AB de Villiers of South Africa became the first batsman to score fifty boundary sixes in a calendar year. He achieved the feat when he scored his third boundary six – off Bhuvaneshwar Kumar over mid wickert which was a mishit – to credit himself with the first ever batsman to score fifty boundary sixes in a calendar year. At the end of this game, his aggregate of boundary sixes read 58.

The previous record for most sixes in a calendar year was held by Shahid Afridi of Pakistan who had a total of 48 boundary sixes in calendar year 2002. AB de Villiers was one boundary sixe shy of Shahid Afridi prior to the start of the final one day game against India and required two boundary sixes to rewrite the record of most boundary sixes in a calendar year,

The following table furnishes the performance of AB de Villiers in the calendar year 2015 – as of 25.10.15. He has played 20 games, 18 innings, twice not out, aggregate runs 1193, Highest Score 163 not out, Average 79.53, five centuries, five half centuries, 91 boundary fours and 58 boundary sixes.

No	Opposition	Ground	Start Date	Inns	Runs	6s
1	West Indies	Durban	16 Jan 2015	1	81	0
2	West Indies	Johannesburg	18 Jan 2015	1	149	16
3	West Indies	East London	21 Jan 2015	2	DNB	–
4	West Indies	Port Elizabeth	25 Jan 2015	1	19	0
5	Zimbabwe	Hamilton	15 Feb 2015	1	25	1
6	India	Melbourne	22 Feb 2015	2	30	0
7	West Indies	Sydney	27 Feb 2015	1	162*	8
8	Ireland	Canberra	03 Mar 2015	1	24	2
9	Pakistan	Auckland	07 Mar 2015	2	77	5
10	U.A.E.	Wellington	12 Mar 2015	1	99	4
11	Sri Lanka	Sydney	18 Mar 2015	2	DNB	–
12	New Zealand	Auckland	24 Mar 2015	1	65*	1
13	New Zealand	Centurion	19 Aug 2015	1	9	0
14	New Zealand	Potchefstroom	23 Aug 2015	1	31	0
15	New Zealand	Durban	26 Aug 2015	1	64	1
16	India	Kanpur	11 Oct 2015	1	104*	6
17	India	Indore	14 Oct 2015	2	19	1
18	India	Rajkot	18 Oct 2015	1	4	0
19	India	Chennai	22 Oct 2015	2	112	2
20	India	Mumbai	25 Oct 2015	1	119	11
			Total		1193	58

AB de Viiliers also became the first captain to score fifty boundary sixes in a calendar year. He achieved the feat when he scored his third boundary six – off Bhuvaneshwar Kumar over mid wickert which was a mishit – to credit himself with the first ever batsman to score fifty boundary sixes in a calendar year. At the end of this game, his aggregate of boundary sixes read 58.

The previous record for most boundary sixes by a captain in a calendar year was held by SC Ganguly of India who had an aggregate of 34 boundary sixes in the calendar year 2000.

It should be noted with interest that no batsman or captain has ever scored fifty plus boundary sixes in a calendar year since the inception of the game in 1971 which means 43 years since 1971