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Most Sixes in PSL History: Full List (2025)

The Pakistan Super League (PSL) has now had nine editions of beautiful fast bowling, expert spin bowling, lots of tight matches and lots of brilliant catches. But one thing that there’s also been no shortage of over the years is big six-hitting. As of the end of the 2024 edition of the PSL and including all the sixes from the 2024 campaign, these are the players who have most often cleared the boundary in the tournament’s history.

James Pacheco
James Pacheco

Last Updated: 2025-01-13

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Islamabad United's wicket keeper Azam Khan (R) celebrates the wicket of Multan Sultans' David Willey

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Most Sixes in PSL

PlayerSpanInnsRunsSR6s
Fakhar Zaman (LQ)2017-2024842525140.27104
Asif Ali (IU/PZ)2016-2024721202156.5190
Kamran Akmal (PZ)2016-2022741972136.9489
Shoaib Malik (KK/MS/PZ)2016-2024872336128.0782
SR Watson (IU/QG)2016-2020461361138.5981
RR Rossouw (MS/QG)2017-2024802015142.779
KA Pollard (KK/MS/PZ)2017-2024481149162.2877
Sharjeel Khan (IU/KK)2016-202348112714074
C Munro (IU/KK)2019-2024471417150.5871
Shadab Khan (IU)2017-2024701240139.3266
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Now it’s time to go through them all and tell you a bit more about the players who have cleared the boundary in the PSL more than any others over the years. 

Meet The Top 10

1.  Fakhar Zaman - 104 Sixes

The Lahore Qalandars opening batter has the most number of sixes in PSL history. 

During the 2023 final match, Zaman hit a six in the 10th over of the match to become the first player in the league’s history to hit 100 sixes. He played a crucial role in the team, winning back-to-back titles in 2022 and 2023. 

With 2525 runs under his belt, he is the 2nd highest run scorer in the tournament’s history in scoring 19 fifties and 2 centuries with a strike rate of 140.27, averaging 30.42. He also has 237 fours to his name when featuring for Qalandars since 2017. 

Fakhar Zaman hit the most sixes in PSL 8. Fakhar hit 27 sixes thus becoming the player to hit most sixes in PSL 2023. Fakhar Zaman also hit the second most sixes in PSL 2022.

By his standards, 2024 was quite a lean season for both his team (Qalandars) who finished bottom and for him personally, as he wasn’t quite able to replicate his form from previous years.  But he still added six more sixes to his tally and will surely be back in 2024 for more. 

2.  Asif Ali - 90 Sixes

The Islamabad United middle-order aggressive batter is third on the list of hitting the most sixes in the Pakistan Super League. 

With 90 maximums under his belt, Asif recently overtook the retired Kamran Akmal by just one six during the 2024 season. 

Having featured for Islamabad United since the first season of the tournament, Asif has batted on 72 occasions, scoring 1202 runs at a wonderful strike rate of 156.51 and averaging 22.25. 

Having faced 768 deliveries in the league, Asif has hit a maximum off every 8th ball he has faced.

He’s another who’s unlikely to get a recall to play for Pakistan at his age but he’s still got it when it comes to hitting maximums in the PSL. 

3.  Kamran Akmal - 89 Sixes

The Peshawar Zalmi wicketkeeper batter featured for the side in 75 matches and has hit 89 sixes in 74 batting innings. No other player in PSL has hit more centuries than Akmal’s 3. The right-handed aggressive batter scored 1972 runs for Zalmi at a strike rate of 136.9 averaging just under 30. He played an instrumental role in Zalmi becoming the PSL champions in 2017, scoring 353 runs with the bat and dismissing 12 batters behind the stumps in the successful season. He was awarded the player of the tournament that year and followed with a 17-ball fifty against Karachi Kings in 2018 which is a record of the fastest 50 in PSL.

Sadly, he’s now retired from PSL and Pakistan duty, which is no real surprise given he made his first-class debut back in 1997 and he’s now 42. Though his brother Umar, eight years his junior, doesn’t play much cricket these days either, his cousin certainly does. It’s none other than Babar Azam! 

