Sixes longer than 100m should get eight or 10 runs: Former Indian all-rounder

Former Indian all-rounder Irfan Pathan has reckoned that the International Cricket Council (ICC) should bring in a new rule for the power-hitters to spice up the game. He stated that it’s high time to have eight or 10 runs for sixes longer than 100m in the shortest format of the game.

Speaking exclusively on his YouTube channel, Pathan brought up this point after Tim David scored a 129m six off Axar Patel in the third T20I, which India comfortably won by five wickets to level the series 1-1.

"Tim David was in the limelight for hitting a 129m six to Axar Patel. Kevin Pietersen has said it for many years, and even I have been saying it that if a batter hits a six longer than 100 meters, he should get eight runs. Now you decide eight, 10, or whatever it is. But this change is very important,” Irfan Pathan said on his YouTube channel.

"There have always been changes, be it with the powerplay, the red ball, the new ball, or reducing the 60-over ODI to 50 overs. Then there came T20 cricket, and we have also seen T10 cricket, which I've played too. So, we have seen the invention of new rules in cricket,” he added.

"A batter getting eight or 10 runs for a six longer than 100 meters is bound to happen. This change is bound to happen either now or in the future. The sooner it happens, the better it is. It should definitely happen in T20s. When that happens, the value of power-hitters will increase even more,” he concluded.

Team India will face Australia in the fourth T20I of the five-match series at Carrara Oval in Queensland on Thursday, November 6. The series is currently levelled at 1-1.

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