Commonwealth Bank Bushrangers allrounder Marcus Stoinis has hit six sixes, one of the cricket arrest feats, in an over during a none-sanctioned match in Brisbane on Wednesday.
Playing for the National Performance Squad in a 50-over match against the National Indigenous Squad at Allan Border Field, Stoinis launched part-time medium-pacer Brendan Smith for six sixes in an over on his way to 121 from 73 balls.
Smith, captain of the New South Wales Under 17s, who took 2 for 17 in a practice match against the Southern Stars on Saturday, also sent down a wide meaning his one over o the match went for 37 runs.
Stoinis, who played for IPL franchise Delhi Daredevils, launched the assault in the 37th over with the National Performance Squad was struggling at 5 for 165.
Stoinis launched the assault in the 37th over with the NPS in a spot of bother at 5-165.
The first ball from Smith was a wide before Stoinis smacked six consecutive maximums at the sizeable AB Field, which is often used for first-class cricket.
There have been just four recorded instances of a cricketer hitting six sixes in an over at first-class level or higher.
The first cricketer to achieve the feat is Sir Garfield Sobers, hitting Glamorgan’s Malcom Nash for six sixes. The West Indian was playing for Nottinghamshire in Swansea in 1968.
It took 17 years before the Sobers’s record was matched, with Bombay’s Ravi Shastri hitting left-arm spinner Tilak Raj for six sixes in a Ranji Trophy match against Baroda in 1985.
South Africa’s Herschelle Gibbs became the first player to achieve the feat in an international match, smashing Netherlands spinner Daan van Bunge for six sixes at the 2007 World Cup, before India’s Yuvraj Singh matched Gibbs with 36 off an over bowled by England’s Stuart Broad at the 2007 World Twenty20 in Durban.
Stoinis’s feat today is unlikely to count towards the official record books, however, as the game is a non-sanctioned practice match.
Adelaide Strikers’ West Indian star Kieron Pollard also achieved the feat in a non-sanctioned match late last year.