West Indies team’s explosive batsman Nicholas Pooran has broken legendary opener Chris Gayle’s record of hitting the most sixes in a calendar year. Nicholas Pooran broke this record after a long gap of 9 years. Let us tell you, Chris Gayle hit 135 sixes in the year 2015. Nicholas Pooran has hit 139 sixes so far in 2024.

This aggressive batsman is currently participating in the Caribbean Premier League. In this great tournament, Nicholas Pooran played an explosive innings of 97 runs with the help of 7 fours and 9 sixes in 43 balls in a match against St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots on 31 August. During this innings, he also broke Chris Gayle’s record of hitting the most sixes in a calendar year.

Veteran player Chris Gayle has included his name six times in the list of hitting the most sixes in a year. At the same time, Nicholas Pooran has been included in this list of top 10 for the first time. In the 2024 season, Nicholas Pooran has participated for a total of 8 T20 teams including the West Indies national team. He has hit 139 sixes in 58 matches so far this season. So far in the 2024 season, Pooran has scored 1844 runs.

Playing for Lucknow Super Giants in the Indian Premier League 2024, the veteran player scored 499 runs and hit 36 ​​sixes in the tournament. Now Nicholas Pooran will look to break more records in the remaining matches of the Caribbean Premier League.

Trinbago Knight Riders won the match by 44 runs

Thanks to Nicholas Pooran’s aggressive innings and Casey Carty’s 73* runs, Trinbago Knight Riders batted first against St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots and scored 250 runs in 20 overs for the loss of four wickets. Apart from these two players, Sunil Narayan contributed 38 runs. In reply, the SNP team could only score 206 runs for the loss of eight wickets in 20 overs. Trinbago Knight Riders have won this match.

The best thing for Trinbago Knight Riders is that Nicholas Pooran is in tremendous form at the moment and he would definitely want to make his mark in the remaining tournament as well.