India, June 13 -- Finn Allen, who has gone unsold in the IPL for three years in a row, went into a never-before-seen six-hitting spree in the first match of the Major League Cricket (MLC), breaking the world record for most sixes in T20s. Playing for the San Francisco Unicorns, Finn Allen, an opening batter of New Zealand, obliterated the Washington Freedom bowling attack at Oakland Coliseum on Friday, breaking multiple records, including Chris Gayle's long-standing world mark for most sixes in a T20 innings.

Allen launched 19 sixes en route to a sensational 151 off just 51 deliveries - a ferocious innings that not only stunned spectators but rewrote the format's record books. His power-hitting spree surpassed the previous record of 18 s...