Ayush Badoni dethrones Chris Gayle to become new T20 six-hit king with record knock

South Delhi Superstarz batsman Ayush Badoni has broken Chris Gayle’s massive T20 record. The young batsman surpassed Universe Boss’ record for most sixes in a T20 knock by hitting 19 maximums during his innings on Saturday (August 31).

Ayush Badoni achieved the feat during the game between South Delhi Superstarz and North Delhi Strikers in the Delhi Premier League T20 2024.

The match between the two teams took place at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, where a racing festival was held.

Ayush Badoni was at his best and played a magnificent innings that helped his team win the match. The right-hander went for the bowlers from the start and smashed the North Delhi Strikers bowlers all over the field, making them look clueless.

Ayush Badoni did not make any mistake in his innings. The middle-order batsman hit a brutal ton of batters, and even after that, he did not stop. He kept hitting the bowlers and made sure to put his team in a dominant position and ended up putting a total of 308 runs on the board.

Ayush Badoni finished off an innings of 165 runs in just 55 balls. The right-hander, during his innings, had as many as 19 sixes.

He broke the joint record of Chris Gayle, who hit 18 sixes in his 69-ball 146 for Rangpur Riders in the 2017 Bangladesh Premier League, and Estonia’s Sahil Chauhan, who achieved the same feat in a T20 International against Cyprus earlier this year.

Not only that, Badoni, with his innings of 165 runs, also broke Shreyas Iyer’s record of the highest score by an Indian in the shortest format of the game. He surpassed Shreyas Iyer’s record of 147 runs, which he scored for Mumbai against Sikkim in Indore on February 21, 2019.

Badoni also ended up scoring 286 runs for the second wicket with Priyansh Arya, who also scored 120 runs, hitting six sixes in his innings.

The duo broke the record of Japan’s batting duo of Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake (134) and Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming (109), who added 258 in a T20I match against China in Mong Kok.

According to Badoni’s innings, the South Delhi team posted a mammoth total of 308 runs on the board. This is notably the second-highest total in the history of T20s. They also won the game by a huge margin and earned two important points.

Ayush Badoni tops list for most sixes in T20 innings