6 sixes

[Ashuin M Naik]

I have a friend who says Sandeep Patil(India) hit six 6's off 1 over from
Bob Willis(England). I disagree

Who is correct.

He also wants to know who else has hit 6 sixes in an over besides Sobers
and Shastri.

Thanks.

Incidentally he looks like Sandeep!!!!!!!!!

and Shastri come to think about it !!!

ciao

[Anil Annadata]

You know that you are correct. Patil hit 6 4's in that over.

Besides Sobers and shastri, it was chandrasekhar who hit 6 sixer's in an over
in an inter school match in Karnataka

[Md Ali Noor Siddique]

In article <CD60v...@brunel.ac.uk> dc9...@brunel.ac.uk (Ashuin M Naik) writes:

>I have a friend who says Sandeep Patil(India) hit six 6's off 1 over from
>Bob Willis(England). I disagree
>
>
>Who is correct.

Sandeep Patil did hit 6 4's(not 6's) in one over(7 balls with a wide) off
Bob Willis in a test match in England. That is the test record of hitting 24
runs in an over along with Kapil who made 24 runs off Eddie Hemmings with 4 6's.

>
>He also wants to know who else has hit 6 sixes in an over besides Sobers
>and Shastri.

Apart from Sobers and Shastri no one has the record of hitting 6 6's in an
over in a first class match.

>
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>
>Incidentally he looks like Sandeep!!!!!!!!!
>
>and Shastri come to think about it !!!
>
>ciao
>

Taheer
Dept. of CS
New Mexico Tech.

[Rajesh Adusumalli]

besides shastri and sobers,manzoor elahi of pakistan too hit 6 sixers in an over from kirti azad of india in a friendly match.
rajesh

[Shyam]

In article <CD60v...@brunel.ac.uk> dc9...@brunel.ac.uk (Ashuin M Naik) writes:

>I have a friend who says Sandeep Patil(India) hit six 6's off 1 over from
>Bob Willis(England). I disagree
>
>

Sandeep didnot hit sixers, he hit 6 fours in a over of 7 balls,

one ball being a nobe.

He hit 4 hours from the same bowler in the 1983 world cup semifinal also

>Who is correct.
>
>He also wants to know who else has hit 6 sixes in an over besides Sobers
>and Shastri.
>
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>
>Incidentally he looks like Sandeep!!!!!!!!!
>
>and Shastri come to think about it !!!
>
>ciao
>

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[J R Partington]

It's a long time since I was any good as a bowler, but surely
it takes a certain incompetence on the bowler's part to have
six sixes hit off you, even by the likes of Sobers. Surely
there are some sorts of ball which one cannot hit into
the air, e.g. ones that pitch short and roll along the ground.
Fair enough, Sobers would hit four, but not six...

JRP

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[Muhunthan Sivapragasam]

Sobers and Shastri scored 6 sixers in a six ball over. Zimbabwe born(?)
Brian Davison hit 6 sixers and a 3 (39 runs) in a seven ball over, which
included a no ball, in a county game 5-6 years back.

[Rahul Indrayan]

Sandeep Patil hit 6 4s in one over of bob willis and not 6 6s!

[Geoff Bethell]

>| Dr Jonathan R. Partington writes:
>
>It's a long time since I was any good as a bowler, but surely
>it takes a certain incompetence on the bowler's part to have
>six sixes hit off you, even by the likes of Sobers. Surely
>there are some sorts of ball which one cannot hit into
>the air, e.g. ones that pitch short and roll along the ground.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Oh my God. I hope this doesn't start something. Just remember:
It happened ages ago and it's dead and buried.

Cheers, Geoff

[DJ]

In article <CD8A0...@unccsun.uncc.edu> radu...@uncc.edu writes:
>besides shastri and sobers,manzoor elahi of pakistan too hit 6 sixers in an over from kirti azad of india in a friendly match.
>rajesh
>
>

IS THAT SO?!

Then, let me divulge this little secret about MY cricketing records...

I hit six sixers in an over twice actually...

First in school in a "friendly" match with another... I even remember the name
of the bowler (becos it was a feat that forced me do so)... Sandeep was his
name...

And the second off... Imran a couple of years ago..

DJ :-)

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[Anil Annadata]

In article <27056f$7...@hsc.usc.edu> dhr...@hsc.usc.edu (DJ) writes:
>In article <CD8A0...@unccsun.uncc.edu> radu...@uncc.edu writes:
>>besides shastri and sobers,manzoor elahi of pakistan too hit 6 sixers in an over from kirti azad of india in a friendly match.
>>rajesh
>>
>>
>
>IS THAT SO?!
>
>Then, let me divulge this little secret about MY cricketing records...
>
>I hit six sixers in an over twice actually...
>
>First in school in a "friendly" match with another... I even remember the name
>of the bowler (becos it was a feat that forced me do so)... Sandeep was his
>name...
>
>
>
>
>And the second off... Imran a couple of years ago..
>

I read this in the news. Well, I think you forgot to mention
about the third instance.
You remember that day in feroz shah kotla when you hit Larwood
for 8 sixer's

[Ashuin M Naik]

Rajesh Adusumalli (radu...@uncc.edu) wrote:
: besides shastri and sobers,manzoor elahi of pakistan too hit 6 sixers in an over from kirti azad of india in a friendly match.
: rajesh

I was at the match where Manzoor Elahi hit 6 sixers off Azad. The match was played on a carpet at the Hawthorns football stadium. It had pissed down with rain
so the ball just about managed to reach the other end. Anybody who knows anything about football grounds know they are not very wide ,so it was just a case of
lifting the ball off the ground to get it over the boundary.