4.  Shoaib Malik - 82 Sixes

Playing for three different teams in the league, Shoaib Malik started with Karachi Kings before moving to Multan Sultans and eventually, Peshawar Zalmi, playing 91 matches across eight seasons and scoring 2336 runs in 87 innings with 82 sixes and 169 fours. He strikes the ball at 129.71 with a healthy average of 33.58. 

In the 2024 season, Malik featured for his former franchise Karachi Kings again.

He may be 42 but doesn’t seem to have any plans to retire just yet, still playing domestic T20 cricket at the back end of 2024, suggesting he’ll still be around for the 2025 PSL. 

5.  Shane Watson - 81 Sixes

The Australian dynamic allrounder in his playing days set the stage on fire in every format and every league where he took part. Usually batting in the top order, Shane Watson featured for Islamabad United and Quetta Gladiators in the Pakistan Super League smashing the bowlers for 81 maximums in just 46 deliveries sending the ball out of the park every 12th delivery he faced. 

With 1361 runs at a strike rate of 138.5, Watson emerged as Gladiators’ leading run scorer in the 2019 edition to take his team to the title.

Watson hasn’t featured in the PSL for four years now after he called it a day as a player and has since taken on numerous roles post-retirement, within both the media as a commentator and within Australian cricket as a Director. But we certainly miss his big-hitting as a player. 

6.  Rilee Rossouw - 84 Sixes

The South African import in PSL bats in the middle order and has smeared the bowlers for 79 maximums in the 1412 deliveries he has faced across 80 innings. Featuring in the league since 2017, Rossouw has played for Multan Sultans and Quetta Gladiators. In the 2020 season, Rossouw hit the fastest century of the tournament off just 43 deliveries and broke his record by scoring a 41-ball ton which is now the 2nd fastest century in the tournament’s history. Rossouw also equalled the quickest half-century record in PSL getting to his half-century in only 17 deliveries against Peshawar Zalmi in 2023. Rossouw finished with 2nd most sixes (21) in PSL 8.

2024 was a quiet season for the big man with a top score of just 34 not out, but he’ll be back in 2025 to add to his notable tally of both runs and sixes and will be as focused as ever on this competition now that he doesn’t play for South Africa anymore. 

7.  Kieron Pollard - 77 Sixes

The former West Indies captain is known for his powerful batting, smart bowling and leadership in the T20 format.

The giant batter set the stage on fire in PSL as well hitting 62 sixes in 40 innings. Making his entry in the 2nd season of PSL with Karachi Kings, Pollard hit 11 sixes in the season finishing with 201 runs and was picked to play for Multan Sultans in the 2018 season. He shifted base again in 2019 moving to Peshawar Zalmi and scoring 284 runs helping the team to finish as runners-up. He smashed 23 sixes that season, only 3 behind Asif Ali who topped the charts.

At 37, Pollard is no spring chicken but that doesn’t seem to stop him from clearing the boundary pretty much whenever he pleases. 

And he was back at it in 2024, with his 15 sixes putting him in fourth position for the season for the most maximums. And he did so off just 158 balls faced, proof of just how often he pummels a six in the PSL. 

8.  Sharjeel Khan - 74 Sixes

The aggressive opening left-hand batter is one of the more improved cricketers throughout the Pakistan Super League. Starting with Islamabad United in 2016, Sharjeel hit 19 sixes in the first season itself, finishing at the top of the six-hitting leaderboard. 

After serving a ban and missing two seasons of PSL, he returned in 2020 to playing for Karachi Kings and scoring 216 runs and hitting 16 sixes. He topped the six-hitting charts again in 2021 by smashing 23 hits outside the park. In his overall PSL career, Sharjeel has 1127 runs at a healthy strike rate of 140.

But we won’t be seeing anymore of him. 2023 was his last season in the PSL so his personal record of 74 sixes will surely be overtaken over the next couple of seasons. 

