Brendon McCullum equals Gilchrist’s record of hundred sixes in Tests
It took him 9756 balls and 98 matches; Brendon McCullum has finally achieved a feat that seemed coming his way for long now. McCullum, who remained not out on 17 on day 4 of the first Test against Sri Lanka in Dunedin, plundered his second six of his innings to equal the world record. The six took his total to 100, joining Australian legend Adam Gilchrist as the most prolific boundary busters in Test history.
Gilchrist achieved the feat during his 96th Test match. Interestingly both McCullum and Gilchrist hammered Sri Lankan ace spinner on their way to the world record. McCullum said that while it would have been nice to hit one more six in the innings to take the record all for himself, the team had decided that they would declare when the lead passed 400. That shot had taken it to 404.
“I was hoping someone would ask me about the 100 sixes,” he said. “It’s the only record I actually care about. It’s the only record that Kane Williamson or Ross Taylor aren’t going to break as well, so I should be able to hold on to that one. I’ve been aware of it for a while, as you can probably tell by the way I bat all through my career.”
The following table lists the career summary of Brendon McCullum with breakup of boundary sixes against each opposition:
| Career summary | ||||||||||
| Opposition | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | 100 | 50 | 0 | 6s |
| v Australia | 14 | 26 | 1 | 654 | 104 | 26.16 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| v Bangladesh | 9 | 12 | 2 | 558 | 185 | 55.80 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| v England | 16 | 30 | 1 | 1041 | 97 | 35.89 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 18 |
| v India | 10 | 19 | 1 | 1224 | 302 | 68.00 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 |
| v Pakistan | 8 | 14 | 0 | 695 | 202 | 49.64 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 17 |
| v South Africa | 13 | 24 | 2 | 575 | 61 | 26.13 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| v Sri Lanka | 11 | 20 | 2 | 670 | 195 | 37.22 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 21 |
| v West Indies | 13 | 20 | 0 | 577 | 113 | 28.85 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| v Zimbabwe | 4 | 5 | 0 | 243 | 111 | 48.60 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| overall | 98 | 170 | 9 | 6237 | 302 | 38.73 | 11 | 31 | 13 | 100 |
Brendon McCullum has been phenomenal against all the Test playing nations. Here is the list of occasions where McCullum made it count and towered long ones. He has hammered 11 sixes twice in the year 2014. He struck 11 sixes against Pakistan at Sharjah and plundered the same number of sixes against Sri Lanka at Christchurch. In the same year, the New Zealand skipper hit 5 sixes and 4 sixes respectively at Auckland and Wellington.
| No | FI | SI | Runs | 6s | Opposition | Ground | Start Date |
| 1 | 57 | 19* | 76 | 0 | v South Africa | Hamilton | 10 Mar 2004 |
| 2 | 13 | DNB | 13 | 0 | v South Africa | Auckland | 18 Mar 2004 |
| 3 | 55 | 3 | 58 | 0 | v South Africa | Wellington | 26 Mar 2004 |
| 4 | 5 | 96 | 101 | 0 | v England | Lord’s | 20 May 2004 |
| 5 | 54 | 20 | 74 | 0 | v England | Leeds | 03 Jun 2004 |
| 6 | 21 | 4 | 25 | 0 | v England | Nottingham | 10 Jun 2004 |
| 7 | 143 | – | 143 | 2 | v Bangladesh | Dhaka | 19 Oct 2004 |
| 8 | 17* | – | 17 | 0 | v Bangladesh | Chittagong | 26 Oct 2004 |
| 9 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 0 | v Australia | Brisbane | 18 Nov 2004 |
