Vaibhav Sooryavanshi Hits More Sixes per Match Than Abhishek Sharma

Abhishek Sharma has hit more sixes than anyone in T20 cricket in 2026: 129, from 54 matches, at a strike rate of 205.14. That puts him 27 clear of Finn Allen on the 2026 T20 sixes leaderboard, which counts every T20 match Statz covers this year, franchise leagues and internationals together, and ranks 905 players who have cleared the rope at least once.

A season total rewards whoever plays the most as much as whoever hits the hardest. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is third on 94 sixes, but he has played 26 matches to Sharma's 54. Divide each total by matches played, or by balls faced, and the order changes. The figures below are from the board at the time of writing; every per-match and per-ball number is our own simple division of its columns, with the working shown.

Abhishek Sharma leads on volume

129 sixes from 54 matches

Sharma's season is the biggest on the board by most measures that count totals. Alongside the 129 sixes he has 1,717 runs at an average of 33.02, 159 fours and three hundreds, from 837 balls faced. A strike rate of 205.14 means he scores at better than two runs a ball, and only one batter in the top ten scores faster.

27 clear of Finn Allen

Allen is second on 102 sixes from 48 matches, with 1,413 runs at 31.40 and a strike rate of 182.79. Sooryavanshi follows on 94, then Ishan Kishan on 92 and Shimron Hetmyer on 90. On the count alone, Sharma's lead looks comfortable. The rest of this piece asks how much of it comes from the extra matches.

Sixes per match: the top ten re-ranked

Why match count changes the order

The ten leading six hitters have played anywhere between 26 and 54 matches this year. Dividing each player's sixes by his matches gives a fairer read of how often he clears the rope when he plays. These are our calculations from the board's Sixes and Mat columns, rounded to one decimal place, not a figure Statz publishes.

The full order by volume is on the full ranking of all 905 six hitters.

Sooryavanshi at 3.6 per match

Sooryavanshi jumps from third on the board to first on this measure: 94 sixes in 26 matches works out at 3.6 a match, against Sharma's 2.4 (129 in 54). Allen is third at 2.1, and Nicholas Pooran fourth at 2.0. Kishan, fourth by volume, drops to eighth at 1.8: his 92 sixes have come across 52 matches.

Sixes per hundred balls: who clears the rope most often

Balls faced and sixes for the top ten

Matches played still hide how long a batter is at the crease. Balls faced is the cleaner divisor: sixes divided by balls faced, multiplied by 100, gives the number of sixes a batter hits for every hundred balls he receives. Again these are our own calculations from the board's Sixes and BF columns.

Strike rate alone does not tell the story

Sooryavanshi leads again, with 19.3 sixes per 100 balls (94 from 486) and the best strike rate of the ten at 220.37. Sharma is second at 15.4 and Dasun Shanaka third at 14.4: Shanaka is only ninth by volume, with 75 sixes, but he has faced just 521 balls. Pooran shows the other side. His 84 sixes come at 11.6 per 100 balls and a strike rate of 145.64, the lowest in the top ten, so his boundaries arrive among plenty of dot balls and singles. Kishan has faced the most balls of the ten, 1,041, and scores at 8.8 sixes per 100: he gets his runs another way, as the next section shows. For runs rather than sixes, see most runs in T20 cricket this season, and the T20 strike rate leaders rank every batter on pace.

Sixes against runs: how much of the scoring is boundary-clearing

Sixes and fours for the top five

Kishan's 1,822 runs are the most of anyone in the top ten, and his 187 fours outnumber his 92 sixes by more than two to one. Sharma has more sixes than anyone, but still more fours (159) than sixes. Sooryavanshi is the only one of the five with more sixes (94) than fours (89), and Hetmyer is close to even, with 90 sixes and 83 fours.

Averages that back up the big hitting

Sooryavanshi's average of 41.19 is the best of the five, ahead of Kishan's 37.18 and Sharma's 33.02, so his rate of six hitting has not come at the cost of getting out cheaply. Across the whole top ten, Sherfane Rutherford averages the most, 43.50, helped by 13 not-outs in 39 innings. The batting average leaders rank the full field on that measure.

Before the next match: form and the wider board

Using the last three innings, hit rates and streaks

A season total hides recent form. The board shows the last three innings for each player, newest first, and the table below copies them for the top ten at the time of writing (an asterisk marks not out).

Sharma made 113 three innings ago, then 27 and 1. Rutherford is the most consistent of the ten across his last three, 84, 32 and 49 not out, while Samson's 18, 4 and 4 and Shanaka's 12, 18 and 9 are the quietest runs. Sooryavanshi's last three read 15, 4 and 45, newest last. Three innings is a small sample, and none of these figures says how many sixes came in each knock, so treat it as a pointer to the player pages rather than a verdict. For a player's whole season, start with Abhishek Sharma's player page; for runs over a line in recent matches, the hit rates and player streaks pages are the next step, and the stat finder filters every batter by a threshold of your choosing.

Where the leaderboard stops being enough

The board ranks 905 players and updates after every match, so the per-match and per-ball order above will move as the 2026 season goes on. Matches played, balls faced and strike rate are all on the board, and they are what separate the busiest six hitters from the most efficient ones.

For the live order, check the live sixes table.

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