6 sixes in an over: Two sweeps, all on leg-side; Andhra boy join Shastri, Yuvraj | Cricket News
Vamshhi Krrishna of Andhra Pradesh channeled his inner Yuvraj Singh when he blasted Railways spinner Damandeep Singh for 6 sixes in an over on his way to a quickfire 64-ball 110 in the Col C K Nayudu Trophy in Kadapa.The feat in question happened on Sunday in Andhra’s first innings with Krrishna hitting 10 sixes and 9 boundaries to get to his 110. His blering knock helped Andhra reach 378 while Railways declared their first innings at a mammoth 865/9.
Ansh Yadav and Ravi Singh scored doubles centuries while Anchit Yadav scored a ton as Railways posted the huge first innings total.
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Vamshhi Krrishna of Andhra hit 6 sixes in an over off Railways spinner Damandeep Singh on his way to a blering 64-ball 110 in the Col C K Nayudu Trophy in Kadapa.
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In order to hit the sixes, Krrishna pulled out the slog sweep to get a maximum off the first ball. Next, he smashed the second delivery clean over the bowler’s head and over the boundary. The third ball also met the same fate as it was cleanly dispatched over the midwicket boundary for another six.
The fourth ball was also slammed for a maximum in a nonchalant manner while the fifth was smoked over the over deep square leg boundary. In the last ball, Krishna played off his back foot and pulled it over mid-wicket.
However, in the Indian domestic circuit, this feat might remind fans of former India coach Ravi Shastri’s heroics in a Ranji Trophy match against Baroda in 1985. Shastri who had reached to his century in no time pummeled part time spinner Tilak Raj for six sixes off an over.
“You know till that 4th six was hit in that game against Baroda, you know I wasn’t even thinking six 6s. The moment the 5th one was hit, which was probably the biggest of the lot because it went off the ground at the Wankhede. Then I saw all my teammates along the side screen and then I realized that there is an opportunity to hit 6 sixes,” Shastri had elaborated in a chat with CRED back in 2022, reminiscing his six sixes.
“I knew very clearly that this guy’s head is muddled now. I am favorite here to get it, all I have to do is guess right. So I anticipated moving a little bit down the leg side thinking “create a space here, where if he bowls here I can smash him down the ground. if he bowls here, he goes here. I guessed wrong actually because when I went here, he went wide, but because of my height I could reach out and flat bat it to the side screen for six,” he added.
It wasn’t just Shastri though, Sir Garfield Sobers and Yuvraj Singh, who did the feat in international cricket had also targetted the leg side more than the off. In Krrishna’s case, Damandeep Singh had pitched all his deliveries down the middle and leg stump – at a consent length – making it an obvious choice for the right-hander to sweep/slog-sweep him on most instances.
It isn’t a first instance of a batter nailing six sixes in Indian domestic cricket in recent times. In 2022, Ruturaj Gaikwad’s would go one step further in the Vijay Hazare Trophy quarterfinals where he had smacked 7 sixes off an over.
Gaikwad’s explosive hitting occurred in the 49th over of Maharshatra’s batting innings when he took the attack to the Uttar Pradesh left-arm spinner Shiva Singh and scored 43 runs off the over.
