In the ongoing Pondicherry T10 tournament, 15-year-old Krishna Pandey emulated the likes of Yuvraj Singh, Ravi Shastri and Kieron Pollard when he hit six sixes in an over. In the Patriots-Royals game, the latter went after 158, and in the sixth over of the game, Pandey stalled. Pandey took on Nitesh Kumar and trotted five sixes before the bowler took a walk. However, the extra delivery was also a maximum, albeit a setback.
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Pandey was eventually fired for 83 of 19 deliveries in the penultimate remaining and his team was four runs behind the Patriots total.
Yuvraj Singh naturally took the cricketing world by storm when he hit six sixes on a Stuart Broad in the 2007 T20 World Cup, which India went on to win.
The most recent case in international cricket of a batter hitting six max per miss was when Kieron Pollard faced Sri Lankan Akila Dananjaya in a T20I in March 2021.
Coincidentally, Dananjaya had taken a hat-trick earlier in the same match.
Before Pollard and Yuvraj, Herschelle Gibbs was the first batsman to hit six sixes in an over in international cricket.
Gibbs had accomplished the feat in 2007 in a 50-over World Cup match against the Netherlands.
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West Indian legend Sir Garfield Sobers was the first cricketer to ever achieve this feat, playing for Nottinghamshire against Glamorgan in the County Championship in 1968.
Former Indian all-rounder and head coach Ravi Shastri then hit 36 runs to one over for Mumbai (then Bombay) against Baroda.
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