In the men's T20 gold medal match at the 2026 Asian Games, Abhishek Sharma hit seven sixes in a 28-ball 61, matching Yuvraj Singh’s India–Pakistan innings record and extending several six-hitting milestones for the year.
Abhishek Sharma scored 61 off 28 balls with seven sixes and three fours (SR 217.68) in the Asian Games gold-medal match.
Sharma has 104 sixes in 2026 and reached 100 sixes in a calendar year in 651 balls, second-fastest behind Andre Russell.
Abhishek Sharma opened for India in the men's T20 gold medal match at the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya and produced a rapid 61 off 28 balls. He struck seven sixes and three fours, finishing with a strike rate of 217.68. India posted 211/6 in the match.
Sharma's seven sixes in that innings matched the most sixes hit in an India–Pakistan T20I innings, a mark set by Yuvraj Singh in Ahmedabad in 2012. Sharma had previously hit five sixes against Pakistan in Dubai during the 2025 Asia Cup. With this knock his career total of sixes against Pakistan in T20Is rose to 14, overtaking Virat Kohli's 11.
Beyond the India–Pakistan records, the innings feeds into larger year-by-year and career milestones for Sharma. He has hit 104 sixes in 2026 so far, following a record 108 sixes in 2025 and 87 in 2024. He reached 100 sixes in a calendar year in 651 balls in 2026, which ranks second-fastest behind Andre Russell's 589 balls in 2019. He has also reached 400 T20 sixes in 3,513 balls, placing him third on the listed sequence after Russell (3,027) and ahead of Chris Gayle (3,557).
Sharma's quickfire half-century provided momentum at the top. Tilak Varma supported the total with an unbeaten 51 off 22 balls. India's 211/6 set a strong target in the gold medal match. For Pakistan, Ahmed Daniyal and Arafat Minhas each took two wickets.
The innings adds to Sharma's year-long six-hitting yield and cements his position at the top of several shortlists for 2026. It also directly contributed to India's imposing total in a high-stakes final against Pakistan at the Asian Games.
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