India T20I most fours: All-Time Records

Gautam Gambhir hit 109 fours and ten sixes in 36 T20I innings for India. Yuvraj Singh, in the same era and often in the same side, hit 77 fours and 74 sixes in 51. Two openers and finishers of the format's first five years scored in almost opposite proportions, and no pair on this page illustrates better why a fours total needs context.

The leaders are the two batters you would expect. Rohit Sharma hit 383 fours in 151 innings, Virat Kohli 369 in 117. Suryakumar Yadav is third on 297 from 107 innings, and after that the numbers halve: Shikhar Dhawan and KL Rahul share fourth place on 191.

The table ranks fours and carries sixes, balls faced and runs beside them, so that the same 100 fours can be read as a third of one batter's output and nearly half of another's.

The twenty leading four-hitters for India in T20Is

#	Player	Span	Inns	Runs	BF	SR	4s	6s
1	Rohit Sharma	2007-2024	151	4,231	3,003	140.89	383	205
2	Virat Kohli	2010-2024	117	4,188	3,056	137.04	369	124
3	Suryakumar Yadav	2021-2026	107	3,272	2,008	162.94	297	179
4	Shikhar Dhawan	2011-2021	66	1,759	1,392	126.36	191	50
5	KL Rahul	2016-2022	68	2,265	1,628	139.12	191	99
6	Hardik Pandya	2016-2026	109	2,288	1,568	145.91	168	126
7	Ishan Kishan	2021-2026	55	1,608	1,099	146.31	165	77
8	Abhishek Sharma	2024-2026	55	1,629	870	187.24	164	104
9	Suresh Raina	2006-2018	66	1,605	1,190	134.87	145	58
10	Tilak Varma	2023-2026	56	1,645	1,133	145.18	127	83
11	Shreyas Iyer	2017-2026	57	1,415	1,025	138.04	119	51
12	Sanju Samson	2015-2026	58	1,432	918	155.99	119	86
13	MS Dhoni	2006-2019	85	1,617	1,282	126.13	116	52
14	Rishabh Pant	2017-2024	66	1,209	950	127.26	111	44
15	Gautam Gambhir	2007-2012	36	932	783	119.02	109	10
16	Shubman Gill	2023-2025	36	869	627	138.59	98	26
17	Yashasvi Jaiswal	2023-2024	22	723	440	164.31	82	38
18	Yuvraj Singh	2007-2017	51	1,177	863	136.38	77	74
19	Shivam Dube	2019-2026	56	1,127	741	152.09	74	68
20	Dinesh Karthik	2006-2022	47	686	476	144.11	71	28

Ruturaj Gaikwad on 65 and Rinku Singh on 57 are the next two, and Axar Patel on 52 is the leading four-hitter among India's bowlers in the format.

What share of a career comes in fours

Player	Runs in fours	Share of runs	Balls per four
Gautam Gambhir	436	46.8%	7.18
Yashasvi Jaiswal	328	45.4%	5.37
Shubman Gill	392	45.1%	6.40
Shikhar Dhawan	764	43.4%	7.29
Dinesh Karthik	284	41.4%	6.70
Ishan Kishan	660	41.0%	6.66
Abhishek Sharma	656	40.3%	5.30
Suryakumar Yadav	1,188	36.3%	6.76
Rohit Sharma	1,532	36.2%	7.84
Virat Kohli	1,476	35.2%	8.28
MS Dhoni	464	28.7%	11.05
Shivam Dube	296	26.3%	10.01
Yuvraj Singh	308	26.2%	11.21

Abhishek Sharma finds a four every 5.30 deliveries, the shortest gap on the page, and Yashasvi Jaiswal every 5.37. Both open. At the other end Yuvraj Singh needed 11.21 balls per four and MS Dhoni 11.05, and both scored the bulk of their runs in ones, twos and sixes rather than in fours.

Gambhir's 46.8% is the largest four-dependence in the group, and it comes with the lowest strike rate on the page. A batter who takes almost half his runs in fours and hits ten sixes in 36 innings is playing a fifty-over innings in a twenty-over match, which is a fair description of how India's openers batted in 2007.

