Hitting the ball over the rope/ to clear the fense is one of the beautifull art in cricket & crowd love watching it. This art will reward 6 Runs to a batsman!! & if a batsman does it for a consecutive 6 times in a single over(of 6 deliveries)!! That would be a awesome & will be world record. Here are those world records created by batting masterpieces.
First one : (First class cricket)
Sir Gary Sobers from West Indies was the first person to create this record. But this was however in first class cricket match for nottinghamshire against Glamorgan & that first unfortunate bowler was Malcolm Nash who was a pascer who decided to try spin bowling!
First one : (First class cricket)
Sir Gary Sobers from West Indies was the first person to create this record. But this was however in first class cricket match for nottinghamshire against Glamorgan & that first unfortunate bowler was Malcolm Nash who was a pascer who decided to try spin bowling!
Second Time : (In First class cricket)
Former Indian player Ravi Shastri was the man to repeat this record in 1985 in a match playing for bombay against baroda in the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. The unfortunate bolwer this time was left arm spinner Tilak Raj.(unfortunately no clipping available for this one)
Third Time : (1st time in One day Internationals)
In a match for South Africa against minnows Netherlands at 2007 World Cup, Herschelle Gibbs became score six sixers & became the first person to do it in the international cricket. & the unlucky bowler this time was Leggie Daan van Bunge.
Fourth Edition! (For the first time in T20 Internationals):
Yuvraj Singh(India) hit six sixes to Stuart Broad all over the park in an India Enland Encounter at the innagural edition of the T20 World Cup in 2007. This was the first ever in the T20's.
Yuvraj Singh(India) hit six sixes to Stuart Broad all over the park in an India Enland Encounter at the innagural edition of the T20 World Cup in 2007. This was the first ever in the T20's.
Has anyone hit more than 6 sixes in an over?
Yes!!
not anyone, but sum two!.
LK Germon and RM Ford collectively hit 8 sixes in an over!! of 22 deliveries bowled by RH VANCE, which had so man No-Balls.
No of runs in that over: 75
Total no of balls sent down by bowler: 22
No of sixes hit: 8
The match: Between Canterbury v Wellington at Christchurch in 1989-90
Runs scored of that over was: 0 4 4 4 6 6 4 6 1 4 1 0 6 6 6 6 6 0 0 4 0 1.
Yes!!
not anyone, but sum two!.
LK Germon and RM Ford collectively hit 8 sixes in an over!! of 22 deliveries bowled by RH VANCE, which had so man No-Balls.
No of runs in that over: 75
Total no of balls sent down by bowler: 22
No of sixes hit: 8
The match: Between Canterbury v Wellington at Christchurch in 1989-90
Runs scored of that over was: 0 4 4 4 6 6 4 6 1 4 1 0 6 6 6 6 6 0 0 4 0 1.
