New Zealand opener Finn Allen wreaked havoc within the opening recreation of the Main League Cricket (MLC) 2025 season as he smashed the file for many sixes in a T20 innings for the San Francisco Unicorns in opposition to the Washington Freedom on the Oakland Coliseum on Friday.
Allen clobbered his file nineteenth most to deliver up his 150 in solely 49 balls, the quickest 150 in T20 cricket. Allen’s most to succeed in the milestone broke the earlier better of Chris Gayle and Estonia’s Sahil Chauhan of 18 sixes every to set the brand new world file for sixes in a males’s T20 innings.
Batting first on the match’s latest venue after dropping 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 obtained 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 harm with 5 extra sixes as he hit the file 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 closing, runner-ups Unicorns completed with 269 for 5 on the board in opposition to the reigning champs, making the highest-ever males’s T20 complete in the US.
Finn Allen’s out right here breaking data 💯 He smashed the quickest century in MLC historical past for the @SFOUnicorns! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/SVyQ9n99Rf
— Cognizant Main League Cricket (@MLCricket) June 13, 2025
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Allen has aggregated over 4,100 T20 runs in 151 profession innings, together with his 173.27 batting strike price rating the very best of all batters who’ve aggregated a minimum of 1,000 runs. In January 2024, Allen broke Brendon McCullum’s New Zealand T20I file by scoring 137 runs off simply 62 balls in opposition to 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 price can be the very best 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