Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Chennai Super Kings (CSK) took to X on Sunday (January 4) to congratulate Ruturaj Gaikwad on becoming the fastest batter to hit 100 sixes in the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
The 28-year-old right-handed batter from Pune, who is leading Maharashtra in the 2025-26 edition of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, which is India’s premier domestic white-ball tournament (50 overs), was in action for Maharashtra on Saturday (January 3), and in their fifth Elite Group C match of the ongoing season, he scored 66 runs as a No. 3 batter.
Gaikwad faced 52 balls during his stay at the crease at Jaipur’s Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur and slammed seven fours. He added 108 runs for the second wicket with Arshin Kulkarni, who made 114 runs from 114 balls (11 fours and 3 sixes).
Gaikwad is only the second batter to hit 100-plus sixes in the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
According to ESPN Cricinfo, Gaikwad, who leads Chennai Super Kings in the cash-rich Indian Premier League, has 105 sixes to his credit in 57 Vijay Hazare Trophy matches played so far. Karnataka’s Manish Pandey tops the list of batters with the most sixes in the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
In 103 matches for Karnataka from 2008 to 2023, Pandey has scored 3403 runs with the help of 108 sixes and 250 fours.
Kerala’s wicketkeeper-batter Vishnu Vinod is third in the six-hitters list with 92 maximums to his credit in 56 matches, and former India batting all-rounder Yusuf Pathan finished his career with 91 sixes in 58 Vijay Hazare Trophy matches for Baroda.
Most sixes in Vijay Hazare Trophy
| PLAYER | TEAM | MATCHES | RUNS | SIXES |
| Manish Pandey | Karnataka | 103 | 3403 | 108 |
| Ruturaj Gaikwad | Maharashtra | 57 | 3180 | 105 |
| Vishnu Vinod | Kerala | 56 | 1975 | 92 |
| Yusuf Pathan | Baroda | 58 | 1965 | 91 |
| Ishan Kishan | Jharkhand | 50 | 1928 | 85 |
| Robin Uthappa | Kerala, Karnataka, Saurashtra | 80 | 3115 | 84 |
| Devdutt Padikkal | Karnataka | 33 | 2525 | 79 |
| Paras Dogra | Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Pondicherry | 99 | 3155 | 78 |
| Ricky Bhui | Andhra Pradesh | 71 | 2289 | 77 |
| Dinesh Karthik | Tamil Nadu | 79 | 3433 | 76 |
| Saurabh Tiwary | Jharkhand | 89 | 3190 | 76 |
In the ongoing edition of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, Gaikwad has played all five Elite Group C matches for Maharashtra and, with the help of one century and one fifty, has amassed a total of 257 runs. He has slammed 28 fours and five sixes so far.
The right-handed batter slammed his maiden ODI century for India on December 3, 2025, in Raipur against South Africa, but despite that, he was dropped from India’s squad for the upcoming three-match ODI series against New Zealand.
