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Former Indian legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar and Sri Lanka's great batsman Sanath Jayasuriya are tied at the fifth place with 27 sixes in 45 and 38 matches respectively.

It was a sixes galore in Quetta's innings as they smashed 12 sixes off a hapless Karachi attack.

Playing his first match for Arabians, Adam Lyth topscored with a breezy 52 off 24 balls with seven boundaries and two sixes. -

Afridi has hit 351 sixes in ODIs, 73 sixes in T20Is and 52 in Tests while Gayle has slammed 275 sixes in ODIs, 103 sixes in T20Is and 98 in the longest format of the game.

Talking of sixes. It was a rarity in Tests until a few decades ago.

The only other cricketer to have matched the feat of hitting six sixes in an over was ex-Glamorgan star Ravi Shastri, when batting for Mumbai against Baroda in Mumbai in 1985.

His unbeaten knock of 24 in 15 balls contained two sixes and helped Mumbai win with six balls to spare.

with Arsalan Bashir breeze knock 83 off 48 balls with two fours and seven sixes, Arsalan Farzand scores 39 in 30 balls with six fours, Hamza Qadir contributed 29 off just 13 balls with six boundaries.

OBM 70 in 6 overs for 3 wickets (Shakib 32 off 14 ball, 3 sixes and 2 boundaries, Sameer 22 off 11 balls with 1 six and 2 boundaries) bt Highland 41 in 6 overs for 5 wickets (Raji 15 off 10 balls, 2 sixes) by 29 runs.

Simon Walker, from Honley, also once hit six sixes in an over (one of them off a no-ball) and a four, to score 40 off an over in a Second XI game at Meltham, while former England player Allan Lamb, (while also playing for Holmfirth) hit five sixes and a four off a legitimate over against Lascelles Hall in 1977.

Opener Ahmed Hussain also batted well to bludgeon 44 off just 18 deliveries with four sixes and four fours,

He also hit Hassan's fourth and fifth deliveries for consecutive sixes, ensuring seven sixes came off just 13 balls.

Binesh of Jesus Youth scored the highest individual score of 49 runs studded with four boundaries and five sixes but could not stop the Indian School 'A' winning the match by a narrow margin of six runs.

The left-handed Bilal hoisted three sixes and hit eight boundaries and in scoring 81 from 51 deliveries while guiding his team home on the last ball of the mach in pursuit of a 216-run target.

Chasing a competitive target of 209 at the Aga Khan Gymkhana Ground, Qasmi Gymkhana stormed into the semi-finals with five balls to spare as man-of-the-match Hasan excelled under pressure to strike six sixes and a four in scoring 55 from 52 deliveries.