Who have been the hardest hitters - EVER?
By Atul Kahate
21 January 1999
The devastating innings by Chris Cairns the other day in the last Bank
of New Zealand Series match prompted this query: Who have been the
hardest hitters in Limited Overs International Cricket to date? Of
course, one way to determine this is the Number of runs scored per 100
balls (Strike Rate). But there have been no statistics of the number
of boundaries (sixes/fours) hit by batsmen in their entire
career. This is really an intersting question to which the following
tables provide an answer. However, it must be noted that out of the
1388 LOI matches played so far (as on 20 January 1999), there are some
early matches for which the details such as fours and sixes hit and
balls faced cannot be traced.
Sachin Tendulkar tops the list of fours (774), whereas Viv Richards
(121) is the only batsman to hit over 100 sixes, although Sanath
Jayasuriya needs just one more to reach the three-figure
mark. Tendulkar himself is not far behind (96).
Perhaps it would be noteworthy that out of the 7800 runs scored by
Sachin Tendulkar so far, 39.69% have come from boundaris alone! (774
fours = 3096 runs and 96 sixes = 576 runs, total 3672 in boundaries).
Most Fours in a Career
Batsman Team Fours
SR Tendulkar Ind 774
DL Haynes WI 724
Saeed Anwar Pak 599
PA de Silva SL 591
M Azharuddin Ind 577
BC Lara WI 573
IVA Richards WI 573
RB Richardson WI 523
Salim Malik Pak 507
AR Border Aus 499
DC Boon Aus 496
A Ranatunga SL 492
ST Jayasuriya SL 467
Ramiz Raja Pak 465
Aamir Sohail Pak 448
Javed Miandad Pak 447
Ijaz Ahmed, Sr Pak 446
Inzamam-ul-Haq Pak 431
ME Waugh Aus 416
CG Greenidge WI 414
K Srikkanth Ind 403
Most Sixes in a Career
Batsman Team Sixes
IVA Richards WI 121
ST Jayasuriya SL 99
SR Tendulkar Ind 96
PA de Silva SL 86
CG Greenidge WI 77
Wasim Akram Pak 76
Saeed Anwar Pak 75
Ijaz Ahmed, Sr Pak 73
M Azharuddin Ind 70
Inzamam-ul-Haq Pak 67
Kapil Dev Ind 66
WJ Cronje SA 64
A Ranatunga SL 62
DM Jones Aus 61
Shahid Afridi Pak 59
CL Cairns NZ 59
AD Jadeja Ind 55
RB Richardson WI 53
DL Haynes WI 51
Contributed by: Atul Kahate (AKahate@yahoo.com)
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