Jos Buttler joins T20 cricket's exclusive 600-six club with a timely fifty in Delhi
There were plenty of headline moments inside the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Wednesday, but the one that will age best sits on a career-stats page rather than a scorecard. Jos Buttler's 52 off 27 for Gujarat Titans was not just his first T20 fifty in 16 innings. It was the knock that made him the fifth man in the history of the men's T20 game to hit 600 sixes.
Buttler passed the milestone during a fluent innings that contained three fours and five sixes at a strike rate of nearly 193. The half-century itself was reached inside 25 deliveries and gave Gujarat the kind of powerplay acceleration that had been missing from their first couple of games of IPL 2026. By the time he fell, the platform for a 200-plus total was already in place.
The company he joins
The list of men who have cleared 600 sixes in T20 cricket still reads almost exclusively as a West Indies one. Chris Gayle sits at the very top with more than a thousand, followed by Kieron Pollard, Andre Russell and Nicholas Pooran. Pooran was the most recent addition to the club before Buttler, getting there during the 2025 season.
Buttler is the first non-West Indian to join that group, which is a useful way to think about how long his T20 career has already run. He made his T20I debut for England back in 2011 and has been a fixture of every major franchise league since, from the IPL and Big Bash to the Hundred and the ILT20. That he has got to 600 without the raw six-hitting reputation of the Caribbean quartet says something about consistency as much as power.
Why it matters to Gujarat
The timing of the knock matters as much as the milestone. Buttler came into the game on the back of a quiet run, with 16 T20 innings since his last fifty, and the noise around his form had started to grow. Cricket does not tend to wait very long before it starts asking questions of openers who are not scoring. A 52 off 27 is not going to silence every critic on its own, but it is the kind of innings that tends to unlock the next five or six.
Gujarat will take that more than anything. They came into this match looking for their first win of the season and left with two points, a captain's fifty from Gill, a maiden IPL fifty for Washington Sundar and the sense that their most explosive overseas bat might be about to hit his stride. If Buttler's next few innings look anything like this one, the 600 club will soon feel like a waypoint rather than a destination.
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