9.  Mohammad Hafeez - 66 Sixes

Nicknamed as the ‘Professor’ the dynamic allrounder Mohammad Hafeez has scored 1731 runs in the Pakistan Super League with the help of 66 sixes. Hafeez played for Peshawar Zalmi for the first three seasons, hitting 25 sixes for the side. He moved to Lahore Qalandars in 2019 playing for the side until 2022 where he smashed 34 sixes with 2021 turning out to be a great season for him where he hit 14 sixes, scoring a total of 271 runs in 10 innings. He was part of the 2022 PSL-winning Qalandars squad and played the 2023 season for Quetta Gladiators.

Another one we won’t see anymore of after he retired as a player in 2023, though he has remained involved with the Pakistani national team in different capacities since. But he was certainly good to watch for all those years he was around and was no stranger to some big hits himself. 

10.  Umar Akmal - 60 Sixes

Umar Akmal announced himself in the Pakistan Super League’s first season, scoring the most runs (335) in the season and hitting 17 sixes, only behind Sharjeel’s tally of 19. 

After not getting enough opportunities for Lahore Qalandars in the next two seasons, Umar moved to Quetta Gladiators, scoring 277 runs with 11 sixes in PSL 2019. Umar also held the record of hitting the most sixes in a PSL innings when he smothered 8 hits out of the park in his stellar knock of 93 off 40 deliveries.

But Akmal’s career was never too far away from controversy and disciplinary problems from fitness issues to on and off-field concerns about his attitude, meaning that despite some good numbers, he never quite fulfilled his potential by the time he retired in 2023. 

Who went big in 2024? Notable Six-Hitting Performances in 2024

So that’s the list of the players who have hit the most sixes in the PSL over the years but who mastered the art of six-hitting in 2024 alone? 

Saim Ayub (21 Sixes in 2024 PSL)

The 22-year-old has made a big splash in international cricket over the past few months in all three formats for Pakistan but part of the reason why he was given a second chance for Pakistan in white-ball cricket after not impressing the first-time round is because of his exploits in the 2024 PSL. 

Representing Peshawar Zalmi, he helped his side finish second in the points table in the Group Stages before they were knocked out in Eliminator 2, at the hands of the Multan Sultans, who went on to finish as runners-up to Islamabad United

In 11 innings, Ayub scored 345 runs with a high score of 88 but crucially, no one matched his 21 sixes for the season. 

Iftikhar Ahmed (17 Sixes in 2024 PSL)

The 34-year-old’s time with Pakistan is probably up after playing close to 100 games for them in all formats but he certainly hasn’t lost the knack to hit sixes, at least not in the PSL. 

Playing for Multan Sultans, he was an ever-present in their run to the final as a cool middle-order batsman who could save his team from precarious positions time and again. 

His strike rate of 193 for the season was exceptional and that’s in no small part to the 17 sixes he hit during the campaign. 

Rassie van der Dussen (16 sixes in the 2024 PSL)

The South African took his time to really make a mark playing outside his home country but these last five years or so have proven very fruitful for the calm, composed middle-order batter. 

Now 35, he played for Lahore Qalandars last year and the fact they finished bottom in the Group Stages and failed to qualify for the Playoffs certainly wasn’t his fault. He ended up fourth for most runs over the course of the season with 364, which included 16 sixes. 

Conclusion 

Fakhar Zaman remains the only man in history to have hit over 100 sixes in the PSL and with many of the players in the chasing pack having retired over the past few seasons, there’s no guarantee that anyone else will reach that milestone anytime soon. 

Asif Ali probably has one more season to get the 10 he needs to reach 100 but at his age, it may be his last chance to do it. The likes of Azam Khan and Mohammad Rizwan may come close if they perform over the next couple of years and decide to go for lots of big hits but still have plenty of work to do given they need 37 and 40 sixes respectively to get to that all-important 100 mark. 

But Fakhar isn’t done just yet and another stellar season or two from the left-hander could see him add another 20 sixes or so, which would be very hard to ever beat indeed. 

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