Fours per six

Player	4s	6s	Fours per six
Gautam Gambhir	109	10	10.90
Shikhar Dhawan	191	50	3.82
Shubman Gill	98	26	3.77
Virat Kohli	369	124	2.98
Dinesh Karthik	71	28	2.54
Rishabh Pant	111	44	2.52
Suresh Raina	145	58	2.50
Rohit Sharma	383	205	1.87
Suryakumar Yadav	297	179	1.66
Abhishek Sharma	164	104	1.58
Sanju Samson	119	86	1.38
Hardik Pandya	168	126	1.33
Shivam Dube	74	68	1.09
Yuvraj Singh	77	74	1.04

The range runs from 10.90 to 1.04, and it does not sort cleanly by era. Gambhir and Yuvraj Singh occupy the two extremes and their careers overlapped almost exactly. Shubman Gill, whose 36 innings all came after 2022, hits 3.77 fours per six — a higher ratio than Kohli's.

The three lowest ratios belong to batters selected for the last six overs: Dube, Pandya and Samson. That is the phase of the innings in which a four is a failed six.

Home and away

Player	Home 4s	Home inns	Away/neutral 4s	Away inns
Virat Kohli	145	45	224	72
Rohit Sharma	136	57	247	94
Suryakumar Yadav	134	50	163	57
Ishan Kishan	109	34	56	21
KL Rahul	93	30	98	38
Hardik Pandya	86	53	82	56
Shikhar Dhawan	79	27	112	39
Abhishek Sharma	73	24	91	31
Suresh Raina	33	20	112	46

Per innings the splits are remarkably level: Kohli struck 3.22 fours per home innings and 3.11 away; Rohit 2.39 and 2.63. Ishan Kishan is the exception at 3.21 at home against 2.67 away, and Suresh Raina the reverse, with 1.65 at home and 2.43 away.

What does move is the strike rate that goes with those fours. Suryakumar Yadav struck at 165.58 at home and 160.70 away, while Virat Kohli managed 148.63 and 130.87 — a 17.76 gap on almost identical four-hitting. The difference is what happened between the boundaries, which the rate ranking of India's best T20I strike rates sets out.

Five observations

The first is that Rohit Sharma leads both the fours and the sixes counts for India in T20Is, with 383 and 205, and no other Indian is first on both boundary lists in any format.

The second is that Kohli hit 369 fours from 3,056 balls, the largest number of deliveries faced by any Indian in the format. Volume of fours here is close to volume of batting: he faced 53 more balls than Rohit and hit 14 fewer fours.

The third is that eight of the twenty have a fours-per-six ratio below two, and all eight played the bulk of their T20I careers after 2015. The format's boundary mix has shifted towards sixes, and the ranking of India's most fours in a T20I innings shows the same movement at team level.

The fourth is that Shikhar Dhawan's 191 fours from 66 innings is the highest count per innings among the batters with more than fifty innings, at 2.89, and his strike rate of 126.36 is the third-lowest in the twenty. Fours alone do not produce a fast innings.

The fifth is that four names on the page are still active and two of them — Abhishek Sharma and Tilak Varma — are at rates that would put them near the top within four years. How the Indian T20I innings changed shape is covered in the guide to India's T20 international history, the country's game in the cricket in India hub, and each career in the player directory.

Sources and method

Fours, sixes, runs, balls faced, innings and strike rates come from ESPNcricinfo's Statsguru career query for India in men's T20 internationals ordered by fours, with the team filter set to India. The home and away table is the same query run with the venue filter set to home and then to away and neutral combined; only rows returned directly by both queries are shown, so no split is reconstructed by subtraction.

The share-of-runs, balls-per-four and fours-per-six columns are computed here from the runs, balls, fours and sixes columns in the main table. They are arithmetic on published figures rather than published statistics themselves, and the inputs are shown so the sums can be checked. Per-innings four rates quoted in the prose come from the home and away table. Figures were read in August 2026 and cover men's T20Is completed to that date; spans ending in 2026 belong to batters who may add to their counts.