Most Sixes in 2024 in All Formats Combined: Power Hitting Records

Six-hitting became an even bigger part of international cricket in 2024. T20Is naturally produced the largest volume of maximums, but aggressive batting also influenced ODI and Test cricket. Batters were no longer waiting only for the final overs to attack; openers regularly targeted the boundary from the start, while even Test players increasingly used sixes to put pressure back on bowlers.

The year’s overall international six-hitting leaderboard included both established stars and players from emerging cricket nations. UAE captain **Muhammad Waseem finished No. 1 with 61 international sixes**, while Australia’s Travis Head and India’s Yashasvi Jaiswal shared second place with 52 each. Hong Kong’s Babar Hayat and Afghanistan’s Rahmanullah Gurbaz completed the top five with 50 maximums apiece.

The list also highlights how international cricket has expanded. Players representing UAE, Hong Kong, USA and Japan competed directly with stars from India, Australia, Afghanistan and West Indies for the year’s six-hitting crown.

Most Sixes in 2024 Across All International Formats

The final combined leaderboard places Waseem on 61 sixes, followed by Head and Jaiswal on 52, Babar Hayat and Gurbaz on 50, Asif Khan on 46, Andries Gous on 44, Kadowaki-Fleming and Rutherford on 43, and Rohit on 42.

1. Muhammad Waseem – 61 Sixes

Muhammad Waseem was international cricket’s leading six-hitter in 2024.

The UAE captain smashed **61 sixes across international formats**, finishing nine clear of Travis Head and Yashasvi Jaiswal. He accumulated 1,110 international runs during the year and repeatedly gave UAE fast starts at the top of the order.

Most of Waseem’s power came in T20Is.

He struck **55 T20I sixes in 26 matches**, comfortably the highest total in that format during the calendar year. He made 909 T20I runs at a strike rate around 160, showing that his six count was the product of sustained aggressive batting rather than one or two extraordinary innings.

His most important performance came against Oman in the ACC Men’s Premier Cup final.

Waseem made 100 from 56 deliveries, including seven sixes, as UAE secured qualification for the Asia Cup.

His ability to attack fast bowling and spin made him particularly difficult to contain inside the Powerplay. Rather than waiting for loose deliveries, Waseem frequently created six-hitting opportunities by moving across the crease and targeting the straight and leg-side boundaries.

His 61-six year also demonstrated the growing influence of associate nations on global statistical leaderboards.

2. Travis Head – 52 Sixes

Travis Head finished level with Jaiswal on **52 international sixes**, but he reached that total through all three major formats.

Head played 29 internationals during the year and scored 1,399 runs. He combined five fifties with four centuries while continuing the aggressive style that had already made him one of Australia’s most important batters.

His versatility separates his achievement from many others near the top.

Head could attack with the field up in ODIs and T20Is, but he also maintained an aggressive scoring method in Test cricket.

His 2024 T20 World Cup campaign included 15 sixes in seven innings, placing him joint-third on the tournament’s six-hitting leaderboard behind Nicholas Pooran and Rahmanullah Gurbaz.

Head’s technique makes his power particularly effective.

He does not depend on an enormous backswing. Instead, he uses fast hands and strong contact through the off side while also pulling short bowling over square leg.

That allows him to hit sixes without abandoning conventional cricket shots.

3. Yashasvi Jaiswal – 52 Sixes

Yashasvi Jaiswal’s 52 sixes were remarkable because **36 came in Test cricket**.

No batter had ever hit more Test sixes in a calendar year.

Jaiswal played 15 Tests in 2024 and finished the year with 36 maximums in the format, comfortably ahead of Kamindu Mendis on 21.

The defining period came during India’s home series against England.

Jaiswal smashed 26 sixes across the five Tests, setting a record for the most sixes by a batter in a bilateral Test series.

His most spectacular innings was 214* at Rajkot.

Jaiswal struck **12 sixes**, equalling Wasim Akram’s long-standing record for the most maximums in a single Test innings.

He was not simply slogging.

