The reign of ‘Hitman’ is over, who is Karanvir Singh… who snatched the number one position from Rohit Sharma, became the new sixer king of T20

New Delhi. Whenever it comes to power-hitting and hitting skyscraper sixes in world cricket, the name of former Indian team captain ‘Hitman’ Rohit Sharma comes at the top. Rohit’s record of hitting most sixes in International T20 cricket seemed unbreakable for a long time. But cricket is a game of uncertainties, and this time history has been made not in India or any other traditional cricket superpower, but in the European country Austria. Austria cricket team captain Karanvir Singh has surprised world cricket by snatching the number one position from Rohit Sharma. Now he has become the batsman in the world who has hit the most number of sixes in the International T20 format.

Austria’s captain and opening batsman Karanbir Singh achieved this feat in the T20 International match played against Hungary. He was seen in a completely different mood in this match. He destroyed the Hungarian bowlers and played a stormy innings of 164 runs in just 57 balls. In this explosive innings, he hit 18 fours and 12 skyscraper sixes. During this innings, as soon as he hit his 11th six, he left behind Rohit Sharma’s record of 205 sixes. Now 207 international T20 sixes have been registered in Karanvir’s account.

Thanks to this historic inning of Karanvir, Austria scored a huge score of 322 runs after losing 7 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, the Hungarian team could not bear this pressure and were reduced to 165 runs. Austria won this match by a huge margin of 157 runs. Rohit Sharma had hit 205 sixes in 151 innings, which in itself is considered an excellent average. But Karanvir Singh’s dominance can be understood from the fact that he broke this huge record of Rohit in just 59 innings.

At the age of just 30, the consistency and aggression with which Karanvir has batted is incredible. After this record of his, the list of top 5 batsmen who have hit most sixes in T20 International is as follows:

Who is Karanvir Singh?
Karanvir Singh is currently the captain of the Austrian national cricket team and is considered the biggest pride of cricket in that country. He is a right-handed opening batsman, who is known for dominating the bowlers from the very first ball. Karanvir’s T20 international career has been like a dream. He has scored a total of 2,533 runs in 59 innings of 60 matches played so far at an excellent average of 48.71. During this period, his strike rate has been 175.41, which shows the speed at which he scores runs. He has 4 centuries and 20 half-centuries to his name in International T20.

Karanvir Singh is the ‘run machine’ of Austrian cricket
Karanvir is not only a master in hitting sixes, but he is also the all-time batsman who has scored the most runs for Austria. The year 2025 was the golden year of his career, when he scored a record 1,488 runs in a calendar year. This is also a world record in itself. Even at present he is in excellent form. He also scored a half-century in another match on the same historic day against Hungary. If we look at his performance in the last 5 matches, he has scored one century and one half-century from his bat.