On March 16, 2007, former South Africa opener Herschelle Gibbs grew to become the first participant ever to hit six maximums in on over when SA took on the Netherlands in the 2007 World Cup in West Indies. Gibbs managed the feat in the thirtieth over of the match, with Daan van Bunge bowling and in the course of, remained the first and solely participant to accomplish that in a 50-over World Cup match up to now.
This is how the carnage unfolded:
29.1 — van Bunge bowled a crazy leg-spinner round center and leg, Gibbs charged down the observe and smacked it over lengthy on for a most.
29.2 — van Bunge bowled an analogous supply to the first one and as soon as once more, Gibbs got here down the observe to hit it over long-off for a flat six.
29.3 — van Bunge bowled it flat and out of doors off however sufficient room for Gibbs to free his arms and this time, he stood and delivered. Hit it flush from the center of the bat over lengthy off for one more most.
29.4 — This time van Bunge bowled a flat, low full-toss and Gibbs crunched it over deep midwicket for the fourth six.
29.5 — Van Bunge pulled again the size however landed the ball brief on off stump. Gibbs rocked again shortly and slapped it over vast lengthy off.
29.6 — Enough of spin from Van Bunge as he regarded to bowl a medium tempo supply however he solely managed to bowl it brief, Gibbs as soon as once more rocked again and pulled it over deep mid-wicket to hit the sixth most of the over and set a file.
6️⃣ 6️⃣ 6️⃣ 6️⃣ 6️⃣ 6️⃣ #OnThisDay in 2007, Herschelle Gibbs slammed six sixes in an over against Netherlands in the @cricketworldcup 🙌
He scored 72 runs off just 40 balls, as South Africa reached a massive total of 353/3 in just 40 overs 🤯 pic.twitter.com/6kMWT1J1ny
— ICC (@ICC) March 16, 2020
Gibbs smacked 72 runs off simply 40 balls and helped South Africa put up 353/3 in simply 40 overs in a rain-curtailed match. Chasing that, Netherlands may solely muster 132/9 from their quota of 40 overs and misplaced the match by 221 runs.
Apart from Gibbs, the two different batsmen who’ve achieved the feat are Yuvraj Singh and Kieron Pollard. Both of them did the identical in T20Is towards England and Sri Lanka, respectively.
While Yuvraj infamously smashed Stuart Broad throughout the park in Durban throughout the World T20 in 2007, Pollard achieved the feat a number of days again of the bowling off Akila Dananjaya in Antigua.
However, in home cricket, the feat has been achieved by 5 different gamers — West Indies’ Sir Garfield Sobers (in 1968 towards Glamorgan), India’s Ravi Shastri (in 1985 towards Baroda), England’s Ross Whitely (in 2017 towards Yorkshire Vikings), Afghanistan’s Hazratullah Zazai (in 2018 towards Balkh Legends) and New Zealand’s Leo Carter (in 2020 towards Northern Knights).
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