Aftab Ahmed ranked fourth in International Sixes League

[Niceman70]

Aftab Ahmed ranked fourth in International Sixes League





Despite a last-minute charge from Sanath Jayasuriya, Chris Gayle is the inaugural winner of the SKY Sports International Sixes League with a total of 37 sixes in the calendar year.
Jayasuriya made it interesting by hitting five maximums in his century in the first One Day International against New Zealand, but was unable to add to his tally in the second match played on 31 December - and so ended one short of Gayle's tally.

Indian MS Dhoni had a barren Second Test against South Africa at Durban and so remained in third place on 32 with the triumvirate of Aftab Ahmed, Andrew Symonds and Adam Gilchrist on 29.

Over the course of the international cricketing year of 2006, a total of 1,142 sixes were hit by 203 different batsmen.

SKY SPORTS INTERNATIONAL SIXES LEAGUE
Player	Team	Test	ODI	20/20	TOTAL	Balls
Chris Gayle	WI	13	24	-	37	2659
Sanath Jayasuriya	SL	5	28	3	36	1410
MS Dhoni	Ind	12	20	-	32	1629
Aftab Ahmed	Ban	1	27	1	29	994
Andrew Symonds	Aus	8	19	2	29	1248
Adam Gilchrist	Aus	12	17	-	29	1336
Abdul Razzaq	Pak	7	17		24	1527
Brian Lara	WI	9	14	-	23	2056
Ricky Ponting	Aus	7	14	2	23	2952
Mark Boucher	SA	2	20	-	22	1807
Shahid Afridi	Pak	16	4	1	21	496
Kevin Pietersen	Eng	14	7	-	21	2686

http://home.skysports.com/cwc/articl...l+Sixes+League

[Mav]

Interesting.
Surprised that Afridi isnt on the list.

[sadi]

If you just consider odis, he is second behind Jayasuriya.

[Tigers_eye]

Originally Posted by sadi
If you just consider odis, he is second behind Jayasuriya.

Well in that case if you consider (age) below 23 he is the guy. he is #1. (why settle for second :p )

[zakirc]

Originally Posted by Tigers_eye
Well in that case if you consider (age) below 23 he is the guy. he is #1. (why settle for second :p )

We need our own S. Rajesh to make up those conditions and both Tiger_Eyes and sadi can apply for the position. :p

[RazabQ]

Ha ha Zakir, you just beat me to it. I do like the idea of using S. Rajesh as the synonym for the "lies, dam lies, and biases statistics" school of analytics. We can say, "pulling a SRajesh, Aftab is the worlds top young talent in hitting 6" and put a small footnote which says "cutoff was set at age 23".

[gatekeeper]

Originally Posted by Mav
Interesting.
Surprised that Afridi isnt on the list.

Afridi IS on the list, #11.

[sumanrc]

Originally Posted by RazabQ
Ha ha Zakir, you just beat me to it. I do like the idea of using S. Rajesh as the synonym for the "lies, dam lies, and biases statistics" school of analytics. We can say, "pulling a SRajesh, Aftab is the worlds top young talent in hitting 6" and put a small footnote which says "cutoff was set at age 23".

Lol. S Rajesh might not consider the no. of sixes hit against other minnows and disqualify our young prodigy :p .

[akabir77]

No wonder aftab is called DHOOM DHOOM AFTAB...

[AsifTheManRahman]

Originally Posted by sumanrc
Lol. S Rajesh might not consider the no. of sixes hit against other minnows and disqualify our young prodigy :p .

alternatively, he could go in the opposite direction of the panesar article and set the max number for qualification to 29 sixes

[Tigers_eye]

More like minimum of 15 ODIs played.

[Spitfire_x86]

I think Aftab has highest average of sixes/innings (assuming everyone played 2 inningses/test and batted in every ODIs and 20/20 matches)

Here's the six/innings of the top four:

37/50 (Gayle)
36/41 (Jayasuria)
32/44 (Dhoni)
29/30 (Aftab)

[Miraz]

I am doing an S Rajesh here,

Here's the same stat with balls required to hit one six (qualification 500 ball faced).

Now Aftab is topping the list and Afridi omitted (that's why 500 ball qualification )

  
  
   
Player
   

   

   
Balls/Six
  
  
   

   

   

   

  
  
   

   

   

   

  
  
   
Aftab Ahmed
   

   
34.27586
  
  
   
Sanath   Jayasurya
   

   
39.16667
  
  
   
Andrew   Symonds
   

   
43.03448
  
  
   
Adams   Gilchrist
   

   
46.06897
  
  
   
MS Dhoni
   

   

   
50.90625
  
  
   
Abdul   Razzak
   

   
63.625
  
  
   
Chris Gayle 
   

   
71.86486
  
  
   
Mark   Boucher
   

   
82.13636
  
  
   
Brian Lara
   

   

   
89.3913
  
  
   
Kevin   Pietersen
   

   
127.9048
  
  
   
Ricky   Ponting
   

   
128.3478
  
 

[Tigers_eye]

Good one Spitty and Miraz. We have a joint winner for Rajesh's spot. Actually we can can do better than him with any stats.

[al Furqaan]

s rajesh what a joke for a monkey!

[One World]

This is the most enjoyable thread before world cup. First time I laughed loudly while reading a thread.

[sadi]

Bechara Rajesh re keno bash ditesen apnara. Not nice!!! Mind korbo tho.

[Outswinger]

Aftab faced less balls as well.

[moula]

aftab played 1/3 ball of chris gayle to make 29 six, close to gayles' 37. he played less match than all others except crazy afridi. we are proud of him.

[mhj007]

Originally Posted by Tigers_eye
Well in that case if you consider (age) below 23 he is the guy. he is #1. (why settle for second :p )

thats the spirit!!!be always first"!
Junior

[cricket_dorshok]

ha ha ha! bechara S. Rajesh!

[FagunerAgun]

Good performance in the ODIs.
Congrats, Aftab
Hope you will show better performance in the Test Matches.

[Sovik]

there goes another s rajesh

aftab hit most sixes among who are right handed batsman and bowl medium pace

[thasan]

lol...bechara s rajesh!! somebody should make a pdf of this page and email him and every other writer of cricinfo.
who knows! they might pick one of us in the cricinfo team after they kick S.R. out ;-)

[fuzzy]

he remains me of ponting. the futureof bd team. iam waiting see him play in aus in 2008.