an innings of 96 at Lord's. His maiden Test century came several months later when he scored 143 against Bangladesh. He fell just short of his second Test hundred in a game against Sri Lanka when dismissed one short of his hundred. His second century would later come with a run a ball 111 against Zimbabwe.
He was selected in the 20-man ICC World XI squad for the ICC Super Series in July 2005.
In March 2006, he was charged with bringing the game into disrepute during an ODI against West Indies, but was found not guilty.
On 20 February 2007, he scored 86 not out as New Zealand went on to be the first team to whitewash Australia in a 3 match ODI series since 1997. He struck a massive six off the first ball of the last over against Nathan Bracken to level the scores, before he finished it off with a boundary. In his matchwinning innings he partnered Craig McMillan to a world record equalling 6th wicket partnership of 165.
On 21 March 2007, he set a new World Cup record, by smashing 50 runs from just 20 balls against Canada in St Lucia. He finished his innings with 52 runs from 21 balls, including 10 fours and 5 sixes, with a strike rate of 247.61. The previous record had been set by Mark Boucher (South Africa) against The Netherlands on 16 March (50 runs from 21 balls).
On 14 December 2007 he scored 96 (103) against Australia. He was caught by Nathan Bracken off the bowling of Brad Hogg after 35.3 overs.
On 31 December 2007 he scored 50 from just 19 balls against Bangladesh. He finished his innings with 80 runs from only 28 balls, including 9 fours and 6 sixes with a strike rate of 285.71 resulting in a 10 wicket win: chasing 93 from 50 overs and achieving it making 95 from only 6 overs.
On 12 February 2008 he scored 50 from 27 balls against England. He finished his innings with 80 runs from only 47 balls, including 8 fours and 5 sixes with a strike rate of 170.21 resulting in a 10 wicket win and giving New Zealand a 2 nil lead in the 5 match series.
On 18 April 2008, he claimed the record for highest individual score in a Twenty20 innings, scoring 158* from only 73 balls, which included 13 sixes and 10 fours in boundaries, for the Kolkata Knight Riders against Bangalore Royal Challengers in the first game of the Indian Premier League helping them get a much deserved 140 run victory.This eclipsed the previous record mark of 141, held by Australian Cameron White, McCullum faced an over White bowled in that match and smashed him for 24, it was White's only over in that match. In the same match he also claimed the record for most sixes (13) in a Twenty20 innings,the most sixes in an individual Twenty20 innings has since been surpassed(16) by Englishman Graham Napier.
On 1 July 2008, he scored his maiden ODI century, eventually getting dismissed for 166 against Ireland. He shared in a 266 run opening stand with James Marshall, which is the highest ODI partnership for any wicket in Black Caps history and the second highest opening partnership in all ODIs.

AMAZING SIXES BY BRENDON MACCULLUM

On 5 April 2009, on day three of the third Test match during India's tour of New Zealand, he displayed an amazing level of alertness in the dismissal of Rahul Dravid. Dravid attempted a sweep shot off Daniel Vettori's bowling, but McCullum saw what Dravid was up to before the ball had even pitched and moved swiftly to his left (Dravid's leg side). Ross Taylor at first slip did the same. The ball came nicely off Dravid's bat, but flew straight into the hands of a waiting Brendon McCullum. A couple of balls earlier, McCullum tried the same thing, but he had been a little slow and Dravid's sweep was kept low. Although there has been some discussion regarding the legality of McCullum's movement before the ball had even pitched, the laws of cricket indicate he was well within his right to do so.
On 6 November 2009, vs Pakistan at Abu Dhabi, McCullum scored his second ODI century (131, 129 balls, 14 4's, 3 6's) to elevate New Zealand to 303 and win the match to level the series.
On 16 February 2010, during the only Test match against Bangladesh, he scored 185, the highest score ever by a New Zealand wicket-keeper in Test cricket. He was also involved in the record highest sixth-wicket partnership for New Zealand of 339 runs with Martin Guptill, missing out on the world record by just 12 runs.
On 27 February 2010, becomes just the second player to score a T20I hundred, finishing 116 not out, one run short of Chris Gayle's record of 117.
On 4 May 2010 McCullum became the first player to score 1000 T20 international runs. He achieved this feat playing against Zimbabwe in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 at Guyana On 28 June 2010, Brendon McCullum said he will not keep wicket for New Zealand in Test matches. He, however informed that he will still keep in 50-overs & T20 over games. This meant that McCullum would have to cement his place in the test team as a batsman. He did a fine job in his first innings since handing over the Wicket-keeping duties he scored 65 runs and was engaged in a 104 run partnership with Ross Taylor he was promoted to the position of opener in tests rather than his usual number 5 position. McCullum did however have experience of opening the innings because he opens for New Zealand in limited-overs cricket

BRENDON McCULLUM FOR KKR

Role

McCullum plays in the side as an opening wicketkeeper-batsman during ODIs and as an opener in Test matches. His glovework improved during his tenure as the incumbent New Zealand Test wicketkeeper. McCullum is very tidy behind the stumps with some outstanding catches to his name. His batting is good enough to earn him selection for the Black Caps alone, shown by the occasions on which he has been unable to keep but has still been selected as a batsman. He opens the batting for New Zealand in ODIs with steadily improving success. He is an aggressive batsman who is particularly strong over extra cover, often lofting the ball into the stands. In 2010 McCullum hung up the gloves In Test cricket due to continued body strain and became a specialist batsmen in Test cricket, opening the innings in his first match as a specialist batsmen aganist India in Ahmedabad. He was described as a player "especially suited to Twenty20 cricket" when he signed for a five-week stint at Glamorgan in June 2006. The stint included the entire domestic 2006 Twenty20 Cup. He was signed up by the Kolkata Knight Riders of the IPL for $700,000. His contract with the IPL is for three years.
During the Twenty20 World Championship in 2009, the wicketkeeping duties was given to Peter McGlashan. He was seen practicing his medium bowling.
McCullum had to decide whether to play for New South Wales, Kolkata or Otago in the 1st edition of the Champions League. Since Kolkata did not qualify, he had only to consider playing for either New South Wales or Otago; eventually he had decided to play for Otago along side brother Nathan McCullum

IPL 2009 :BRENDON McCULLUM FASTEST CENTURY

Personal life
McCullum is married to Ellissa McCullum (née Arthur), an Australian from Caniaba, New South Wales.They have a son Riley and a daughter Maya.

Achievements

Test Centuries

In the column Runs, * indicates being not out.
The column title Match refers to the Match Number of his career.

Brendon McCullum's Test Centuries
#	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year	Result
1	143	7	Bangladesh	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Bangabandhu National Stadium	2004	Won
2	111	16	Zimbabwe	Harare, Zimbabwe	Harare Sports Club	2005	Won
3	115	43	India	Napier, New Zealand	McLean Park	2009	Drawn
4	185	50	Bangladesh	Hamilton, New Zealand	Seddon Park	2010	Won
5	104	51	Australia	Wellington, New Zealand	Basin Reserve	2010	Lost
6	225	54	India	Hyderabad, India	Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium	2010	Drawn

One Day International Centuries

Brendon McCullum's One Day International Centuries
#	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year	Result
1	166	134	Ireland	Aberdeen, Scotland	Mannofield Park	2008	Won
2	131	162	Pakistan	Abu Dhabi, UAE	Sheikh Zayed Stadium	2009	Won
3	101	188	Canada	Mumbai, India	Wankhede Stadium	2011	Won
4	119	198	Zimbabwe	Napier, New Zealand	McLean Park	2012	Won