In the opening match of the T20 World Cup 2024, American batsman Aaron Jones achieved an important milestone with a great batting performance.
In the first match of the mega event played in Dallas, American batsman Aaron Jones hit 10 sixes in an innings and became the third batsman in the world to hit the most sixes.
The American batsman is behind only West Indian legend Chris Gayle on the list, who tops the list with 11 and 10 sixes respectively. He is followed by South Africa’s Riley Rossouw at the fourth position with 8 sixes and India’s Yuvraj Singh at the fifth position with 7 sixes.
In the first match of the T20 World Cup, Canada batted first and scored 194 runs in the allotted 20 overs for the loss of 5 wickets, with Navneet Dhaliwal scoring 61 runs off 44 balls which included 6 fours and 3 sixes while Nicholas Curtin also scored 51 runs off 31 balls which included 3 fours and 2 sixes.
Chasing the target, the host USA achieved the target in the 18th over thanks to the aggressiveness of Aaron Jones and Andries Goss, Jones played a match-winning innings of 94 runs off 40 balls with the help of 4 fours and 10 sixes.
It should be noted that the Pakistani team will face the host USA in Dallas on Thursday.