India Women Most Sixes: International Records

Smriti Mandhana has hit 167 sixes in international cricket for India — 88 in Twenty20 internationals, 74 in one-day internationals, five in Tests. Harmanpreet Kaur has hit at least 146, and the qualifier is not caution on my part: ESPNcricinfo's records for several of India's early Twenty20 internationals do not carry a complete boundary breakdown, so her T20I figure is published as 89 or more rather than as a flat number.

That makes the top of this leaderboard genuinely unsettled. Harmanpreet leads the Twenty20 column on a figure that cannot go down, Mandhana leads every other column outright, and the honest summary is that the two of them are the only India women anywhere near 150 international sixes.

Behind them the list drops fast and then tells a different story. Shafali Verma has 105 despite playing fewer than half as many internationals as Harmanpreet, and fourteen of hers came in seven Test matches — more Test sixes than the rest of India's women's Test history combined.

The all-format six count

Qualification: fifteen or more international sixes. A figure shown with a plus sign is Statsguru's own notation for an incomplete boundary record: the true total is that number or higher.

Player	Span	Test	ODI	T20I	Total
Smriti Mandhana	2013-2026	5	74	88	167
Harmanpreet Kaur	2009-2026	0	57	89+	146+
Shafali Verma	2019-2026	14	9	82	105
Richa Ghosh	2020-2026	0	38	46	84
Jemimah Rodrigues	2018-2026	0	6 or fewer	28	34 or fewer
Mithali Raj	1999-2022	0	19+	11+	30+
Deepti Sharma	2014-2026	1	19	8	28
Jhulan Goswami	2002-2022	0	11+	10+	21+
Veda Krishnamurthy	2011-2020	0	6	11+	17+
Pooja Vastrakar	2018-2024	0	11	5	16

Four of the top five are current players and the fifth, Mithali Raj, retired in 2022 with fewer sixes across 314 international innings than Richa Ghosh has managed in 126. That is not a criticism of Raj, who batted in an era of 240-run one-day totals; it is the clearest single measure of how the format changed under her.

Jemimah Rodrigues appears with a range rather than a figure. Her Twenty20 count is exact at 28, but her one-day total sits below the cut-off of the ranked list checked for this page, so all that can honestly be said is that it is six or fewer.

Twenty20 internationals: 89 or more, and 88

Player	Span	Inns	Runs	4s	6s
Harmanpreet Kaur	2009-2026	181	4,216	405+	89+
Smriti Mandhana	2013-2026	165	4,538	614	88
Shafali Verma	2019-2026	110	2,901	376	82
Richa Ghosh	2020-2026	74	1,333	154	46
Jemimah Rodrigues	2018-2026	118	2,824	319	28
Veda Krishnamurthy	2011-2020	63	875	82+	11+
Mithali Raj	2006-2019	84	2,364	242+	11+
Jhulan Goswami	2006-2018	46	405	22+	10+
Deepti Sharma	2016-2026	96	1,270	115	8
D Hemalatha	2018-2024	21	276	28	8

Shafali Verma's 82 from 110 innings is the highest rate in the table — one six every 1.34 innings, against Harmanpreet's one every 2.03 and Mandhana's one every 1.88. She has been an opener from her first cap at fifteen and has never batted any other way.

The four-to-six ratio is worth reading across the rows. Mandhana has 614 fours to 88 sixes, seven to one; Shafali has 376 to 82, four and a half to one; Richa Ghosh has 154 to 46, barely over three to one. Ghosh comes in at five or six with ten overs left and swings; Mandhana faces the new ball and cuts and drives. Two very different jobs produce similar career strike rates.

Hemalatha Dhandapani, listed in the records as D Hemalatha, has eight sixes from 21 innings and 276 runs, the most concentrated six-hitting on the list at one every 34 runs she scored. She played 23 Twenty20 internationals in six years without ever settling in the side.

One-day internationals

Player	Span	Inns	Runs	4s	6s
Smriti Mandhana	2013-2026	120	5,411	653	74
Harmanpreet Kaur	2009-2026	143	4,541	448	57
Richa Ghosh	2021-2026	52	1,208	126	38
Mithali Raj	1999-2022	211	7,805	805+	19+
Deepti Sharma	2014-2026	106	2,771	263	19
Jhulan Goswami	2002-2022	121	1,228	108+	11+
Pooja Vastrakar	2018-2024	28	585	51	11
Pratika Rawal	2024-2026	26	1,189	141	10
Shafali Verma	2021-2026	32	745	91	9
Rumeli Dhar	2003-2012	60	961	83	8
Harleen Deol	2019-2026	35	1,064	112	7
Amita Sharma	2002-2014	73	926	95	7

Richa Ghosh's 38 in 52 innings is the outlier here by a wide margin: she has hit a six every 1.37 innings in a format where India's next-best rate belongs to Mandhana at one every 1.62, and she has done it batting almost entirely in the second half of the innings.

Mithali Raj's 19 or more from 211 innings works out at fewer than one every ten times she batted. She scored 7,805 one-day runs, more than any India woman, and did it almost entirely along the ground.

Rumeli Dhar and Amita Sharma are the two entries from the 2000s, both bowling all-rounders, both with seven. India's specialist batters of that decade have none in the top twelve, which says something about who was allowed to play that way.

