India batsman Ruturaj Gaikwad on Monday smashed an unprecedented seven successive sixes in one over of a 50-overs home match – courtesy of a no-ball.
Gaikwad, who has performed one ODI and 9 Twenty20 matches for India, hammered 42 runs for Maharashtra in a seven-delivery over towards Uttar Pradesh.
The quarter-final of the Vijay Hazare Trophy — India’s inter-state 50-over competitors — befell on the world’s greatest cricket stadium, in Ahmedabad.
Gaikwad is the primary participant to hit seven sixes in one over in a List A class match.
Bizarre over
But Lee Germon of New Zealand holds the all-time List A record with eight sixes in a weird 77-run over of a number of deliberate wides and no-balls in a 1990 Shell Trophy match, when Wellington deliberately gave away runs to attempt to tempt Canterbury into recklessness.
Gaikwad, 25, completed unbeaten on 220 as his group made 330-5.
Left-arm spinner Shiva Singh was on the receiving finish of his six-hitting blitz in the forty ninth over.
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Gaikwad made his T20 worldwide debut final 12 months after a sterling efficiency as an attacking opener with Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League.
It is the second record by an Indian batsman in as many weeks, after Tamil Nadu’s N Jagadeesan smashed 277 towards Arunachal Pradesh, the best ever rating in the 50-over format, surpassing the 268 of England’s Alistair Brown towards Glamorgan in 2002.
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