5 bowlers to have conceded most sixes: As the 2023 World Cup approaches its conclusion, several teams are still in contention for a spot in the top four and the opportunity to advance to the semi-finals.
Even though the tournament has been filled with upsets by lower-ranked teams such as Afghanistan and the Netherlands, the skewed battle between bat and ball has contributed to an aura of predictability in several games. Due to multiple games in which the batting side has amassed scores exceeding 350 and 400, the bowlers have been subjected to questionable records.
Smaller boundaries and bulkier bats, which are designed to attract more spectators who favor high-scoring matches with numerous sixes, have only served to worsen the situation for bowlers. In an effort for the 50-over game to match the intensity of franchise Twenty20 cricket, rule modifications have been enforced in the last ten years to encourage more towering sixes.
Given this, it is reasonable to anticipate that bowlers have been disciplined for a greater number of sixes in the most recent editions.
In light of this, we shall examine the five bowlers who have allowed the most sixes to be conceded in a single World Cup.
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Fifth-ranked Jason Holder hit thirteen sixes during the 2015 World Cup. Holder was subjected to a significant beating at the hands of South Africa in 2015.
Holder was subjected to a significant beating at the hands of South Africa in 2015.
Jason Holder, an all-rounder for the West Indies, conceded thirteen sixes across seven matches during the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Despite accumulating nine wickets during the tournament, the towering 31-year-old was victimized in a few matches by the carnage.
Holder, whose performance against South Africa the following day was a triumph over Zimbabwe with three wickets, was carried to every corner of the Sydney Cricket Ground, brimming with confidence.
Following an initial score of 1/9 in five overs, the right-arm pacer amassed an abject 1/104 in ten overs. AB de Villiers, his primary destroyer, hit six maximums off his bowling during his 162* off 66 deliveries.
Furthermore, in the quarterfinals, Expand Tweet Holder was subjected to a severe beating at the hands of New Zealand, forfeiting an additional six maximums. Martin Guptill scored five of the six runs and amassed an astounding 237 off 153 deliveries.
Given that the preponderance of the twelve sixes in two games came off the bats of two batters, Jason Holder’s inclusion on this undesirable list is unsurprising.
#4 Rashid Khan: 14 sixes in the World Cup of 2019. Rashid was awestruck by the 2019 batting outburst by England.
Rashid was awestruck by the 2019 batting outburst by England.
Rashid Khan, who was arguably the most unexpected participant, performed subparly during the 2019 FIFA World Cup.
Notwithstanding failing to accumulate wickets, the Afghanistan international withstood England in all but one match without being dismissed. The hosts targeted the 25-year-old on a benign Manchester wicket, and he surrendered an alarming 110 runs in nine overs.
English captain Eoin Morgan, who amassed a formidable 148 off 71 deliveries by hitting a remarkable seventeen sixes, specifically targeted Rashid. The Afghan international scored a pitiful ten maximums, six of which were delivered from the England captain’s willow.
Rashid’s dismal performance appeared to have had a detrimental effect on him, as he secured a mere three wickets in the four matches that followed, bringing an end to a dismal 2019 World Cup campaign.
14 sixes for No. 3 Yuzvendra Chahal in the 2019 World Cup
Chahal faced severe repercussions at the hands of England.
Another wrist spinner that makes the list is Yuzvendra Chahal of India, who contributed to an English assault during the 2019 World Cup.
Chahal, similar to Rashid Khan, surrendered fourteen maximums during the tournament, the majority of which occurred against England. In contrast to the Afghanistan spinner, Chahal was in sensational form prior to the England match, having taken ten wickets in his first five appearances.
Jonny Bairstow, who batted first, specifically targeted the 33-year-old and hit him for four sixes before all-rounder Ben Stokes took over with two maximums. As a result, Chahal, who was already struggling, concluded his ten overs with abhorrent figures of 0/88.
The previously unflappable spinner appeared visibly rattled in his subsequent two appearances, each claiming a single wicket. Notably, in India’s semi-final loss to New Zealand, he recorded a dismal 1/63.
No. 2 Tinashe Panyangara finished the 2015 World Cup with 15 sixes. A cost-prohibitive Zimbabwean pacer for the duration of the 2015 World Cup.
A cost-prohibitive Zimbabwean pacer for the duration of the 2015 World Cup.
Tinashe Panyangara, a pacer for Zimbabwe, had a forgettable 2015 World Cup, conceding fifteen sixes in six matches.
Although Chris Gayle scored several runs during his double century, the 38-year-old was dismissed for plenty in the majority of contests. Except for the match against Pakistan, Panyangara averaged over seven runs per trip and took only five wickets in his remaining appearances.
With an aggregate ODI World Cup record of 97 for an average of 7.22 and an economy of 7.22, Panyangara’s position as the second player on this dubious list is unsurprising.
#1 Haris Rauf amassed sixteen sixes during the 2023 FIFA World Cup. Rauf persisted in observing projectiles being hurled into the stands in opposition to New Zealand.
Rauf persisted in observing projectiles being hurled into the stands in opposition to New Zealand.
Pakistan entered the 2023 World Cup with optimistic expectations that their quickest bowler, Haris Rauf, and Shaheen Afridi would spearhead the attack. On the contrary, the situation has been anything but, as the 29-year-old has been decimated in the majority of the tournament’s games thus far.
Despite claiming thirteen wickets in eight appearances, the rate at which the fast bowler has conceded runs is alarmingly high at nearly seven runs per over. One drawback regarding Rauf’s performance thus far has been his persistently costly bowling, as he has been hauled off for sixes in nearly every game.
He was abysmal against Australia, conceding 83 runs in only eight overs during the double-century partnership, which opener David Warner and Mitchell Marsh hammered him at will.
In the ongoing match against New Zealand, he conceded 85 runs in 10 overs, two of which were maximums, propelling him to the top of the uncherished list.
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