Incidentally the crowd was segregated into Pakistan / India ends. Is this the
first case of crowd segregation in a cricket match ?

[J R Partington]

What are you talking about? Actually even a decent yorker must
be well-nigh impossible to hit for six. Anyone disagree?

[sha...@charlie.usd.edu]

To be perfectly honest, bowling a decent yorker is not very easy especially
if your bowling is getting dismantled. Malcolm Nash must have tried his
best but Sobers was a phenomenon. Smashing sixes off attempted yorkers must be
child's play for the great man. Remember Viv Richards doing it off Chris
Old's leg stump yorker in the 1979 World Cup final. Now Old was probably
a much better bowler than Nash, and the Lords ground is much bigger than the
ground where Sobers made history.

Shariq

[Vishal Misra]

>To be perfectly honest, bowling a decent yorker is not very easy especially
>if your bowling is getting dismantled. Malcolm Nash must have tried his
>best but Sobers was a phenomenon. Smashing sixes off attempted yorkers must be

Malcolm Nash was a spinner till that over. For some "strange" reasons
he switched to being a medium pacer..
Vishal

[Gautham N]

If you are talking of the last ball six, I think the bowler was Hendricks
and not Chris old...
Also I feel, it was an attempted yorker and it was almost a full toss on
the off-middle which was swung for a six...

- gautham -

[dg...@wvnvms.wvnet.edu]

>>be well-nigh impossible to hit for six. Anyone disagree?
>>JRP
>>
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>>| Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. |
>
> To be perfectly honest, bowling a decent yorker is not very easy especially
> if your bowling is getting dismantled. Malcolm Nash must have tried his
> best but Sobers was a phenomenon. Smashing sixes off attempted yorkers must be
> child's play for the great man. Remember Viv Richards doing it off Chris
> Old's leg stump yorker in the 1979 World Cup final. Now Old was probably
> a much better bowler than Nash, and the Lords ground is much bigger than the
> ground where Sobers made history.
>
> Shariq

YASHPAL SHARMA OF INDIA HIT A SIX TO BOB WILLIS OF ENGLAND ON A YORKER IN

SEMI FINAL IN WORLD CUP 1983. INDIA WON THAT MATCH WITH 5 OVERS TO SPARE.

[Jawad Ali]

In article <CDAKw...@sunfish.usd.edu>, <sha...@charlie.usd.edu> wrote:
>child's play for the great man. Remember Viv Richards doing it off Chris
>Old's leg stump yorker in the 1979 World Cup final. Now Old was probably

Gavaskar has a tape out about batting in which he shows a clip
of this incredible shot. Only Viv!

I rented the tape from an Indian store in the SF Bay area a few
years ago. Sorry, no direct refrences.

j n a

[Tansen Varghese]

In article <1993Sep13....@gps.leeds.ac.uk> pmt...@gps.leeds.ac.uk (J R Partington) writes:
> What are you talking about? Actually even a decent yorker must
>be well-nigh impossible to hit for six. Anyone disagree?
>JRP

As Viv Richards proved, if you're expecting an yorker and you get one
you can hit it for a six by converting it into a fulltoss (going
forward) and hitting it. And I read sometime back that Imran used to
hit sixes off Curtley Ambrose in the World Series Cup some years ago
off yorkers or near-yorkers (which, I admit, are much easier to
hit) and he did hit three sixes off Joel Garner in the last over of
a match once and Garner was well known for his yorkers. The problem
is that after the batsman has converted the yorker and hit it nobody
will recognize it as an yorker.

Tanny

[Neeran M. Karnik]

siv...@acsu.buffalo.edu (Muhunthan Sivapragasam) writes:

>Brian Davison hit 6 sixers and a 3 (39 runs) in a seven ball over, which
>included a no ball, in a county game 5-6 years back.

This probably was a non-first-class game, since the record books
don't seem to have anyone apart from Shastri and Sobers listed.

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[sha...@charlie.usd.edu]

Are you sure Vishal? From what I read and heard, Malcolm Nash of Glamorgan was
a medium pacer all his life.

Shariq

[Geoff Bethell]

>>>the air, e.g. ones that pitch short and roll along the ground.
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Oh my God. I hope this doesn't start something. Just remember:
>> It happened ages ago and it's dead and buried.
>>
>>Cheers, Geoff
>

>JRP:

> What are you talking about? Actually even a decent yorker must
>be well-nigh impossible to hit for six. Anyone disagree?
>

I'm glad you don't know. It's a bit of antipodean infighting.

Cheers, Geoff

[mu]

vmi...@spock.ecs.umass.edu writes:
[ Sobers hits 6 sixes off Malcolm Nash ]

>Malcolm Nash was a spinner till that over. For some "strange" reasons
>he switched to being a medium pacer.

sha...@charlie.usd.edu responds:

>Are you sure Vishal? From what I read and heard, Malcolm Nash of Glamorgan was
>a medium pacer all his life.

This is the way I heard it too. Malcolm Nash was a left-handed
medium-pacer who happened to be bowling spinners when the event
occurred. After being carted five times to the boundary, in
desperation he switched to being a medium pacer again.

The last ball of the over was short, and he was promptly tonked
again. :-)

Murari Venkataraman
ven...@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu