Gayle, who has featured in his 27th World Cup match, had 37
sixes when he entered the field to play against Pakistan and smashed three
sixes to surpass De Villiers, who had hammered 37
sixes in his 23 World Cup appearances.
Later in the innings, Hasan Sardar (36 off 16 balls, four
sixes and one fours) and Saleem (28 off 16, two fours and one six) added 48 for the sixth wicket.
He hit two boundaries and a six off pacer Ghulam Mudassar and smacked three
sixes off spinner Mohammad Nawaz to bring the target down to 54 in last six.
Playing his first match for Arabians, Adam Lyth, who had scored a phenomenal 161 off 73 balls for Yorkshire against Northants at Headingley in August 2017 (T20's highest individual score in England and the third highest T20 score in the world), topscored with a breezy 52 off 24 balls with seven boundaries and two
sixes.
Richly deserved, hope to play a single wicket match with you one day, let's see who hits more
sixes and there should be no rules for getting OUT!' he posted in a reply to cricket journalist Saj Sadiq's tweet.
Asif Ali smashes brace of
sixes in his 15-ball knock of 21 and Hussain Talat made 18 from 13 balls with three strikes to the ropes.
For Khyber Green Azmaray (Lion) Nisar Afridi hammered a cracking 45 runs 34 balls with three boundaries and one six, Sajid Afridi scored 41 runs off 19 balls with four boundaries and three
sixes, Sami Ullah Junior scored 25 runs off 18 balls with three boundaries and one six.
Leading exponents are of course Maxwell (34
sixes so far), Smith (29), Yuvraj (24), De Villiers (16) and Miller (16).
Moxon was 21 not out (two
sixes) and Roebuck 14 not out as Steve Slack took 4-37.
The cricket ball famously hit by Gary Sobers for six consecutive
sixes in an over, in Swansea in 1968, is to be auctioned by Christie's later this month.
The hard-hitting Ahmed slammed a dazzling 54 from just 27 balls with seven fours and two
sixes. Later he grabbed five wickets for 25 runs in four overs of leg-spinner to be adjudged man-of-the-match.
Earlier, Pak Falcons made 133 for six as Arif fired six
sixes in his 15-ball 40.