Jaiswal used his feet against spin, attacked straight down the ground and punished anything short from the fast bowlers.

His remaining sixes came in T20Is, giving him 52 across 23 international matches and 37 innings.

Few players better represented the merging of red-ball technique and white-ball aggression during 2024.

4. Babar Hayat – 50 Sixes

Hong Kong’s Babar Hayat finished joint-fourth with **50 international sixes**.

All 50 came in T20Is, where he played 23 matches, scored 651 runs and maintained a strike rate above 137.

His most explosive innings came against Nepal.

Hayat scored 110 from only 49 balls and launched **13 sixes**, one of the highest single-innings six counts recorded in international cricket during the year.

He followed that with another destructive display against Malaysia, scoring 83 from 35 balls with nine sixes.

Those performances explain how he reached 50 despite playing fewer matches than Waseem.

Hayat’s presence near the top of the global leaderboard also reinforces the importance of expanded T20I status. More nations now play regular international schedules, and their best players can challenge Full Member stars in annual records.

5. Rahmanullah Gurbaz – 50 Sixes

Rahmanullah Gurbaz also finished with **50 sixes across international cricket in 2024**.

Unlike Hayat, Gurbaz accumulated his total across both ODIs and T20Is.

He hit **22 sixes in ODIs**, the second-highest total in that format, while his aggressive T20 batting supplied the rest.

Gurbaz scored 531 ODI runs in 11 matches, including three centuries.

His ability to convert starts into big hundreds made him especially valuable for Afghanistan.

He also had an excellent T20 World Cup.

Gurbaz struck **16 sixes during the tournament**, second only to Nicholas Pooran’s 17, while scoring 281 runs as Afghanistan reached their first men’s T20 World Cup semi-final.

Gurbaz’s batting is naturally suited to six-hitting.

He attacks spinners down the ground, pulls pace aggressively and is willing to use the crease to create favorable lengths.

His 50-six calendar year demonstrated that he was becoming one of international cricket’s most dangerous multi-format opening batters.

Other Leading Six-Hitters in 2024

Asif Khan gave UAE a second player inside the top six.

He finished with **46 sixes**, including 45 in T20Is. That meant UAE had both the No. 1 and No. 6 players on the combined international leaderboard.

USA wicketkeeper-batter Andries Gous hit 44 maximums across ODIs and T20Is. His 2024 T20I numbers included 598 runs from 20 matches and 32 sixes, while his ODI appearances added another six.

Japan captain Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming struck 43 sixes in 20 T20I innings. His highlights included an unbeaten 109 against China containing 11 maximums.

Sherfane Rutherford also hit 43 across formats, with his **23 ODI sixes putting him at the top of the 2024 ODI leaderboard** alongside Pathum Nissanka in final statistical tables.

Rohit Sharma completed the top ten with 42 international sixes. His year included another historic milestone when he became the first batter to reach 600 career sixes in international cricket.

Most Sixes in a Single International Innings in 2024

Several extraordinary innings contributed to the year’s six-hitting explosion.

Finn Allen’s 16-Six Assault

New Zealand opener Finn Allen produced one of the year’s most spectacular innings against Pakistan.

He smashed **16 sixes in his 137**, putting him among the most destructive T20I innings ever recorded.

Darius Visser’s 14 Sixes

Samoa’s Darius Visser made 132 against Vanuatu and hit 14 sixes.

The innings also included an extraordinary over worth **39 runs**, with Visser striking six sixes as three no-balls helped push the total beyond the traditional 36-run maximum from six legal deliveries.

Jaiswal’s Test Record

Jaiswal’s 12 sixes against England were especially significant because they came in Test cricket.

He equalled the all-time Test innings record previously held alone by Wasim Akram.

Format-Wise Six Leaders in 2024

The three international formats produced very different leaders.

Tests – Yashasvi Jaiswal

Jaiswal’s 36 Test sixes set a calendar-year record.

Kamindu Mendis followed with 21, while Glenn Phillips and Shubman Gill hit 18 each.

