The year 2024 is very special for T20 cricket. This year, T20 World Cup is to be organized in West Indies and America. In such a situation, all the teams are focusing specifically on T20 cricket. Meanwhile, a player from Nepal has done a great feat in T20 International and has done something like Yuvraj Singh. This player has created history by hitting 6 sixes in 6 balls of one over. This player is none other than Nepal’s star batsman Deependra Singh Airi. Deependra Singh Airi hit six sixes in an over in the T20 match against Qatar on Saturday. Airi became the first Nepal cricketer to hit six sixes in an over in international cricket.
These players have also done wonders
24-year-old right-handed batsman Deepender Singh has joined cricketers Yuvraj Singh and Kieron Pollard in the list of players who have made a record of hitting six consecutive sixes in an over in T20 International cricket. He hit six sixes off Kamran Khan in the last over to score an unbeaten 64* off 21 balls at the Al Emirates Cricket Ground in Oman Cricket. Yuvraj was the first cricketer to hit six sixes in T20 International cricket, when he hit 6 sixes in an over off England’s Stuart Broad in the 2007 T20 World Cup. Kieron Pollard equaled Yuvraj’s record in 2021 by hitting six sixes off Sri Lanka’s Akila Dananjaya in a T20 game at Coolidge.
Became the 5th player to do so
Deependra Singh Airi broke another big record of Yuvraj Singh during the Asian Games played in Hangzhou last year. He scored a half-century in 9 balls against Mongolia, this is the fastest half-century in T20 cricket. He broke the record made by Yuvraj Singh in the year 2007. In the match in which Yuvraj had hit 6 sixes in 6 balls, he had scored a half-century in 12 balls. Since then no other bowler has broken his record. Former South African batsman Harshal Gibbs was the first cricketer to hit six sixes in an over in ODI cricket. USA’s Jaskaran Malhotra is the second cricketer in ODI cricket to make a record of hitting six sixes in an over. In such a situation, there are now a total of five players who have hit 6 sixes in international cricket.
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