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The ICC World Test Championship (WTC), which is a league competition, was launched in 2019. It is regarded as the world cup version of the test format.
The tournament includes the top nine test playing teams and runs in a two-year cycle, with each team playing three home and three away series. The top two teams in the league stage meet in the one-off final. New Zealand and Australia won the first two editions of the ICC WTC respectively, both beating India in the final.
While test matches are traditionally not known for explosive batting approach, few batters have risen to showcase their power-hitting prowess. Let us have a look at batters with most sixes in World Test Championship so far.
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Ben Stokes – 81
England test captain Ben Stokes sits on top the list of the most sixes in World Test Championship with 82 sixes to his credit in 48 tests. He is ahead of the rest with a wide margin.
Stokes has led the English cricket team from the front by showcasing an aggressive approach in test cricket. By playing attacking cricket, he has made England’s test cricket more fascinating for the fans.
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Rohit Sharma – 52
India captain Rohit Sharma has displayed some top level performance in test cricket since being promoted to open the batting in 2019. He has smashed 52 sixes in 33 tests in World Test Championship, the most by an Indian batter and the second-most in the world.
Sharma has gone on to become one of the top-notched test openers of the era, and performed remarkably well in captaincy duties. He is already renowned as a prolific six-hitter in the white-ball formats of the game, apart from hitting the second- most sixes in World Test Championship.
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Rishabh Pant – 42
Rishabh Pant is one of the most entertaining batters in test cricket whose innings are highlighted by sixes. The left-hander has garnered attention for his aggressive approach and unorthodox hitting abilities.
The wicketkeeper-batsman has turned around the game in favour of his team in several test matches with his brilliant knocks. Pant has hammered 42 maximums, the third-most sixes in World Test Championship so far, and is third on this list. That is despite being away from test cricket for more than a year due to his car accident in December 2022.
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Jonny Bairstow – 32
Jonny Bairstow made a significant contribution as a middle-order batter in England’s success in the initial years of the Bazball era. The 34-year-old has notched up a total of 32, maximums, one of the most sixes in World Test Championship sixes , and 23 of them have come while playing under captain Ben Stokes.
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Yashasvi Jaiswal – 29
India’s young talent Yashasvi Jaiswal has had an impressive start to his test career. He has scored over 1000 runs in only 10 tests at an average of an incredible 64.35. His test career so far includes three tons, two of which are double hundreds. In only 18 innings, Jaiswal has hammered 29 sixes and is fifth in the list of the most sixes in World Test Championship.
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