Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi today became the batsman to hit most number of sixes in one-day internationals in the first final of VB Series.
The six that he hit off Shane Watson was 189th of his career took him past Sri Lankan Sanath Jayasuriya’s tally of 188 sixes.
Interestingly Afridi took 136 matches less than Jayasuriya to overhaul his record.Among the batsmen with 100 or more sixes in a career, Afridi's average of 1.01 sixes per innings is the best. His strike rate of 105.28 is also the highest among all the batsmen with an aggregate of 1,000 runs or more
