Most sixes in T20 cricket: Chris Gayle’s 1,056 still leads

Gayle hit them in 463 matches between 2005 and 2022, and has not played a Twenty20 since. The man closest to him has not stopped: Kieron Pollard is on 1,010 and still playing.

Most sixes in T20 cricket: the all-time list

These figures cover every men’s Twenty20 match — internationals, the IPL, the CPL, the Big Bash and every other domestic league — and are current to the start of September 2026.

Player	Span	Mat	Runs	Sixes
Chris Gayle	2005-2022	463	14,562	1,056
Kieron Pollard	2006-2026	751	14,933	1,010
Andre Russell	2010-2026	607	9,919	808
Nicholas Pooran	2013-2026	482	11,439	793
Jos Buttler	2009-2026	526	14,890	655
Colin Munro	2010-2026	481	12,498	619
Alex Hales	2009-2026	534	14,549	604
Glenn Maxwell	2010-2026	521	11,202	582
Rohit Sharma	2007-2026	472	12,531	568
David Miller	2008-2026	577	12,262	561
Quinton de Kock	2011-2026	457	12,773	551
Liam Livingstone	2015-2026	363	8,451	531
David Warner	2007-2026	439	14,284	505
Chris Lynn	2010-2026	320	9,268	491
Brendon McCullum	2005-2019	370	9,922	485

Gayle’s record is 46 sixes from changing hands

The gap at the top is smaller than it looks, because only one of the two men is still batting. Pollard has played 751 T20s to Gayle’s 463 and is 46 short. Nobody else is within 200.

Gayle’s rate is what keeps him there. He hit 2.3 sixes an innings across his career. Pollard, batting lower and often for only a handful of balls, has needed 668 innings for his 1,010 — 1.5 an innings.

Both men have now done something this page used to say only Gayle had done: score 14,000 T20 runs and hit 1,000 sixes. Pollard’s 14,933 runs are the most of anyone on the list above, and Jos Buttler’s 14,890 are not far behind.

Most sixes in T20 Internationals

Player	Team	Span	Mat	Sixes
Karanbir Singh	Austria	2024-2026	65	214
Rohit Sharma	India	2007-2024	159	205
Muhammad Waseem	UAE	2021-2026	99	196
Jos Buttler	England	2011-2026	160	186
Suryakumar Yadav	India	2021-2026	113	179
Martin Guptill	New Zealand	2009-2022	122	173
Babar Hayat	Hong Kong	2014-2026	112	166
Syed Aziz	Malaysia	2019-2026	128	157
Rovman Powell	West Indies	2017-2026	120	156
Glenn Maxwell	Australia	2012-2026	130	150
Sikandar Raza	Zimbabwe	2013-2026	142	150
Nicholas Pooran	West Indies	2016-2024	106	149

Rohit Sharma is no longer the leading six-hitter in T20 Internationals. Austria’s Karanbir Singh has 214, nine more than Rohit’s 205, and he has taken 65 matches to do it against Rohit’s 159. Rohit played his last T20I in 2024, so the number he finished on is the number he keeps.

The reason a name from Austria sits at the top of a batting record is the same one that reshaped the bowling lists: since 1 January 2019 every match between ICC member nations counts as a T20I, so European and Asian Associate sides now play a full international calendar against each other. Karanbir Singh has struck at 174 across 64 innings in it.

India still have two batters in the top five. Rohit is second, and Suryakumar Yadav is fifth on 179 from 113 matches, and is 26 behind Rohit’s mark with his career still running.

Most sixes in the IPL

Player	Span	Mat	Runs	Sixes
Chris Gayle	2009-2021	142	4,965	357
Rohit Sharma	2008-2026	281	7,329	323
Virat Kohli	2008-2026	283	9,336	316
MS Dhoni	2008-2025	278	5,439	264
AB de Villiers	2008-2021	184	5,162	251
Sanju Samson	2013-2026	191	5,181	243
KL Rahul	2013-2026	159	5,815	239
David Warner	2009-2024	184	6,565	236
Kieron Pollard	2010-2022	189	3,412	223
Andre Russell	2012-2025	140	2,651	223

Gayle leads here too, on 357 from 142 matches, but this is the record most likely to fall next. Rohit Sharma is 34 behind and Virat Kohli 41 behind, and both were still playing in the 2026 IPL season. Gayle last played in the competition in 2021.

The efficiency gap is the story of the table. Gayle’s 357 came in 142 matches. Rohit has needed 281 and Kohli 283, and Sanju Samson and KL Rahul are the other two active names in the top seven.

Most sixes in a single T20 innings

The record for one innings is 19 sixes, by Finn Allen, in a 151 from 51 balls against Washington at Oakland in June 2025.

Gayle has the next two: 18 sixes in an unbeaten 146 at Mirpur in December 2017, and 17 in the innings he is best remembered for — 175 not out from 66 balls for Royal Challengers Bangalore against Pune at Bengaluru in April 2013. Sahil Chauhan also hit 18, in a 144 not out from 41 balls against Cyprus in June 2024.

For the bowling side of the same format, see our list of the players with the most wickets in T20Is.

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