India batsman Ruturaj Gaikwad on Monday smashed an unprecedented sevensuccessive sixes in one over of a 50-overs domestic match — courtesy of ano-ball.
Gaikwad, who has played one ODI and nine Twenty20 matches for India,hammered 42 runs for Maharashtra in a seven-delivery over against UttarPradesh.
The quarter-final of the Vijay Hazare Trophy — India’s inter-state 50-overcompetition — took place at the world’s biggest cricket stadium, inAhmedabad.
Gaikwad is the first player to hit seven sixes in one over in a List Acategory match.
But Lee Germon of New Zealand holds the all-time List A record with eightsixes in a bizarre 77-run over of multiple deliberate wides and no-balls ina 1990 Shell Trophy match, when Wellington intentionally gave away runs totry to tempt Canterbury into recklessness.
Gaikwad, 25, finished unbeaten on 220 as his team made 330-5.
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Left-arm spinner Shiva Singh was on the receiving end of his six-hittingblitz in the 49th over.
Gaikwad made his T20 international debut last year after a sterlingperformance as an attacking opener with Chennai Super Kings in the IndianPremier League.
It is the second record by an Indian batsman in as many weeks, after TamilNadu’s N Jagadeesan smashed 277 against Arunachal Pradesh, the highest everscore in the 50-over format, surpassing the 268 of England’s Alistair Brownagainst Glamorgan in 2002. -APP/AFP
