{"id":130045,"date":"2023-02-20T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T07:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=130045"},"modified":"2023-02-20T13:11:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T07:41:03","slug":"ben-stokes-breaks-world-record-for-smashing-most-sixes-in-test-cricket-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/ben-stokes-breaks-world-record-for-smashing-most-sixes-in-test-cricket-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stokes breaks world record for smashing most sixes in Test cricket history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ben Stokes breaks world record for smashing most sixes in Test cricket history :<\/strong> England Test captain\u00a0Ben Stokes\u00a0on 18 February became the player to hit the\u00a0most number of sixes in the history of Test cricket,\u00a0surpassing England coach and former New Zealand cricketer\u00a0Brendon McCullum\u00a0in the match against\u00a0New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-february-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">February 2023 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><br><br><strong>An overview of the news<\/strong><br><br>Stokes holds the world record for hitting&nbsp;two sixes&nbsp;in the second innings of the first Test between&nbsp;England and New Zealand at Mount Maunganui (New Zealand). Stokes played an innings of&nbsp;31 runs in 33 balls, which included three fours and two sixes. Wicket-keeper Tom Blundell stumped him off the bowling of all-rounder Michael Bracewell.<br><br>In&nbsp;90 Test matches, Stokes scored a total of&nbsp;5,652 runsat an average of 36.00 with 109 sixes and 12 centuries and 28 fifties. His individual best score in Tests is&nbsp;258. McCullum has&nbsp;107 sixes&nbsp;in&nbsp;101 Tests. He scored&nbsp;6,453 runs&nbsp;at an average of 38.64. He has 12 centuries and 31 fifties in Tests with a best score of 302. Batsman who hit most sixes in test cricket.<br><br>Australia&#8217;s&nbsp;Adam Gilchrist&nbsp;is third after&nbsp;Stokes (109)&nbsp;and&nbsp;McCullum (107)&nbsp;to hit&nbsp;100 sixes&nbsp;in Test cricket. Chris Gayle&nbsp;of West Indies is&nbsp;fourth&nbsp;in the list with&nbsp;98 sixes&nbsp;and&nbsp;Jacques Kallis&nbsp;of South Africa is&nbsp;fifth with 97 sixes. India&#8217;s&nbsp;Virender Sehwag&nbsp;is in&nbsp;sixth place, he has hit&nbsp;91 sixes. Sehwag is the Indian to hit the most sixes in Tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Stokes breaks world record for smashing most sixes in Test cricket history : England Test captain\u00a0Ben Stokes\u00a0on 18 February became the player to hit the\u00a0most number of sixes in the history of Test cricket,\u00a0surpassing England coach and former New Zealand cricketer\u00a0Brendon McCullum\u00a0in the match against\u00a0New Zealand. February 2023 Current Affairs Quiz An overview of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":130046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4999],"tags":[58,59],"class_list":["post-130045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-february-2023","tag-international-current-affairs","tag-sports-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130047,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130045\/revisions\/130047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}