Allen smashes Gayle’s T20 cricket sixes record in MLC opener

New Zealand and San Francisco’s Finn Allen hits grounds 19 sixes against Washington successful 2025 Major League Cricket opener.

San Francisco Unicorns opener Finn Allen smashed a grounds 19 sixes successful his unthinkable 151 disconnected 51 balls against defending champions Washington Freedom successful the opening lucifer of the caller Major League Cricket (MLC) season.

The New Zealand planetary opener’s sound connected Thursday evening astatine Unicorns’ Oakland Coliseum, was the Twenty20 league’s highest idiosyncratic people since its 2023 debut season.

Allen’s six-hitting show passed the erstwhile grounds of 18 successful a T20 lucifer held by West Indian large Chris Gayle and Estonian Sahil Chauhan, who registered the sound successful the European Cricket League.

The Unicorns amassed 269-5, an MLC squad record, with Allen taking 34 balls to bring up his 100 against a bowling onslaught that included chap New Zealand internationals Ben Sears, Rachin Ravindra and Glenn Phillips.

Phillips took a drawback astatine long-on to disregard the 26-year-old disconnected Mitchell Owen’s bowling successful the 18th implicit of the innings.

Freedom, led by Australian planetary Glenn Maxwell, were each retired for 146 successful 13.1 overs successful reply, suffering a broad 123-run defeat.

Allen, who was named Player of the Match, has already smashed 2 centuries and 5 fifties successful 52 T20 planetary innings for the Kiwis, and hits astatine a onslaught complaint of 163.

This was his 22nd 50 successful home T20 cricket, wherever helium has besides scored 2 centuries but hits astatine a onslaught complaint of 173.

The Auckland-born Allen, who has yet to marque his Test debut, has besides appeared successful 22 one-day internationals for the Kiwis, wherever helium has deed 5 fifties.

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