Stats: Evin Lewis - The six hitting machine
Lewis scored his 2nd T20I hundred in the only T20I against India while his maiden century was also against the same opposition.
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After scoring only 67 runs in 4 innings in the ODI series against India, Evin Lewis came out strong in the one-off T20I to smash an unbeaten 125 in the 191-run chase at Jamaica. During his innings, Lewis smashed 12 sixes and was just 2 behind the record in T20I cricket. However, the 12 sixes are the most by any player for Windies and most against India in a T20I inning.
Most sixes by an individual in a T20I inning:
Player | Team | Runs | Balls | Fours | Sixes | Opposition | Ground | Date |
Aaron Finch | Australia | 156 | 63 | 11 | 14 | England | Southampton | 29-Aug-2013 |
Richard Levi | South Africa | 117* | 51 | 5 | 13 | New Zealand | Hamilton | 19-Feb-2012 |
Evin Lewis | Windies | 125* | 62 | 6 | 12 | India | Kingston | 9-Jul-2017 |
Chris Gayle | Windies | 100* | 48 | 5 | 11 | England | Mumbai | 16-Mar-2016 |
Chris Gayle | Windies | 117 | 57 | 7 | 10 | South Africa | Johannesburg | 11-Sep-2007 |
Corey Anderson | New Zealand | 94* | 41 | 2 | 10 | Bangladesh | Mount Maunganui | 8-Jan-2017 |
Lewis scored his 2nd T20I hundred and has scored both of them against the Indians. He scored 100 off 49 balls in last year’s T20I series with the help of 9 sixes. He has hit a total of 21 sixes in T20Is against India in just 3 innings. Only 4 players (Gayle vs 3 oppositions) including Lewis so far have hit 20 or more sixes in T20I cricket against a single opposition.
Most sixes against a single opposition in T20I cricket:
Player | Opposition | Inns | Runs | Balls | Fours | Sixes |
Chris Gayle | South Africa | 7 | 307 | 157 | 24 | 25 |
Chris Gayle | England | 10 | 349 | 223 | 32 | 24 |
Aaron Finch | England | 7 | 321 | 178 | 25 | 22 |
Evin Lewis | India | 3 | 232 | 117 | 12 | 21 |
Chris Gayle | Australia | 8 | 299 | 187 | 25 | 20 |
Shane Watson | India | 8 | 302 | 191 | 18 | 20 |
The Windies’ left-handed batsman has so far hit 57 boundaries in T20Is out of which 37 are sixes which meant that he scored 17 sixes more than the number of fours he has hit in this format so far. Among the players who have hit 15 and more sixes in T20Is, no player has a bigger difference between the number of sixes and fours than Lewis.
Players who have hit more sixes than fours in T20I career: (Min: 15 career sixes)
Player | Team | Matches | Innings | Fours | Sixes | Difference |
Evin Lewis | Windies | 13 | 13 | 20 | 37 | 17 |
Albie Morkel | South Africa | 50 | 38 | 29 | 39 | 10 |
Yusuf Pathan | India | 22 | 18 | 11 | 17 | 6 |
Tanwir Afzal | Hong Kong | 21 | 18 | 9 | 15 | 6 |
Rakep Patel | Kenya | 22 | 19 | 16 | 20 | 4 |
Lewis, who has played 274 balls in his T20I career has scored 417 runs with the help of 37 sixes. At an average, he hits a six every 7.41 balls and the sixes he has hit occupies 34.74 percentage of his career runs. Among the players who have hit a minimum of 10 sixes, no other player takes less than 8 balls per six and has over 30 percent of career runs scored in sixes in the format.
Average balls per six for a player in T20I cricket:
Player | Team | Innings | Balls faced | Fours | Sixes | Average Balls taken for a Six |
Evin Lewis | Windies | 13 | 274 | 20 | 37 | 7.41 |
Craig McMillan | New Zealand | 7 | 117 | 8 | 14 | 8.36 |
Yusuf Pathan | India | 18 | 161 | 11 | 17 | 9.47 |
Justin Ontong | South Africa | 10 | 109 | 6 | 11 | 9.91 |
Carlos Brathwaite | Windies | 13 | 139 | 10 | 14 | 9.93 |
The highest percentage of career runs scored with sixes in T20I cricket:
Player | Team | Innings | Runs | Fours | Sixes | Percentage of runs in Sixes |
Evin Lewis | Windies | 13 | 417 | 20 | 37 | 34.74 |
Albie Morkel | South Africa | 38 | 572 | 29 | 39 | 29.03 |
Chris Gayle | Windies | 48 | 1537 | 131 | 99 | 27.87 |
Colin Munro | New Zealand | 29 | 601 | 41 | 38 | 27.5 |
Yuvraj Singh | India | 51 | 1177 | 77 | 74 | 27.39 |
(Stats as on July 10, 2017)
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