India cricket team opener Abhishek Sharma is on the cusp of making history on Sunday in the IRE vs IND 2nd T20I in Belfast as he could become the fastest to slam 100 sixes in T20Is. The prolific batter from Punjab has hit 98 sixes since making his debut in the shortest format of the game in 2024 and has witnessed a meteoric rise. Abhishek needs just two more sixes to create history and to also become the fifth Indian to score 100 sixes in T20Is.
Abhishek Sharma two sixes away from 100 sixes milestone
Abhishek Sharma needs to hit two more sixes from 36 balls on Sunday in the IRE vs IND 2nd T20I at the Civil Service Cricket Ground in Belfast to become the fastest to reach 100 sixes in T20Is. So far, he has managed to hit 98 sixes from 775 deliveries. The previous record for the fastest to reach 100 sixes was held by Austria’s Karanbir Singh who took 813 deliveries to reach the landmark.
Two sixes in the IRE vs IND 2nd T20I will also put Abhishek on the elusive list of Indians who have hit more than 100 sixes in T20Is. Rohit Sharma is on top of the list, having scored 205 sixes in 159 matches. Other Indians on the list include former Indian T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, and Virat Kohli.
| Player | Matches | Sixes |
| Rohit Sharma | 159 | 205 |
| Suryakumar Yadav | 113 | 179 |
| Hardik Pandya | 138 | 126 |
| Virat Kohli | 125 | 124 |
Sharma has had a mixed run this year in T20Is. In the T20 World Cup 2026, he scored three back-to-back ducks. His only effective contributions came in the Super 8 tie vs ZIM where he scored 55 runs and in the final where he slammed a 52-run knock. In IPL 2026, the SRH opener clocked 563 runs from 15 matches, including 4 fifties and 1 hundred.
Cut to the IRE vs IND 1st T20I, Sharma was the top-scorer for India in the contest, racing to 49 runs off 20 deliveries. He was supposed to have scored a fifty off 19 balls in the contest, one of the fastest in his career. But, a scoring correction later in the innings revealed that one run credited to Abhishek had actually come as a leg-bye.
