Pakistan's Shahid Afridi [ Images ] became the batsman with the most number of sixes in one-day internationals in the first final of VB Series against Australia [ Images ] on Friday.
The six that he hit off Shane Watson [ Images ] was 189th of his career which took him past Sri Lankan Sanath Jayasuriya's [ Images ] tally of 188 sixes.
Interestingly, Afridi took 136 matches less than Jayasuriya to overhaul his record.
The accompanying table lists the batsmen with 100 or more sixes in ODIs:
| 6s | Batsman | Mts | Inns | Runs | HS | Ave | SR | 6/Inns |
| 190 | Shahid Afridi (Pak) | 198 | 189 | 4325 | 109 | 24.02 | 105.28 | 1.01 |
| 188 | ST Jayasuriya (SL) | 334 | 325 | 9924 | 189 | 31.90 | 88.57 | 0.57 |
| 168 | SC Ganguly (Ind) | 267 | 258 | 9936 | 183 | 41.74 | 74.28 | 0.65 |
| 144 | CL Cairns (NZ) | 199 | 180 | 4697 | 115 | 29.72 | 83.54 | 0.80 |
| 142 | SR Tendulkar (Ind) | 342 | 333 | 13497 | 186* | 44.84 | 86.20 | 0.42 |
| 131 | Inzamam-ul-Haq [ Images ] (Pak) | 335 | 311 | 10631 | 137* | 39.81 | 73.91 | 0.42 |
| 126 | IVA Richards (WI) | 187 | 167 | 6721 | 189* | 47.00 | 90.20 | 0.75 |
| 121 | Wasim Akram [ Images ] (Pak) | 356 | 280 | 3717 | 86 | 16.52 | 88.28 | 0.43 |
| 110 | BC Lara (WI) | 251 | 244 | 9280 | 169 | 42.56 | 79.75 | 0.45 |
| 102 | PA de Silva (SL) | 308 | 296 | 9284 | 145 | 34.90 | 81.13 | 0.34 |
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