Ruturaj Gaikwad on Monday smashed an unprecedented seven successive sixes in one over of a 50-overs domestic match – courtesy of a no-ball.
Gaikwad, who has played one ODI and nine T20Is for India, hammered 42 runs for Maharashtra in a seven-delivery over against Uttar Pradesh.
The quarter-final of the Vijay Hazare Trophy – India’s inter-state 50-over competition – took place at the world’s biggest cricket stadium, in Ahmedabad.
Gaikwad is the first player to hit seven sixes in one over in a List A category match.
But Lee Germon of New Zealand holds the all-time List A record with eight sixes in a bizarre 77-run over of multiple deliberate wides and no-balls in a 1990 Shell Trophy match, when Wellington intentionally gave away runs to try to tempt Canterbury into recklessness.
Gaikwad (25) finished unbeaten on 220 as his team made 330-5.
Left-arm spinner Shiva Singh was on the receiving end of his six-hitting blitz in the 49th over.
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Ruturaj Gaikwad smashes 4⃣3⃣ runs in one over! 🔥🔥
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Gaikwad made his T20I debut last year after a sterling performance as an attacking opener with the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL.
It is the second record by an Indian batsman in as many weeks, after Tamil Nadu’s N Jagadeesan smashed 277 against Arunachal Pradesh, the highest-ever score in the 50-over format, surpassing the 268 of England’s Alistair Brown against Glamorgan in 2002.
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