Jim tops the charts

Date: Saturday 04 July 2009

Jim Allenby is currently top of the Sky Sports Sixes League after a super Twenty20 campaign in 2009.

The table, which is produced in conjunction with the Times newspaper, records the amounts of maximums struck in the FPT, the Twenty20 Cup and Pro40 later this summer.

The all-rounder did not clear the ropes in the FPT, with his early season form suffering because of a side strain.

However, Allenby hit 20 sixes in the Twenty20 Cup, and that puts him top of the league, one ahead of Somerset's Peter Trego.

The duo's big-hitting has not been restricted to one-day cricket.

Although maximums in four-day cricket to not contribute towards the total, Allenby cleared the ropes five times in the Derbyshire draw.

Trego - who hit a century off just 54 balls against Yorkshire on Friday, like Allenby did against Notts in T20 - smashed nine sixes during the whirlwind knock which clinched a stunning three-wicket win as his team chased down the second highest total in Championship history as they scored 476.