CSK vs RCB, IPL 2020 Match 25: Out of the 300 sixes MS Dhoni has hit so far, just 52 have come for Team India while 214 have been hit in the Indian Premier League.
CSK captain MS Dhoni is the 23rd batsman to hit 300 or more sixes in T20 cricket (Courtesy- BCCI)
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- Chris Gayle has hit most number of sixes in T20 cricket
- MS Dhoni is 3rd on the list of batsmen with most number of sixes in IPL
- CSK captain MS Dhoni is the 23rd batsman to smash 300 sixes in T20 cricket
Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Wednesday added yet another feather to his cap as a batsman after he completed 300 sixes in T20 cricket during Match 25 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi.
Dhoni hit Yuzvendra Chahal for a six off the 3rd ball of the 16th over during CSK’s 170-run chase to become the 23rd batsman to enter the elite list of T20 superstars.
Out of the 300 maximums Dhoni has hit so far, just 52 have come for Team India while 214 have been hit in the IPL.
Dhoni is the third Indian after Mumbai Indians’ Rohit Sharma (375 sixes) and his CSK teammate Suresh Raina (311) to hit 300 sixes but the CSK skipper is the quickest out of the 3 to achieve the feat. Dhoni has taken 12 years to reach the milestone while Rohit and Raina have both taken a year more than him.
Before this game Dhoni had played 323 T20s in which he amassed 6723 runs at an average of 40.01 and a strike rate of 135.51 with 27 half-centuries.
The list is headed by none other than West Indies legend Chris Gayle with 978 sixes from 404 matches.
Apart from being the leading six-hitter, Gayle owns almost all of the batting records in the shortest format including the most runs (13,296), most hundreds (22), most fifties (82), and most fours (1026).
Gayle is also the leading six-hitter in IPL cricket with 326 sixes in 125 matches, ahead of Royal Challengers Bangalore’s AB de Villiers (219) and Dhoni (214) with Rohit (208) and Raina (194) completing the top-five.