Most sixes in 1997: Top Performers, Rankings & Full Stats

The most sixes in 1997 highlights the top performers of the season based on official match data.

Position	Most sixes	Player Name	Team Name
1	39	Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka
2	27	Shahid Afridi	Germany
3	24	Ijaz Ahmed	Pakistan
4	21	Hansie Cronje	South Africa
5	20	Sourav Ganguly	India
5	20	Brian Lara	West Indies
6	18	Carl Hooper	West Indies
6	18	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pakistan
7	17	Sachin Tendulkar	India
7	17	Aravinda de Silva	Sri Lanka
8	15	Robin Singh	India
8	15	Moin Khan	Pakistan
9	14	Saeed Anwar	Pakistan
9	14	Ajay Jadeja	India
10	13	Lance Klusener	South Africa
11	12	Arjuna Ranatunga	Sri Lanka
11	12	Mark Waugh	Australia
12	11	Chris Cairns	New Zealand
12	11	Alistair Campbell	Zimbabwe
13	9	Guy Whittall	Zimbabwe
13	9	Craig Evans	Zimbabwe
13	9	Craig McMillan	New Zealand
13	9	Mohammad Azharuddin	India
14	8	Nathan Astle	New Zealand
14	8	Pat Symcox	South Africa
14	8	Roshan Mahanama	Sri Lanka
15	7	Azhar Mahmood	Pakistan
15	7	Navjot Sidhu	India
15	7	Shane Warne	Australia
16	6	Matt Horne	New Zealand
16	6	Stuart Williams	Zimbabwe
17	5	Grant Flower	Zimbabwe
17	5	Dave Houghton	Zimbabwe
17	5	Sir Curtly Ambrose	West Indies
17	5	Adam Parore	New Zealand
17	5	Daryll Cullinan	South Africa
17	5	Steve Waugh	Australia
17	5	Abey Kuruvilla	India
17	5	Alec Stewart	England
18	4	Robert Croft	England
18	4	Ricky Ponting	Australia
18	4	Matthew Elliott	Australia
18	4	Adam Gilchrist	Australia
18	4	Greg Blewett	Australia
18	4	Rahul Dravid	India
18	4	Rajesh Chauhan	India
18	4	Mushtaq Ahmed	Pakistan
18	4	Stephen Fleming	New Zealand
18	4	Shaun Pollock	South Africa
18	4	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
18	4	Franklyn Rose	West Indies
18	4	Shiv Chanderpaul	West Indies
18	4	Maurice Odumbe	Kenya
19	3	Kennedy Otieno	Kenya
19	3	Athar Ali Khan	Bangladesh
19	3	Romesh Kaluwitharana	Sri Lanka
19	3	Wasim Akram	Pakistan
19	3	Habibul Bashar	Bangladesh
19	3	Adam Hollioake	England
19	3	Waqar Younis	Pakistan
19	3	David Richardson	South Africa
19	3	Jonty Rhodes	South Africa
19	3	Stuart Law	Australia
20	2	John Crawley	England
20	2	Graeme Hick	England
20	2	Andy Caddick	England
20	2	Graham Thorpe	England
20	2	Nayan Mongia	India
20	2	Ian Healy	Australia
20	2	Saba Karim	India
20	2	Michael Bevan	Australia
20	2	Dipak Patel	New Zealand
20	2	Simon Doull	New Zealand
20	2	Roger Twose	New Zealand
20	2	Marvan Atapattu	Sri Lanka
20	2	Herschelle Gibbs	South Africa
20	2	Adam Bacher	South Africa
20	2	Kumar Dharmasena	Sri Lanka
20	2	Paul Strang	Zimbabwe
20	2	Roland Holder	West Indies
