Seven sixes in a over of 43 runs, Ruturaj Gaikwad creates world record
Public Lokpal
November 28, 2022
Seven sixes in a over of 43 runs, Ruturaj Gaikwad creates world record
Ahmedabad : Maharashtra captain Ruturaj Gaikwad smashed seven sixes in an over to set a List A world record in the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Monday.
The over fetched him 43 runs, matching the joint effort of Brett Hampton and Joe Carter off Willem Ludick for Northern Districts against Central Districts in a Ford Trophy game from 2018.
Ruturaj rewrote the record in the penultimate over of his team's Vijay Hazare Trophy quarterfinal match against Uttar Pradesh in Ahmedabad, with Shiva Singh being the bowler. It was a seven ball over because of a no ball.
The record came in the 49th over of Maharashtra's innings after they were put into bat by Uttar Pradesh. Batting on 165 off 147 balls, Gaikwad carted slow left-arm bowler Shiva Singh for seven consecutive sixes, with the fifth ball being bowled again on account of Singh overstepping. Between long on and deep midwicket, each of the seven sixes came off clean cricketing hits as Gaikwad cleared his front leg to swing through his arc. End of the over, he had raced to 207 off 154 balls. Maharashtra finished on 330/5.
With this feat, Gaikwad becomes the first batter in limited-overs cricket to score 43 runs in an over. Only once before in List A cricket has 43 runs been scored in an over, by Northern Districts' Joe Carter and Brett Hampton against Central Districts in Hamilton, in 2018. Gaikwad finished with 16 sixes, equaling Jaskaran Malhotra, Soumya Sarkar, AB de Villiers and Rohit Sharma on the list of most sixes in a List A individual innings, behind Eoin Morgan and Namibia's Gerrie Synman (17) and D'Arcy Short who had hit 23 sixes for Western Australia against Queensland in 2018.
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