West Indies wicketkeeper-batter Nicholas Pooran continued his rich form in T20 cricket. Pooran, while batting in the Caribbean Premier League 2024, shattered the 9-year-old record of Chris Gayle for hitting most sixes in a calendar year. Pooran, who hit 9 sixes in his innings vs St Kitts and Nevis Patriots on Saturday, August 31, already has 139 sixes in 2024.
Pooran crossed Gayle’s record of 135 sixes, which has stood since 2015. The legendary West Indies batter has multiple entries in the list. Out of the top 10 entries, 6 belong to Gayle – for hitting the most sixes in a single year.
This was the first time that Nicholas Pooran was able to break into the top 10 in the list. Pooran has played for 8 T20 teams this season including the West Indies national team and has hit 139 sixes in 58 matches. The batter has 13 fifties to his name but is yet to score a hundred this year. Pooran is head and shoulder above the rest in terms of scoring runs. He has 1844 runs to his name this year and is expected to cross the 2000-run barrier.
| Player | Sixes | Year |
| Nicholas Pooran | 139* | 2024 |
| Chris Gayle | 135 | 2015 |
| Chris Gayle | 121 | 2012 |
| Chris Gayle | 116 | 2011 |
| Chris Gayle | 112 | 2016 |
| Chris Gayle | 101 | 2017 |
| Andre Russell | 101 | 2019 |
| Chris Gayle | 100 | 2013 |
| Glenn Phillips | 97 | 2021 |
| Kieron Pollard | 96 | 2019 |
Pooran crossed Gayle’s record in the 12th over of the CPL match, when he went down on one knee and smashed Tabraiz Shamsi over the leg side for his 6th six of the night. Pooran brought up his fifty in 21 balls as well.
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The batter has been in sensational form throughout the year and played several important innings for LSG in the previous season of the Indian Premier League. Pooran scored 499 runs in the 2024 season at a massive strike-rate of 178.21. In the tournament, Pooran had hit 36 sixes.
Despite his best efforts, the wicketkeeper batter was not able to guide West Indies team to a victory in the home T20 World Cup. Windies were knocked out in the Super 8 stages after loses to South Africa and England. In the England match, Windies were outplayed by the batting might of Phil Salt, who helped England chase down 181 runs with 15 balls left.