Test cricket is the most traditional and orthodox format of the sport, with players grinding it out for a result over a period of five days.
Red ball cricket has always been about patience and spending as much time at the crease as possible. With the emergence of the shorter formats of the game over the past 15 years, however, Test cricket is gradually but noticeably undergoing an evolution.
Players like Ben Stokes, Brendon McCullum, Chris Gayle, Virender Sehwag and now Yashasvi Jaiswal to name a few broke through all the stereotypes associated to Test cricket and stamped their own authority with their unconventional batting approach, staying true to their ballistic methods by using sixes as a means to gain the upper hand over the opposition. Let us take a look at the batters with most sixes in Test cricket.
Most sixes in Test cricket
| Batter | Sixes |
| Ben Stokes | 128* |
| Brendon McCullum | 107 |
| Adam Gilchrist | 100 |
| Chris Gayle | 98 |
| Jacques Kallis | 97 |
Apart from these 5 batters, Virender Sehwag comes next on the list with 91 maximums. Former West Indies skipper Brian Lara is placed 7th with 88 sixes. Craig Cairns (87 sixes), Tim Southee (86 sixes), and Angelo Mathews (85 sixes) complete our list of top 10 batters with most sixes in Test cricket.
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