| 10 | 10 | 36 | 46 | 1 | v Australia | Adelaide | 26 Nov 2004 |
| 11 | 29 | 24 | 53 | 0 | v Australia | Christchurch | 10 Mar 2005 |
| 12 | 3 | DNB | 3 | 0 | v Australia | Wellington | 18 Mar 2005 |
| 13 | 25 | 0 | 25 | 0 | v Australia | Auckland | 26 Mar 2005 |
| 14 | 99 | 7 | 106 | 2 | v Sri Lanka | Napier | 04 Apr 2005 |
| 15 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | v Sri Lanka | Wellington | 11 Apr 2005 |
| 16 | 111 | – | 111 | 1 | v Zimbabwe | Harare | 07 Aug 2005 |
| 17 | 24 | – | 24 | 0 | v Zimbabwe | Bulawayo | 15 Aug 2005 |
| 18 | 19 | 74 | 93 | 1 | v West Indies | Auckland | 09 Mar 2006 |
| 19 | 23 | DNB | 23 | 0 | v West Indies | Wellington | 17 Mar 2006 |
| 20 | TDNB | – | 0 | 0 | v West Indies | Napier | 25 Mar 2006 |
| 21 | 31 | 33 | 64 | 2 | v South Africa | Centurion | 15 Apr 2006 |
| 22 | 5 | DNB | 5 | 0 | v South Africa | Cape Town | 27 Apr 2006 |
| 23 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | v South Africa | Johannesburg | 05 May 2006 |
| 24 | 0 | 14* | 14 | 1 | v Sri Lanka | Christchurch | 07 Dec 2006 |
| 25 | 43 | 17 | 60 | 0 | v Sri Lanka | Wellington | 15 Dec 2006 |
| 26 | 9 | 26 | 35 | 0 | v South Africa | Johannesburg | 08 Nov 2007 |
| 27 | 13 | 21 | 34 | 0 | v South Africa | Centurion | 16 Nov 2007 |
| 28 | 7 | DNB | 7 | 1 | v Bangladesh | Dunedin | 04 Jan 2008 |
| 29 | 40 | – | 40 | 1 | v Bangladesh | Wellington | 12 Jan 2008 |
| 30 | 51 | 0 | 51 | 2 | v England | Hamilton | 05 Mar 2008 |
| 31 | 25 | 85 | 110 | 3 | v England | Wellington | 13 Mar 2008 |
| 32 | 9 | 42 | 51 | 0 | v England | Napier | 22 Mar 2008 |
| 33 | 97 | 24 | 121 | 2 | v England | Lord’s | 15 May 2008 |
| 34 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 1 | v England | Manchester | 23 May 2008 |
| 35 | 9 | 71 | 80 | 0 | v England | Nottingham | 05 Jun 2008 |
| 36 | 25 | 2 | 27 | 0 | v Bangladesh | Chittagong | 17 Oct 2008 |
| 37 | 66 | DNB | 66 | 1 | v Bangladesh | Dhaka | 25 Oct 2008 |
| 38 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 0 | v Australia | Brisbane | 20 Nov 2008 |
| 39 | 30 | 84* | 114 | 3 | v Australia | Adelaide | 28 Nov 2008 |
| 40 | 25 | DNB | 25 | 0 | v West Indies | Dunedin | 11 Dec 2008 |
| 41 | 31 | 19 | 50 | 2 | v West Indies | Napier | 19 Dec 2008 |
| 42 | 3 | 84 | 87 | 0 | v India | Hamilton | 18 Mar 2009 |
| 43 | 115 | – | 115 | 0 | v India | Napier | 26 Mar 2009 |
| 44 | 24 | 6 | 30 | 0 | v India | Wellington | 03 Apr 2009 |
| 45 | 1 | 29 | 30 | 1 | v Sri Lanka | Galle | 18 Aug 2009 |
| 46 | 18 | 13 | 31 | 0 | v Sri Lanka | Colombo (SSC) | 26 Aug 2009 |
| 47 | 78 | 0 | 78 | 0 | v Pakistan | Dunedin | 24 Nov 2009 |
| 48 | 0 | 24 | 24 | 0 | v Pakistan | Wellington | 03 Dec 2009 |
| 49 | 89 | DNB | 89 | 1 | v Pakistan | Napier | 11 Dec 2009 |
| 50 | 185 | 19* | 204 | 3 | v Bangladesh | Hamilton | 15 Feb 2010 |
| 51 | 24 | 104 | 128 | 2 | v Australia | Wellington | 19 Mar 2010 |
| 52 | 5 | 51 | 56 | 1 | v Australia | Hamilton | 27 Mar 2010 |
| 53 | 65 | 11* | 76 | 0 | v India | Ahmedabad | 04 Nov 2010 |
| 54 | 4 | 225 | 229 | 4 | v India | Hyd-RGS | 12 Nov 2010 |
| 55 | 40 | 25 | 65 | 0 | v India | Nagpur | 20 Nov 2010 |
| 56 | 56 | 35 | 91 | 2 | v Pakistan | Hamilton | 07 Jan 2011 |
| 57 | 2 | 64 | 66 | 1 | v Pakistan | Wellington | 15 Jan 2011 |
| 58 | 14 | 11 | 25 | 0 | v Zimbabwe | Bulawayo | 01 Nov 2011 |
| 59 | 34 | 1 | 35 | 0 | v Australia | Brisbane | 01 Dec 2011 |
| 60 | 16 | 12 | 28 | 0 | v Australia | Hobart | 09 Dec 2011 |
| 61 | 83 | – | 83 | 2 | v Zimbabwe | Napier | 26 Jan 2012 |
