Tim Southee’s single six in the principal innings of the Galle Test between Sri Lanka and New Zealand helped him coordinate Sachin Tendulkar’s count of sixes in the longest configuration of the game. Tim Southee strolled down the pitch to hit Dhananjaya de Silva for a most extreme on Day 2 of the principal Test, rising to Sachin Tendulkar’s count of 69 sixes in Test cricket. Curiously, Tim Southee took 66 matches and 96 innings to accomplish the accomplishment while Tendulkar accomplished it in the wake of playing 200 Tests and batting multiple times.
Southee has just outperformed previous cricketers AB de Villiers, Sanath Jayasuriya and Ian Botham in the rundown of most sixes in Test cricket. He is presently set seventeenth in the rundown of most six-hitters in this organization.
Southee contributed 18 keeps running off 22 balls in New Zealand’s first innings aggregate of 249 keeps running before being run out. He, in any case, neglected to pick any wickets as hosts Sri Lanka posted 267 keeps running in their first innings.
The 30-year-old Southee has 1550 Test runs, with the high score of an unbeaten 77. He has hit five half-hundreds of years in the longest organization and grabbed 244 wickets.
Previous New Zealand opener Brendon McCullum drives the count of most sixes in Test cricket with 107 to his name.
Among the Indian batsmen, Virender Sehwag drives the diagram with 91 sixes pursued by MS Dhoni (78).
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