World's top 10 six hitters? (Current players)

[SpaceMonkey]

You cant really include Pietersen after only 9 games (although no doubt he'll be there when he's play 90 games still).

 

[Isolator]

Why Kemp? One or two good games isn't sufficient evidence. I don't think he'll be doing stuff like that again in a hurry. Unless he's done it earlier, in which case I'm a moron.

 

[Scaly piscine]

I think a lot of Kemp's sixes would have landed short on average sized boundaries, they were just much shorter than usual in SA. Most of Pietersen's sixes would have cleared the ropes on almost any Test ground in the World tho.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

I think Kemp and Afridi are quite possibly the best six-hitters in the world right now. Afridi is amazing on the go. Regarding Kemp v Pietersen: Kemp hits them crazy distances, but Pietersen does it so unexpectedly.

One of the most effortless six-hitters I've seen is Dwayne Smith. Pity about the rest of his batting game.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

I think a lot of Kemp's sixes would have landed short on average sized boundaries, they were just much shorter than usual in SA. Most of Pietersen's sixes would have cleared the ropes on almost any Test ground in the World tho.

Well I didn't see Pietersen's last century, but I beg to differ aside from that. Kemp hit some monster blows and a few of Pietersen's didn't land too far over the ropes.

 

[Neil Pickup]

One of Kemp's in his 80 left the ground. Absolutely huge. Smith, I think, nearly wet himself with laughter. The only bigger sixes I've seen were from Astle.

 

[Scaly piscine]

I wasn't saying there weren't any huge sixes from Kemp, but he got 7 sixes in that 80 and that was the game where the boundaries were almost minimum length if I remember correctly.

 

[imranrabb]

Afridi hit the biggest six ever recently in perth against symonds

 

[Neil Pickup]

Afridi hit the biggest six ever recently in perth against symonds

FYI, the World Record stands thus: The Reverend W Fellows, while at practice on the Christ Church ground at Oxford in 1856, drove a ball bowled by Charles Rogers 175 yards from hit to pitch.

Wisden 2004, page 363

 

[imranrabb]

If you want to view it here it is

http://s10.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3H09VH2KLL5MI3H1J4B6MKVQ3R

 

[Bookie]

Reading back, either you poeple don't count Klusener as a current player or you just dont know who he is.

 

[ReallyCrazy]

If you want to view it here it is

http://s10.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3H09VH2KLL5MI3H1J4B6MKVQ3R

Holy. I love Afridi now. Wow!!

 

[honestbharani]

Afridi
Razzaq
Yuvraj
Kemp
Pieterson
Flintoff
Symonds
Lara
Cairns
Hinds



That was in no particular order.

 

[dudeurfriend]

Afridi
Flintoff
Sehwag
Cairns
Razzaq
Gilchrist
Gayle
Ganguly
Pietersen
Jayasuria
Astle

 

[Hit4Six]

Sehwag
Gilchrist
Afridi
Cairns
Razzaq
Pieterson
Klusener
Ponting
Flintoff

 

[Neil Pickup]

Votes so far...
7 Cairns, Flintoff, Afridi, Razzaq, Pietersen
6 Gilchrist, Sehwag
5 Jayasuriya
4 Kemp, Ganguly
3 Gayle
2 Powell, Astle, Hinds, Klusener
1 Yuvraj, Symonds, Lara, Ponting

 

[Buddhmaster]

Reading back, either you poeple don't count Klusener as a current player or you just dont know who he is.

Agreeded, that guy can go crazy. My others would be Seywag, Cairnes, Gilly and Afridi.

 

[Buddhmaster]

If you want to view it here it is

http://s10.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3H09VH2KLL5MI3H1J4B6MKVQ3R

Do you have any other Windows Media clips of huge shots, or anything cricket related?

 

[Scaly piscine]

Votes so far...
7 Cairns, Flintoff, Afridi, Razzaq, Pietersen
6 Gilchrist, Sehwag
5 Jayasuriya
4 Kemp, Ganguly
3 Gayle
2 Powell, Astle, Hinds, Klusener
1 Yuvraj, Symonds, Lara, Ponting

Interesting that Gayle gets 3 votes, he'd be comfortably bottom of the list mentioned above in my mind. He's a good 4 hitter but once the field goes back he struggles a bit and I don't recall him going berserk with 6s like a Pietersen or a Kemp too often.

 

[marc71178]

yes my test 10 would be quite different

Would it actually have 10 instead of 11?