In 2021, he/she hit three consecutive 6s, took the team to the finals, this time he/she yearned for a 6

New Delhi. So far in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024, the batsmen have not seen the kind of performance that the fans were waiting for. The reason for this is the slow wickets of West Indies and America and the slow outfield. Most of the matches have been low-scoring. The dominance of bowlers over the batsmen can be understood from the fact that now less than a dozen matches are left in the tournament and a score of 200+ has been seen only four times. There were also matches in which the teams of India, South Africa and Bangladesh defended a score of less than 120.

Not only in terms of runs, this World Cup has not been able to give fun to cricket lovers even in terms of fours and sixes. Till the Bangladesh-Australia match of Super 8 (44th match of the tournament), only 729 fours and 389 sixes have been seen. The average of sixes per match is around 8.84 and that of fours is around 16.56, whereas usually in T20I, more sixes and fours than this are sometimes hit in a single innings of a match. This is the situation when all the matches from the Super 8 round have been shifted to West Indies where the wickets are better for batting than America. We can only hope that after the bowlers ruled in the group matches, now the batsmen will rule in the upcoming matches and the wish of the fans to see a ‘rain’ of fours and sixes will be fulfilled.

The effect of fewer sixes hit in the tournament so far is also visible in the ledger of the great batsmen. The ledger of sixes of some famous batsmen famous for their stormy batting is empty so far in this tournament, this includes Matthew Wade of the Australian team that reached the Super 8, Shakib-al-Hasan of the Bangladesh team and Ravindra Jadeja of India. This is Wade’s fourth T20 World Cup while Shakib has played in all the 9 T20 World Cups so far. This is also Jadeja’s sixth T20 World Cup.

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Australia’s wicketkeeper batsman Wade has scored runs in 15 balls at a strike rate of 140.00 in two innings of 5 matches of this T20 World Cup, but he/she has not hit a six yet. It is true that Wade has not got many innings and balls to play so far, but his/her image is of a batsman who dominates the bowlers from the beginning. The wickets of the tournament are slow and the ball is stopping many times, so this is not possible. Let us tell you, Wade has hit 46 sixes in 90 T20Is. he/she has taken Australia to the final by hitting consecutive sixes to Pakistan’s Shaheen Afridi on the last three balls of the 19th over of the semi-final of the 2021 T20 World Cup. Australia became the champion by defeating New Zealand in the final of this World Cup. In this match, Wade played an unbeaten innings of 41 runs with the help of two fours and four sixes in just 17 balls and changed the course of the game and made the team’s victory possible.

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Shakib played 96 balls but could not hit a six yet

Shakib, one of the best all-rounders in the world, has hit 52 sixes in 127 T20Is so far. Talking about the current World Cup, he/she has scored 100 runs (average 25.00, strike rate 104.16) with the help of a half-century while facing 96 balls in 5 matches but there is not a single six in it. In 41 matches of the T20 World Cup, Shakib has so far scored 842 runs with the help of 73 fours and 23 sixes while taking the highest number of 49 wickets. Like these two, India’s Ravindra Jadeja has also not been able to hit a six in this tournament so far. The teams of these three players have made it to the Super 8. It is expected that fans will be able to see them hitting sixes in the upcoming matches.

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Mendis, ‘Chacha’ and Rachin were among the other batsmen who could not hit a six
Although the list of batsmen who could not hit a single six in the T20 World Cup 2024 is quite long. It includes the names of strong batsmen like Kusal Mendis of Sri Lanka, Rachin Ravindra of New Zealand and Iftikhar Ahmed of Pakistan. The teams of all these batsmen could not make it to the Super 8. Out of this, Kusal Mendis has scored 1629 runs in 67 T20Is at an excellent strike rate of 134.40, which includes 74 sixes. However, consider it the result of bad pitches or poor form, in the three matches of the current World Cup, Kusal could score only 75 runs at an average of 25 by playing 67 balls. he/she could not hit any six.

Pakistan’s Iftikhar Ahmed, popularly known as ‘Chacha’, also had a bad bat in the T20 World Cup. he/she was able to score just 25 runs in two matches. Iftikhar has hit 44 sixes in 66 T20Is so far. New Zealand’s Indian-origin player Rachin Ravindra, who became the ‘light’ of everyone’s eyes with his/her explosive performance in the World Cup (ODI) 2023, would also like to forget this T20 World Cup considering it a bad dream. he/she could score only 17 runs in three matches, remaining unbeaten once, which included neither a six nor a four. The ‘substandard’ pitches of the T20 World Cup 2024 have embarrassed many other batsmen in the same way. Let us tell you, Rachin Ravindra was among the top-4 batsmen in the World Cup (ODI) held in India last year. he/she scored 578 runs in 10 matches with three centuries which included 17 sixes. Similarly, Kusal Mendis hit 15 sixes in the ODI World Cup and Iftikhar hit 8 sixes.

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