The Indian cricket team created a new all-time high going on to become the first team of world cricket to reach the 90 sixes in one calendar year. India achieved this in style when Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal went after the Bangladeshi bowlers on Day 4 of the second Test match played in Kanpur. The pair wailed on Bangladesh bowlers, as India set about breaking England’s record of the most number of maximums hit within a calendar year in Test matches. England had scored 89 sixes in 2022, only to see that record broken by India.
Most sixes by a team in a calendar year in Tests:
90* India in 2024
89 England in 2022
87 India in 2021
81 New Zealand in 2014
71 New Zealand in 2013
Cricket has been played as a sport since 1877, and in all that time no team has ever scored over 90 sixes in a year. For this reason, India made history by achieving this feat first. Previously, India’s best tally of longer hits was 87 sixes which the team had scored in 2021.
Jaiswal smashed 10 fours and a six to make the fourth quickest fifty for any Indian batsman when Rohit Sharma took charge as the inductor (23 off 11 balls, 3x6s, 1x4s), as the 50-run mark was breached in a matter of just three overs at the Green Park.
Thus India surpassed the record set by England who scored the fastest ever team fifty that was completed in 4.2 overs and was achieved against the West Indies at Trent Bridge in July this year.
When Jaiswal was still playing aggressively, No 3 Shubman Gill became the second player to assault the Bangladesh bowlers allowing India to reach 100 runs in 11 overs and breaking their records.
In 2023, at Port of Spain, after crossing the 100-run mark against the West Indies, India went on to complete a match in the shortest number of overs faced by any team ever.
