New Zealand opener Finn Allen wreaked havoc within the opening recreation of the Main League Cricket (MLC) 2025 season as he smashed the report for many sixes in a T20 innings for the San Francisco Unicorns towards the Washington Freedom on the Oakland Coliseum on Friday.
Allen clobbered his report nineteenth most to deliver up his 150 in solely 49 balls, the quickest 150 in T20 cricket. Allen’s most to achieve the milestone broke the earlier better of Chris Gayle and Estonia’s Sahil Chauhan of 18 sixes every to set the brand new world report for sixes in a males’s T20 innings.
Batting first on the match’s latest venue after shedding the toss, Allen butchered the ball from the outset, waltzing to 40 off 14 deliveries contained in the Powerplay with 5 sixes. The onslaught solely received larger from the 26-year-old who went previous 50 in 20 deliveries. Twice the hard-hitting Kiwi opener smacked three sixes in an over as he sped to his fourth T20 century in solely 34 deliveries, the quickest MLC century and the quickest T20 hundred by a New Zealand batter.
Allen doubled the injury with 5 extra sixes as he hit the report nineteenth six within the seventeenth over, earlier than holing out within the following over whereas swinging for his twentieth six. Within the repeat of final yr’s last, runner-ups Unicorns completed with 269 for 5 on the board towards the reigning champs, making the highest-ever males’s T20 complete in the USA.
Watch all 19 sixes from Finn Allen
Probably the most ever sixes in a T20 innings!
This is each single certainly one of Finn Allen’s NINETEEN sixes for the San Francisco Unicorns v Washington Freedom.@SFOUnicorns | @BLACKCAPS pic.twitter.com/OAmpXupwPN
— 7Cricket (@7Cricket) June 13, 2025
Report smasher
Allen has aggregated over 4,100 T20 runs in 151 profession innings, along with his 173.27 batting strike fee rating the perfect of all batters who’ve aggregated a minimum of 1,000 runs. In January 2024, Allen broke Brendon McCullum’s New Zealand T20I report by scoring 137 runs off simply 62 balls towards Pakistan. This innings additionally noticed him hit 16 sixes, equalling Afghanistan’s Hazratullah Zazai for probably the most sixes scored by a single participant in a T20I innings. Allen’s 163.27 T20I strike fee can be the perfect amongst all New Zealand batters.
Allen was signed up by Royal Challengers Bengaluru within the IPL 4 years in the past as a alternative participant earlier than signing up on the IPL 2022 public sale. He, nonetheless, didn’t obtain recreation time with the IPL 2025 champions on the time. Listed at a base value of INR 2 crore on the IPL Mega Public sale final yr, Allen discovered no bidders on the desk.
Most T20 sixes in an innings
19 sixes – Finn Allen (San Franciso Unicorns vs Washington Freedom), 2025
18 sixes- Chris Gayle (Rangpur Riders vs Dynamites), 2017
18 sixes – Sahil Chauhan (Estonia vs Cyprus), 2024