The gap between Jaiswal and the rest shows just how unusual his year was.

ODIs – Rutherford and Nissanka

Final ODI statistics list Sherfane Rutherford and Pathum Nissanka on **23 sixes each**, with Afghanistan opener Gurbaz just behind on 22.

Nissanka’s eight sixes in his unbeaten 210 against Afghanistan were one of the highlights of the ODI year.

T20Is – Muhammad Waseem

Waseem dominated the T20I category with **55 sixes**.

Babar Hayat followed with 50, Asif Khan with 45 and Kadowaki-Fleming with 43.

Waseem’s performance was particularly impressive because he combined six-hitting with consistent run production, finishing with 909 T20I runs.

Famous Six-Hitting Moments of 2024

Rohit Sharma Destroys Australia

Rohit’s 92 against Australia in the T20 World Cup included eight sixes.

He reached fifty from 19 balls and produced the most sixes ever by an Indian in a men’s T20 World Cup innings. His eighth six also helped underline his position as the first player to surpass 200 career T20I maximums.

The innings was especially memorable because it came in a crucial Super Eight match.

Dipendra Singh Airee Hits Six Sixes in an Over

Nepal’s Dipendra Singh Airee joined one of cricket’s most exclusive lists in April.

He struck Qatar’s Kamran Khan for **six sixes in one over**, becoming only the third batter after Yuvraj Singh and Kieron Pollard to achieve the feat in men’s T20Is.

Rutherford Rescues West Indies

Sherfane Rutherford’s unbeaten 68 against New Zealand in the T20 World Cup contained six sixes.

West Indies had collapsed to 76/7, but Rutherford changed the game and lifted them to 149/9. They eventually won by 13 runs.

This was six-hitting with a different purpose. Rutherford was not attacking from a position of strength; he was rescuing an innings under pressure.

Pooran Leads the T20 World Cup

Nicholas Pooran hit **17 sixes in the 2024 T20 World Cup**, the most ever by a batter in one edition of the tournament.

Although he did not make the all-format top ten for the full calendar year, his World Cup power-hitting was one of the defining features of the competition.

How Six-Hitting Changed International Cricket in 2024

The year demonstrated that six-hitting is no longer limited to traditional power hitters.

Jaiswal used maximums as an attacking weapon in Tests.

Head maintained his power across three formats.

Gurbaz mixed ODI accumulation with T20 aggression.

Waseem and Hayat showed that associate cricket can produce players with elite boundary-hitting numbers.

The tactical impact is significant.

Teams increasingly prefer batters who can turn a 10-run over into a 16-run over with one clean swing. In T20Is, that can completely alter a chase.

Even Test cricket has changed.

A batter capable of hitting spinners for six can quickly force a captain to move fielders from catching positions to the boundary. That reduces wicket-taking pressure and opens more opportunities for singles.

Jaiswal’s record-setting year provided perhaps the clearest example.

Six-hitting is therefore no longer simply a finishing skill. In modern international cricket, it can be a method of controlling the game in every format.

FAQs

Who hit the most international sixes in 2024?

Muhammad Waseem of the UAE led international cricket with 61 sixes across formats in 2024.

How many sixes did Travis Head hit in 2024?

Travis Head hit 52 international sixes during the year, finishing level with India’s Yashasvi Jaiswal.

Who hit the most Test sixes in 2024?

Yashasvi Jaiswal led Test cricket with 36 sixes, setting a new record for the most Test maximums in a calendar year.

Who hit the most T20I sixes in 2024?

Muhammad Waseem topped the T20I list with 55 sixes for UAE, ahead of Babar Hayat’s 50.

Who hit the most sixes in one international innings in 2024?

Finn Allen hit 16 sixes during his 137 against Pakistan in a T20I, the highest single-innings six count among the year’s leading international performances.

How many sixes did Rohit Sharma hit in international cricket in 2024?

Rohit Sharma hit 42 international sixes across formats and also became the first batter to reach 600 career international sixes during the year.