Longest six in Cricket: Tom Kohler-Cadmore hits 108m six vs Quetta Gladiators in PSL 2022

Gurpreet Singh | 28/01/2022
Longest six in Cricket: Tom Kohler-Cadmore hits 108m six vs Quetta Gladiators in PSL 2022

Longest six in Cricket: Tom Kohler-Cadmore hits a gigantic six during Peshawar Zalmi versus Quetta Gladiators match in PLS 2022.

During the second match of the ongoing seventh season of the Pakistan Super League between Quetta Gladiators and Peshawar Zalmi at the National Stadium in Karachi, Peshawar’s wicket-keeper batter Tom Kohler-Cadmore hit a humongous 108 meters six off Gladiator’s left-arm spinner Mohammad Nawaz to leave the commentators slack-jawed.

The event happened during the first delivery of the 6th Over bowled by Nawaz. Bowling from around the wicket, the off-spinner bowled a tossed-up half-volley delivery to which the English batter threw the kitchen sink to slog-sweep it high into the night sky, towards the mid-wicket area.

The ball landed just inside the stadium, underneath the roof as the distance of the maximum read 108m on the giant screen.

However, it was Nazaw who had the last laugh, as he dismissed the English uncapped batter for the score of 22 (16), with another tossed-up delivery, this time outside the off-stump only for the ball to hit the bat’s toe-end to hand a simple catch towards the fielder at Backward Point.

At the time of writing, the match is slightly titled in favour of Peshawar, with another 49 runs required off 32 deliveries. Skipper Shoaib Malik (23* off 19) and Hussain Talat (41* off 21) have added 65* (36) runs for the 4th wicket so far en route the score of 190/4 posted by the Quetta Gladdiators.

Earlier the Gladiators’ opening pair of Will Smeed (97 off 62) and Ahsan Ali (73 off 46) stitched together a 155-run partnership- the third-highest opening partnership in the PSL.

Longest six in Cricket

As far as the record for longest six in International cricket is concerned, it is Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi who makes it to the top of the list, after he hit a 158m six against South Africa, during the 3rd ODI at Johannesburg on March 17, 2013.

Top 5 longest sixes 

Batter Team Opposition Distance Year
Shahid Afridi Pakistan South Africa 158m 2013
Brett Lee Austrtalia West Indies 143m 2005
Liam Livingstone England Pakistan 122m 2021
Corey Anderson New Zealand India 122m 2014
Yuvraj Singh India Australia 120m 2007

 

Post Edited By: Gurpreet Singh
Peshawar Zalmi PSL PSL 2022 Quetta Gladiators Tom Kohler-Cadmore

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Gurpreet Singh

Gurpreet Singh is a Cricket writer at The Sportsrush. His platonic relationship with sports had always been there since childhood, but Cricket managed to strike a special, intimate nerve of his heart. Although his initial dream of playing the sport at the highest level couldn't come to fruition, Gurpreet did represent the state of Jharkhand at the under-14 level. However, almost like taking a pledge to never let the undying passion for Cricket fade away even a tad, he made sure to continue the love relationship by assigning the field of journalism as an indirect Cupid. He thus, first finished his bachelor's in journalism and then pursued the PG Diploma course in English journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). Soon after and since 2019, he has been working at The Sportsrush. Apart from sports, he takes keen interest in politics, and in understanding women and gender-related issues.

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