Most sixes by a player in a One-Day International (male)

Eoin Morgan (UK) smashed 17 sixes in an ICC Cricket World Cup match against Afghanistan at Old Trafford in Manchester, UK, on 18 June 2019. The England captain’s 71-ball innings of 148 was the first time a batsman had scored a century of sixes – 102 runs in total – in international cricket.

Morgan is England’s leading run-scorer in ODI cricket, with 6,482 runs in 188 innings (204 matches) since 2009, as of 18 June 2019. He scored 118 of his 148 runs against Afghanistan in boundaries and finished with a strike rate of 208.45 (runs per 100 balls faced).

Morgan also scored 744 runs for Ireland in 2006–09, before switching allegiances to England.

England’s 397 for 6 featured 25 sixes – a record number for a One-Day International.

Three players shared the previous record of 16 sixes: Rohit Sharma (India), against Australia at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore, India, on 2 November 2013; AB de Villiers (South Africa), against the West Indies at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa, on 18 January 2015; and Chris Gayle (Jamaica), for the West Indies against Zimbabwe in an ICC Cricket World Cup match at the Manuka Oval in Canberra, Australia, on 24 February 2015.