20	2	Sherwin Campbell	West Indies
20	2	Thomas Odoyo	Kenya
20	2	Tony Suji	Kenya
20	2	Aasif Karim	Kenya
21	1	Eddo Brandes	Zimbabwe
21	1	Heath Streak	Zimbabwe
21	1	Ali Brown	England
21	1	Craig Wishart	Zimbabwe
21	1	Steve Tikolo	Kenya
21	1	Akhtar Sarfraz	Pakistan
21	1	Rudi Bryson	South Africa
21	1	Aminul Islam	Bangladesh
21	1	Courtney Browne	West Indies
21	1	Robert Samuels	West Indies
21	1	Patterson Thompson	West Indies
21	1	Mervyn Dillon	West Indies
21	1	Andy Flower	Zimbabwe
21	1	Andy Whittall	Zimbabwe
21	1	Andy Waller	Zimbabwe
21	1	Ravindra Pushpakumara	Sri Lanka
21	1	Chaminda Vaas	Sri Lanka
21	1	Nuwan Zoysa	Sri Lanka
21	1	Sajeewa de Silva	Sri Lanka
21	1	Russel Arnold	Sri Lanka
21	1	Ian Bishop	West Indies
21	1	Phil Simmons	West Indies
21	1	Courtney Walsh	West Indies
21	1	Junior Murray	West Indies
21	1	Hashan Tillakaratne	Sri Lanka
21	1	Gary Kirsten	South Africa
21	1	Dulip Liyanage	Sri Lanka
21	1	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka
21	1	Daniel Vettori	New Zealand
21	1	Nasser Hussain	England
21	1	Bryan Young	New Zealand
21	1	Lee Germon	New Zealand
21	1	Ramiz Raja	Pakistan
21	1	Chris Harris	New Zealand
21	1	Hasibul Hossain	Bangladesh
21	1	Ben Hollioake	England
21	1	Akram Khan	Bangladesh
21	1	Alan Mullally	England
21	1	Mohammad Rafique	Bangladesh
21	1	Andrew Hudson	South Africa
21	1	Aamer Sohail	Pakistan
21	1	Aaqib Javed	Pakistan
21	1	Mohammad Hussain	Pakistan
21	1	Matthew Hayden	Australia
21	1	Mark Taylor	Australia
21	1	Sunil Joshi	India
21	1	Anil Kumble	India
21	1	Javagal Srinath	India
21	1	Peter Martin	England
21	1	Dominic Cork	England
21	1	Nick Knight	England
21	1	Mike Atherton	England
22	0	Devon Malcolm	England
22	0	Anthony Stuart	Australia
22	0	Michael Di Venuto	Australia
22	0	Ian Harvey	Australia
22	0	Jack Russell	England
22	0	Michael Kasprowicz	Australia
22	0	Jason Gillespie	Australia
22	0	Andy Bichel	Australia
22	0	Shaun Young	Australia
22	0	Simon Cook	Australia
22	0	Adam Dale	Australia
22	0	Darren Lehmann	Australia
22	0	Ronnie Irani	England
22	0	Chris Silverwood	England
22	0	Mark Butcher	England
22	0	Dean Headley	England
22	0	Craig White	England
22	0	Darren Gough	England
22	0	Mark Ramprakash	England
22	0	Phil Tufnell	England
22	0	Woorkeri Raman	India
22	0	Salil Ankola	India
22	0	Venkatesh Prasad	India
22	0	Vikram Rathour	India
22	0	Vinod Kambli	India
22	0	Nilesh Kulkarni	India
22	0	Debasis Mohanty	India
22	0	Harvinder Singh	India
22	0	Tom Moody	Australia
22	0	Sairaj Bahutule	India
22	0	Noel David	India
22	0	VVS Laxman	India
22	0	Dodda Ganesh	India
22	0	Paul Reiffel	Australia
22	0	Justin Langer	Australia