Shafali Verma's fourteen Test sixes

Player	Span	Mat	Inns	Runs	4s	6s
Shafali Verma	2021-2026	7	14	640	89	14
Smriti Mandhana	2014-2026	9	16	788	128	5
Yastika Bhatia	2021-2026	4	7	223	30	1
Thirush Kamini	2014-2014	2	3	237	28	1
Deepti Sharma	2021-2026	7	11	402	51	1

Twenty-two Test sixes in fifty years of India women's Test cricket, and fourteen of them belong to one batter across five seasons. No India woman before 2014 has a recorded Test six at all, which is partly a record-keeping gap for the 1976-1995 matches and partly the truth about how those innings were built.

Shafali's 89 Test fours and 14 sixes came in fourteen innings, including 205 against South Africa at Chennai in June 2024. She has one Test hundred and it is a double.

The biggest six-hitting innings

Twenty20 internationals:

6s	Score	Player	Balls	Opponent	Venue	Date
8	103	Harmanpreet Kaur	51	New Zealand	Providence, Guyana	9 Nov 2018
5	63	Harmanpreet Kaur	38	Sri Lanka	Katunayake	25 Sep 2018
5	60	Shafali Verma	30	South Africa	Lucknow	23 Mar 2021
5	67	Shafali Verma	39	Malaysia	Hangzhou	21 Sep 2023
5	54	Richa Ghosh	21	West Indies	DY Patil, Navi Mumbai	19 Dec 2024
4	73	Shafali Verma	49	West Indies	Gros Islet	9 Nov 2019
4	39	Shafali Verma	17	Bangladesh	Perth	24 Feb 2020
4	79	Smriti Mandhana	49	Australia	DY Patil, Navi Mumbai	11 Dec 2022

One-day internationals:

6s	Score	Player	Balls	Opponent	Venue	Date
7	171*	Harmanpreet Kaur	115	Australia	Derby	20 Jul 2017
7	135	Smriti Mandhana	80	Ireland	Rajkot	15 Jan 2025
5	125	Smriti Mandhana	63	Australia	Delhi	20 Sep 2025
4	113*	Thirush Kamini	146	Ireland	Colombo (PSS)	10 Feb 2017
4	86	Smriti Mandhana	109	England	Nagpur	6 Apr 2018
4	52	Richa Ghosh	29	New Zealand	Queenstown	22 Feb 2022
4	143*	Harmanpreet Kaur	111	England	Canterbury	21 Sep 2022

Richa Ghosh's 54 from 21 balls at DY Patil is the most violent innings in either table by rate — five sixes in a stay of three and a half overs. Shafali Verma's 39 from 17 at Perth is the same shape in a losing cause.

Harmanpreet's 171 not out at Derby, made in the 2017 World Cup semi-final against Australia, is the only India women's innings with seven sixes in the fifty-over game until Mandhana matched it at Rajkot eight years later, and Mandhana's came from 35 fewer balls.

Why the numbers jump after 2018

Four of the ten leading all-format six-hitters made their debut in 2018 or later, and they own three of the four fastest six-per-innings rates on this page. That is not only a fitness or technique story — it is a scheduling one. India women had played 225 Twenty20 internationals by August 2026, and the rate at which they play them has risen sharply since 2017.

The other change is domestic. The Women's Premier League gave India's middle order a competition in which clearing the rope in the last five overs is the job description rather than a risk, and the two players whose four-to-six ratios are lowest on this page, Richa Ghosh and Shafali Verma, are both products of it. The competition is described on the Women's Premier League guide page, and the state-level structure beneath it on the women's domestic cricket page.

Where the sixes were hit has changed too. DY Patil Stadium at Navi Mumbai appears three times in the innings tables above, and it is now one of India's regular women's international venues; its wider record sits on the DY Patil Stadium records page.

What the six count rewards

It rewards recent careers, and it rewards openers. Every player in the top four of the all-format table was still playing in 2026, and the three highest rates on the page — Shafali in T20Is, Richa Ghosh in ODIs, Shafali in Tests — belong to batters with licence from the first ball of their innings.

It punishes anyone who played before ball-by-ball data was collected consistently. Sandhya Agarwal scored 1,110 Test runs and her boundary record is published as three or more fours and zero or more sixes, which tells you nothing. The same gap affects Shantha Rangaswamy, Diana Edulji and every India woman who played before the mid-1990s, so this page cannot be read as a complete history.

And it measures a shot, not an innings. Mandhana's 167 sixes sit alongside fourteen one-day hundreds on the India women most centuries list and 75 international fifties on the India women most fifties list — the six count is the least important of the three and the one that changed most. The bowling side of the same shift is on the India women most wickets page, the team's longer arc on the India women's cricket history page, and the rest of the game on the cricket in India hub.

Sources and method

Boundary counts, innings, runs and career spans come from ESPNcricinfo's Statsguru career and innings records for India Women in women's Tests, women's one-day internationals and women's Twenty20 internationals, read on 27 August 2026.

The plus-sign notation is Statsguru's, not mine. It appears where the ball-by-ball record for one or more innings in a player's career does not carry a boundary breakdown, and it means the published figure is a floor. I have kept it rather than rounding it away, because for Harmanpreet Kaur's Twenty20 total it is the difference between a certain lead and an assumed one.

All-format totals are computed by addition from the three separate format records; there is no combined women's international class in Statsguru. Jemimah Rodrigues's one-day figure is given as a bound because her exact total sits below the display cut-off of the ranked six-hitting list, and a range is more honest than a guess.

Per-innings rates — sixes per innings, runs per six, fours-to-sixes — are my arithmetic on the published career figures and are not Statsguru columns. Where a player's boundary record carries a plus sign, no rate has been calculated from it.

The innings tables are drawn from the ranked six-hitting innings lists for each format and are complete down to the number of sixes shown in the last row. Nothing here has been estimated, and boundary figures for matches before the mid-1990s have been treated as unavailable rather than as zero.