World No. 1 T20I batter Abhishek Sharma is likely to open for India in the second T20I against Ireland. In the match scheduled to be played at the Civil Service Cricket Club in Belfast on Sunday (June 28), the left-handed batter from Amritsar, who scored 49 runs off 20 balls in the first T20I, will have a chance to enter the record books.
If Abhishek, who has scored 1,487 runs in 46 innings of 47 T20I matches, manages to hit two sixes within the first 36 balls of his innings, he will become the fastest batter in history to reach 100 sixes in T20 Internationals.
At present, the record for being the quickest batter to hit 100 sixes in T20Is belongs to Austria’s Karanbir Singh, who reached the milestone in just 813 balls. Abhishek, meanwhile, has
smashed 98 sixes from only 775 balls faced so far.
The overall record for being the fastest batter in the world to hit 100 sixes in T20 cricket is held by India’s Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. The 15-year-old left-handed batter from Bihar, who could make his international debut for the senior Indian men’s team on Sunday, needed just 515 balls to bring up 100 sixes in T20s.
Fastest batters to score 100 sixes in T20s
| PLAYER | COUNTRY | BALLS TAKEN |
| Vaibhav Sooryavanshi | India | 515 |
| Karanbir Singh | Austria | 813 |
| Kieron Pollard | West Indies | 843 |
| Romario Shepherd | West Indies | 845 |
| Seekkuge Prasanna | Sri Lanka | 850 |
| Rahkeem Cornwall | West Indies | 850 |
A couple of sixes from Abhishek Sharma in the second T20I will also help him become only the fifth Indian cricketer, after Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya, to hit 100 or more sixes in T20 Internationals.
Rohit, who led India to the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup title in 2024, tops the list of batters with the most sixes in T20Is. He played 159 T20Is between 2007 and 2024 and smashed 205 sixes. No player in the world has hit more sixes in the format than the 39-year-old former India captain.
Most sixes for India in T20Is
| PLAYER | MATCHES | RUNS | SIXES |
| Rohit Sharma | 159 | 4231 | 205 |
| Suryakumar Yadav | 113 | 3272 | 179 |
| Hardik Pandya | 138 | 2288 | 126 |
| Virat Kohli | 125 | 4188 | 124 |
| KL Rahul | 72 | 2265 | 99 |
| Abhishek Sharma | 47 | 1487 | 98 |
| Sanju Samson | 63 | 1404 | 84 |
| Yuvraj Singh | 58 | 1177 | 74 |
| Tilak Varma | 50 | 1409 | 72 |
| Ishan Kishan | 46 | 1329 | 70 |
Suryakumar Yadav, who was dropped from India’s T20I squad despite leading the Men in Blue to the T20 World Cup title in March 2026, has hit 179 sixes in 113 matches, while Hardik Pandya has smashed 126 sixes in 138 matches. Virat Kohli, meanwhile, finished his T20I career with 124 sixes in 125 matches for India.
