Longest Six In Cricket In All Formats

Hitting sixes is an art for any batter, where he needs to muscle and time the ball perfectly to get it clear the ropes for a six. However, it’s not an easy process as it requires a lot of strength training exercise and strength to hit the ball over the ropes, where in this process a batter can get caught too if the ball hasn’t been timed perfectly. Today, through this news article, we are going to take you to the 5 players who have hit the longest six in cricket history.

5 Players who have hit longest six in Cricket history:

1. Shahid Afridi

Shahid Afridi was known for his powerful batting style in International cricket, where he dominated bowlers by playing aggressively in front of them and picking key wickets in the middle overs for his team. The Pakistani all-rounder batter has represented the Pakistan cricket team from 1996 to 2012 in 16 long years where he has made numerous records under his name from youngest player to score a hundred in the ODI format at the age of just 16 years 217 days to having most sixes in 50-overs format.

But you might not be aware that the former Pakistan captain also holds the record for hitting the longest six in cricket history, which he made in 2013 after hitting six of 153 meters against South Africa on the ball of Ryan McLare.

2. Brett Lee

The second name in this list is going to shock you as this cricketer is one of the highest wicket taker for the Australian team, who has dominated the cricket world for a long time with his sheer pace and lethal bouncers. 

Yes! We are talking about Australian fast bowler Brett Lee, who represented the Men in Yellow for over 13 years from 1999 to 2013, where he was also part of the Australian ICC World Cup winning team of 2003, ICC Champions trophy of 2006 and 2009. 

Having more than 310 Test wickets and 380 One Day wickets is regarded as one of the best player of all time from the Australian team. Brett Lee also holds the record for hitting the second-longest six in cricket history, 130 metres which he hit against Australia’s arch-rivals England during the 2005 Ashes Test at Edgbaston, where he saved the Men in Yellow by playing a match-winning knock against the Englishmen.

3. Martin Guptill 

New Zealand’s opening batter Martin Guptill has been one of the most destructive batters around the world having a double hundred under his name against West Indies in just 163 balls, which includes 24 boundaries and 11 sixes with a strike rate of 145 plus in 2015 shows what kind of batsmen he was for the New Zealand cricket team.

You might not be aware that the right-hand batter has only two toes on his left toe as he lost three toes in a forklift accident when 13 years old. Despite having this he has made numerous records for the Kiwis and made every cricket fan entertained with his aggressive batting style. Guptill is the first and the only batter from the Black Caps team to score a double hundred in ODI cricket World Cup matches.

Guptill also holds the record for hitting the third longest six in cricket history of 127 meters against South Africa in a T20I match in 2013 on the ball of Lonwabo Tsotsobe. However, the opening batter has announced retirement from international cricket on November 26th from all formats after a long cricketing career of 13 years, where he has scored more than 12000 runs in all formats including 23 centuries.

4. Liam Livingstone

On number 4 we have an England player known for his six-hitting ability in international cricket who played several match-winning knocks for his team in difficult circumstances and picked crucial wickets with his leg-break bowling. Making his name with 350 off 138 balls for his club team Nantwich, in 2015, the right-hand-batter has come a long way in international cricket. Livingston showed his prowess against Pakistan while hitting a six off 122 meters, which was the fourth-longest six in cricket history on the ball of Haris Rauf. However, despite of known for his power hitting the England batter is nowhere in the list of players to score most runs in IPL 2024.

5. Corey Anderson

Corey Anderson represented the New Zealand cricket team from 2012 to 2017 before retiring and playing for the USA. Anderson was a top all-rounder for the Kiwis, who used to play aggressively in front of bowlers and pick wickets for his team in the middle overs of the innings with his left-arm medium-pace bowling.

Anderson scored the fastest ODI century in 2014 against West Indies in just 36 balls, which left the cricket fans speechless. But he used to love playing at Indian condition, where in 2014, he hit the fifth-longest six in cricket history against Men in Blue.