| 62 | 48 | 58* | 106 | 1 | v South Africa | Dunedin | 07 Mar 2012 |
| 63 | 61 | 5 | 66 | 1 | v South Africa | Hamilton | 15 Mar 2012 |
| 64 | 31 | 0 | 31 | 0 | v South Africa | Wellington | 23 Mar 2012 |
| 65 | 25 | 84 | 109 | 0 | v West Indies | North Sound | 25 Jul 2012 |
| 66 | 0 | 19 | 19 | 0 | v West Indies | Kingston | 02 Aug 2012 |
| 67 | 22 | 42 | 64 | 0 | v India | Hyd-RGS | 23 Aug 2012 |
| 68 | 0 | 23 | 23 | 0 | v India | Bangalore | 31 Aug 2012 |
| 69 | 68 | 13 | 81 | 3 | v Sri Lanka | Galle | 17 Nov 2012 |
| 70 | 4 | 35 | 39 | 0 | v Sri Lanka | Colombo (PSS) | 25 Nov 2012 |
| 71 | 7 | 51 | 58 | 0 | v South Africa | Cape Town | 02 Jan 2013 |
| 72 | 13 | 11 | 24 | 0 | v South Africa | Port Elizabeth | 11 Jan 2013 |
| 73 | 74 | – | 74 | 3 | v England | Dunedin | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 74 | 69 | DNB | 69 | 1 | v England | Wellington | 14 Mar 2013 |
| 75 | 38 | 67* | 105 | 3 | v England | Auckland | 22 Mar 2013 |
| 76 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 0 | v England | Lord’s | 16 May 2013 |
| 77 | 20 | 1 | 21 | 0 | v England | Leeds | 24 May 2013 |
| 78 | 21 | 22 | 43 | 1 | v Bangladesh | Chittagong | 09 Oct 2013 |
| 79 | 11 | – | 11 | 0 | v Bangladesh | Dhaka | 21 Oct 2013 |
| 80 | 113 | 9 | 122 | 3 | v West Indies | Dunedin | 03 Dec 2013 |
| 81 | 37 | – | 37 | 0 | v West Indies | Wellington | 11 Dec 2013 |
| 82 | 12 | DNB | 12 | 0 | v West Indies | Hamilton | 19 Dec 2013 |
| 83 | 224 | 1 | 225 | 5 | v India | Auckland | 06 Feb 2014 |
| 84 | 8 | 302 | 310 | 4 | v India | Wellington | 14 Feb 2014 |
| 85 | 7 | 17 | 24 | 0 | v West Indies | Kingston | 08 Jun 2014 |
| 86 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 0 | v West Indies | Port of Spain | 16 Jun 2014 |
| 87 | 31 | 25 | 56 | 0 | v West Indies | Bridgetown | 26 Jun 2014 |
| 88 | 18 | 39 | 57 | 0 | v Pakistan | Abu Dhabi | 09 Nov 2014 |
| 89 | 43 | 45 | 88 | 2 | v Pakistan | Dubai (DSC) | 17 Nov 2014 |
| 90 | 202 | – | 202 | 11 | v Pakistan | Sharjah | 26 Nov 2014 |
| 91 | 195 | DNB | 195 | 11 | v Sri Lanka | Christchurch | 26 Dec 2014 |
| 92 | 0 | 22 | 22 | 0 | v Sri Lanka | Wellington | 03 Jan 2015 |
| 93 | 42 | 0 | 42 | 1 | v England | Lord’s | 21 May 2015 |
| 94 | 41 | 55 | 96 | 2 | v England | Leeds | 29 May 2015 |
| 95 | 6 | 80 | 86 | 2 | v Australia | Brisbane | 05 Nov 2015 |
| 96 | 27 | DNB | 27 | 0 | v Australia | Perth | 13 Nov 2015 |
| 97 | 4 | 20 | 24 | 0 | v Australia | Adelaide | 27 Nov 2015 |
| 98 | 75 | 17* | 92 | 3 | v Sri Lanka | Dunedin | 10 Dec 2015 |
| 98 | 3712 | 2525 | 6237 | 100 | Total |
Brendon McCullum features twice in this list of maximum sixes in an innings. He towered 11 sixes twice (against Pakistan and Sri Lanka). Apart from McCullum, Matthew Hayden, Nathan Astle and WR Hammond also feature in the list. Interestingly, former Pakistan fast bowler Wasim Akram tops the chart with 12 sixes.
| No | Player | Runs | 6s | Team | Opposition | Ground | Match Date |
| 1 | Wasim Akram | 257* | 12 | Pakistan | v Zimbabwe | Sheikhupura | 17 Oct 1996 |
| 2 | NJ Astle | 222 | 11 | New Zealand | v England | Christchurch | 13 Mar 2002 |
| 3 | ML Hayden | 380 | 11 | Australia | v Zimbabwe | Perth | 09 Oct 2003 |
| 4 | BB McCullum | 202 | 11 | New Zealand | v Pakistan | Sharjah | 26 Nov 2014 |
| 5 | BB McCullum | 195 | 11 | New Zealand | v Sri Lanka | Christchurch | 26 Dec 2014 |
| 6 | WR Hammond | 336* | 10 | England | v New Zealand | Auckland | 31 Mar 1933 |
Stats by HR Gopala Krishna
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