The cricketing world was electrified as only three players etched their name into the annals of history to ever to hit six sixes in a single over in first-class cricket. Players with six sixes in an over in first-class cricket are:
- Sir Garry Sobers: Sir Garry Sobers was the first player to hit six sixes in an over in first-class cricket. He achieved this historic feat on August 31, 1968, playing as captain for Nottinghamshire against Glamorgan at St Helen’s, Swansea. The bowler was Malcolm Nash, and Sobers hit six consecutive sixes, although the sixth ball led to a catch, but the fielder carried the ball over the boundary resulting in six sixes in that over. Sobers is the pioneer and the most legendary figure associated with the six sixes in an over in first-class cricket, with just a couple of players since replicating the feat at this level.
- Ravi Shastri: Ravi Shastri was the second cricketer in history and the first Indian to hit six sixes in an over in first-class cricket. He achieved this rare feat in January 1985 during a Ranji Trophy match between Bombay (now Mumbai) and Baroda, playing at Wankhede Stadium. Shastri hit six consecutive sixes off left-arm spinner Tilak Raj in one over, scoring 36 runs from those six balls. In that same innings, he also scored a rapid double century off just 113 balls, which was the fastest double hundred in first-class cricket at that time.
- Akash Kumar Choudhary: Akash Kumar Choudhary is the third player who has hit six sixes in an over in first-class cricket. In a Ranji Trophy Plate Group match for Meghalaya against Arunachal Pradesh, he remarkably hit six sixes in a single over bowled by left-arm spinner Limar Dabi. Beyond this, he went further by hitting eight consecutive sixes across the over and subsequent deliveries, setting the record for the fastest fifty in first-class cricket off just 11 balls.
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The echoes of these thunderous sixes reverberate not just in the scorebooks but in cricketing history itself. As Akash Choudhary etches his name alongside legends Sobers and Shastri, the spirit of fearless hitting shines brighter than ever, reminding us that in cricket, the extraordinary is always just one powerful stroke away.
