West Indies batter Nicholas Pooran has become the first batsman in T20 cricket history to score more than 150 sixes in a calendar year. So far this year, the left-handed batter has smacked 151 maximums in just 63 innings and is bound to add more with the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) in progress. Pooran is playing for Trinbago Knight Riders in the tournament and crossed the 150 sixes mark during his unbeaten 93-run knock off 43 balls against St Kitts and Nevis Patriots in the 25th match of the season.
Pooran smashed seven sixes during his match-winning innings to create history. A couple of games, he had also ended Chris Gayle's supremacy becoming the player to hit most sixes in a calendar year. Gayle had smacked 135 sixes in a single calendar year and he is the only player to hit more than 100 or more sixes in a year a staggering six times.
Most sixes in a calendar year
| Players |
Sixes |
Year |
| Nicholas Pooran |
151 |
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 |
Coming back to Nicholas Pooran, during his 93-run knock, he also completed 2000 T20 runs this year becoming only the second player to do so. Pakistan's Mohammad Rizwan is the first player to cross the 2000-run mark in a calendar year and he did it in 2021. Rizwan had amassed 2036 runs in only 45 innings at an average of 56.55 with a century and 18 fifties to his name.
Pooran has a great chance to break this all-time record as well with Trinbago Knight Riders scheduled to play St Lucia Kings in the 26th match of CPL 2024 on Tuesday (September 24). The southpaw is in great form in the ongoing CPL edition having scored 275 runs in only seven matches at a strike rate of 176.28 and will be keen on breaking more records by the end of 2024.