22	0	Brendon Julian	Australia
22	0	Michael Slater	Australia
22	0	Glenn McGrath	Australia
22	0	Mohammad Wasim	Pakistan
22	0	Zahoor Elahi	Pakistan
22	0	Mohammad Zahid	Pakistan
22	0	Ali Naqvi	Pakistan
22	0	Rashid Latif	Pakistan
22	0	Kabir Khan	Pakistan
22	0	Saqlain Mushtaq	Pakistan
22	0	Mohammad Akram	Pakistan
22	0	Saleem Elahi	Pakistan
22	0	Shahid Nazir	Pakistan
22	0	Hasan Raza	Pakistan
22	0	Allan Donald	South Africa
22	0	Mohammad Ramzan	Pakistan
22	0	Arshad Khan	Pakistan
22	0	Shoaib Akhtar	Pakistan
22	0	Shahid Afridi	Pakistan
22	0	Abdul Razzaq	Pakistan
22	0	Fanie de Villiers	South Africa
22	0	Brett Schultz	South Africa
22	0	Brian McMillan	South Africa
22	0	Naimur Rahman	Bangladesh
22	0	Shahriar Hossain	Bangladesh
22	0	Enamul Haque	Bangladesh
22	0	Mark Ealham	England
22	0	Khaled Mashud	Bangladesh
22	0	Danny Morrison	New Zealand
22	0	Justin Vaughan	New Zealand
22	0	Blair Pocock	New Zealand
22	0	Asif Mujtaba	Pakistan
22	0	Shayne O'Connor	New Zealand
22	0	David Sewell	New Zealand
22	0	Saleem Malik	Pakistan
22	0	Heath Davis	New Zealand
22	0	Gavin Larsen	New Zealand
22	0	Craig Spearman	New Zealand
22	0	Geoff Allott	New Zealand
22	0	Ruwan Kalpage	Sri Lanka
22	0	Pramodya Wickramasinghe	Sri Lanka
22	0	Paul Adams	South Africa
22	0	Mark Boucher	South Africa
22	0	Jimmy Adams	West Indies
22	0	David Williams	West Indies
22	0	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka
22	0	Lanka de Silva	Sri Lanka
22	0	Upul Chandana	Sri Lanka
22	0	Jayantha Silva	Sri Lanka
22	0	Sanjeeva Ranatunga	Sri Lanka
22	0	Adam Huckle	Zimbabwe
22	0	Gavin Rennie	Zimbabwe
22	0	Dirk Viljoen	Zimbabwe
22	0	Minhajul Abedin	Bangladesh
22	0	Saiful Islam	Bangladesh
22	0	Sheikh Salahuddin	Bangladesh
22	0	Mafizur Rahman	Bangladesh
22	0	Jahangir Alam	Bangladesh
22	0	Shafiuddin Ahmed	Bangladesh
22	0	Everton Matambanadzo	Zimbabwe
22	0	Pommie Mbangwa	Zimbabwe
22	0	Stuart Carlisle	Zimbabwe
22	0	Bryan Strang	Zimbabwe
22	0	John Rennie	Zimbabwe
22	0	Floyd Reifer	West Indies
22	0	Rawl Lewis	West Indies
22	0	Philo Wallace	West Indies
22	0	Nixon McLean	West Indies
22	0	Adrian Griffith	West Indies
22	0	Ottis Gibson	West Indies
22	0	Cameron Cuffy	West Indies
22	0	Mohammad Sheikh	Bangladesh
22	0	Louis Koen	South Africa
22	0	Laurie Williams	West Indies
22	0	Manzoor Akhtar	Pakistan
22	0	Mike Smith	Scotland
22	0	Derek Crookes	South Africa
22	0	Martin Suji	Kenya
22	0	Alpesh Vadher	Kenya
22	0	Joseph Angara	Kenya
22	0	Andrew Penn	New Zealand
22	0	Sajid Ali	Pakistan
22	0	Mujahid Jamshed	Pakistan
22	0	Graham Lloyd	England
22	0	Dougie Brown	England
22	0	Matthew Fleming	England
22	0	Dipak Chudasama	Kenya
22	0	Hitesh Modi	Kenya