{"id":4314,"date":"2023-12-09T13:30:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T13:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/?p=4314"},"modified":"2023-12-09T13:31:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T13:31:39","slug":"5-batsmen-who-didnt-hit-a-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/5-batsmen-who-didnt-hit-a-six\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Batsmen who didn\u2019t hit a six in their ODI careers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most of the batsmen in today\u2019s era prefer hitting sixes to increase their strike rate and team total, but there were players who preferred ticking the scoreboard with quick singles, and the most they could manage was a four. When cricketers like\u00a0Chris Gayle\u00a0and\u00a0Shahid Afridi\u00a0hit sixes for fun, these batsmen didn\u2019t manage to hit even one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Here are five batsmen who didn\u2019t smash even a single six in their ODI career :<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"5-callum-ferguson-australia\">5.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/callum-ferguson-5236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Callum Ferguson <\/strong><\/a>(Australia)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crickettimes.com\/wp-content\/images\/2016\/07\/Callum-Ferguson.jpg\" alt=\"Batsman Callum Ferguson\" class=\"wp-image-7953\" style=\"width:880px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/virendra-sehwag-on-modis-visit-to-indian-dressing-room\/\"><strong>\u2018Never seen a PM\u2026\u2019: Virendra Sehwag on Modi\u2019s visit to Indian dressing room after World Cup final defeat<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made his international debut for Australia back in 2009 and has played 30 ODI matches for them. He scored 663 runs at an average of 40-plus with 5 half-centuries but has never hit a six in One Day International.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"4-manoj-prabhakar-india\">4.) Manoj Prabhakar (India)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crickettimes.com\/wp-content\/images\/2016\/07\/Manoj-Prabhakar-India.jpg\" alt=\"Manoj Prabhakar (India)\" class=\"wp-image-7954\" style=\"width:880px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Indian all-rounder played 130 One Day International matches and scored 1858 runs in 98 innings. Even after two hundred and 11 half-centuries, he never cleared the fence in ODI cricket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"3-geoffrey-boycott-england\">3.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/geoff-boycott-9187\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geoffrey Boycott<\/a> (England)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crickettimes.com\/wp-content\/images\/2016\/07\/Geoffrey-Boycott.jpg\" alt=\"Geoffrey Boycott\" class=\"wp-image-7955\" style=\"width:880px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The legendary English batsman scored more than 1,000 runs in his ODI career but his strokes never had the elevation. He scored 5 half-centuries and a hundred in his ODI career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"2-thilan-samaraweera-sri-lanka\">2.) Thilan Samaraweera (Sri Lanka)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crickettimes.com\/wp-content\/images\/2016\/07\/Thilan-Samaraweera-.jpg\" alt=\"Thilan Samaraweera\" class=\"wp-image-7956\" style=\"width:880px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s efficient batsman played 53 One Day International (ODI) matches and scored 862 runs. He also scored 2 hundred but didn\u2019t even smash a single six in his 42 innings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"1-dion-ebrahim-zimbabwe\">1.) Dion Ebrahim (Zimbabwe)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crickettimes.com\/wp-content\/images\/2016\/07\/Dion-Ebrahim-.jpg\" alt=\"Dion Ebrahim\" class=\"wp-image-7957\" style=\"width:880px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Zimbabwean batsman couldn\u2019t hit a six both in Tests and ODIs. He played 82 ODI matches and scored one ODI ton along with four half-centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the batsmen in today\u2019s era prefer hitting sixes to increase their strike rate and team total, but there were players who preferred ticking the scoreboard with quick singles, and the most they could&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[402,400,404,44,401],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4318,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions\/4318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}