Top 5 Batsmen with most first ball boundaries in ODIs

Top 5 Batsmen with most first ball boundaries in ODIs: Opening batsmen usually try to negotiate the new ball by taking some time to settle in, leaving the balls away or going into defensive block. Some players are uncertain, end up getting edges, while a few try to attack straight away. But only a hand full of players have been able to hit a boundary on the first ball of the team’s innings. Out of them, very few players had instincts to send the ball to the fence on regular basis.

Here we look at the Top 5 Batsmen with most first ball boundaries in ODIs:

[Note: Ball by ball tracking system came into existence only from June, 2001. Hence in this article the stats before June, 2001 aren’t included.]

5. Chris Gayle – 5 Times:

Chris Gayle, the beast from Jamaica, has started the West Indies’ innings’ on 5 occasions by sending the ball to the fence. However, Gayle hitting a boundary on first ball of the team’s innings only 5 times was quite less given his reputation and having faced the first ball of the innings on 250+ occasions, the most by any player in the calculated period.

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