Blair Tickner breaks 23-year-old world record against Indian bowlers

In the first ODI match played between India and New Zealand at Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand fast bowler Blair Tickner delivered a brilliant performance with the bat and set a major world record. The New Zealand team was struggling heavily against the tight and excellent bowling of the Indian bowlers, and at one point, they were 9 wickets down for 146 runs. In such a difficult situation, Blair Tickner, who came out to bat at number 11, created a storm on the field.

According to an Aaj Tak news report, Blair Tickner played an aggressive innings of just 23 balls, in which he scored 34 runs with the help of 1 four and 4 sixes. During this stormy innings, Tickner surprised the Indian bowlers by hitting three consecutive sixes in the final over of Arshdeep Singh. With this performance, he has become the third batsman in the world to hit the most 4 sixes in an innings while batting at number 11 in the history of ODI cricket.

Before Tickner, this achievement was attained by only two players from Pakistan. Mohammad Amir against England in 2016 and Naseem Shah against New Zealand in 2025 had hit 4 sixes while batting at number 11. Now, Blair Tickner has also joined this prestigious list.

With this, Tickner has also broken the 23-year-old record of New Zealand legend Shane Bond. The record for hitting the most sixes in an ODI innings while batting at number 11 for New Zealand was held by Shane Bond until now. Bond had hit 3 sixes against India itself in Auckland on 11 January 2003. By hitting 4 sixes, Blair Tickner has broken the record of his own country's legend and created new history.

Talking about other New Zealand players, Chris Pringle hit 2 sixes against West Indies in 1994 and Trent Boult hit 2 sixes against Sri Lanka in 2015, but Tickner has left all these records behind.

Due to this counter-attacking innings by Blair Tickner, the New Zealand team was able to reach 185 runs in 40.2 overs. From New Zealand, Tim Seifert contributed 38 runs and Glenn Phillips contributed 30 runs. Talking about the Indian bowling performance, Arshdeep Singh took the most 4 wickets, while Gurnoor Brar took 3 wickets and Anshul Kamboj took 2 wickets.

In other updates of the match, it was reported that for the Indian team chasing the target, the partnership of Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli put Team India in a strong position, in which a 50-run partnership took place between the two.