Six fours in an over?
jin...@cc.gatech.edu
>It is fairly well known that some players have hit six sixes in
>an over (Ravi Shastri and Gary Sobers spring to mind) but has
>anyone ever hit six fours in an over?
Sandeep Patil hit Bob Willis for six 4s in a seven-ball over to go from
80 to 104 in a Test in England (unsure of date).
Shavinder S Multani
: It is fairly well known that some players have hit six sixes in
: an over (Ravi Shastri and Gary Sobers spring to mind) but has
: anyone ever hit six fours in an over?
Yes. Sandip Patil (India) v/s England (a test match ofcourse).
The bowler was Bob Willis. I think he bowled a no ball too.
So it was really 6 fours off 7 balls.
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: It is fairly well known that some players have hit six sixes in
: an over (Ravi Shastri and Gary Sobers spring to mind) but has
: anyone ever hit six fours in an over?
I beleive Sandeep Patil did it off Bob Willis a decade or so ago...
JK
: If they have (and I wouldn't be surprised if they had!), what is
: the longest sequence of hitting fours?
: Best Wishes,
: Stevie W.
Venkatesh Sridharan
: It is fairly well known that some players have hit six sixes in
: an over (Ravi Shastri and Gary Sobers spring to mind) but has
: anyone ever hit six fours in an over?
: If they have (and I wouldn't be surprised if they had!), what is
: the longest sequence of hitting fours?
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Sandeep Patil hit Bob Willis for six fours in an over that included a
no-ball. This was at Old Trafford in 1982. (This feat of Patil's, in his
own words, endeared him greatly to Viv Richards :-). Also, in another test
in the early 1980s, Andy Roberts hit Ian Botham for 24 runs in a (six ball)
over, but that included two sixes, so that's a little different...
: Stevie W.
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Steve Wyeth
an over (Ravi Shastri and Gary Sobers spring to mind) but has
anyone ever hit six fours in an over?
If they have (and I wouldn't be surprised if they had!), what is
the longest sequence of hitting fours?
Best Wishes,
Stevie W.
John Hall
<ste...@dougal.logica.co.uk> writes
>It is fairly well known that some players have hit six sixes in
>an over (Ravi Shastri and Gary Sobers spring to mind) but has
>anyone ever hit six fours in an over?
Since the much harder 6x6 has been done twice, I'd be surprised if this
hasn't been done several dozen times. None of my reference books deals
with this feat, though, so I can't be sure.
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: Also, in another test
: over, but that included two sixes, so that's a little different...
Reading this I recalled Kapil hitting Emburey (not sure of bowler,
but he was English spinner) for four consecutive 6's of the last
4 balls of the over. The beauty of that was that India needed
24 runs to avoid follow on and India were 9 down. Incidentally,
the last man was out on the very next ball he faced.
As a matter of fact, I think 24 is the highest runs by any individual
in an over in Tests. The maximum runs in an over are 26 (I think).
Anyone with more info ?
S.Jagadish
> The bowler was Bob Willis. I think he bowled a no ball too.
> So it was really 6 fours off 7 balls.
If I remember right, he did it in a ODI too ! Maybe it was off another bowler,
John Snow ? I remember seeing it in a Sunil Gavaskar Presents program
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|> Reading this I recalled Kapil hitting Emburey (not sure of bowler,
|> but he was English spinner) for four consecutive 6's of the last
|> 4 balls of the over.
I think it was Phil Edmonds. But I am not sure.
Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman
Vitay Kodagali
>In article <stevew.45...@dougal.logica.co.uk> ste...@dougal.logica.co.uk (Steve Wyeth) writes:
>>It is fairly well known that some players have hit six sixes in
>>an over (Ravi Shastri and Gary Sobers spring to mind) but has
>>anyone ever hit six fours in an over?
>
>that over had one no ball.
>
>I remember one Maharashtra batsman (Riyaz or something like that) hit
>eight fours on successive balls.
is it Riaz Poonawala? He used to play for Maharashtra, now is a member of
UAE team (he was also once a researve in the Indian One day team)
Bye
Dr Vijay Kodagali,
Bremerhaven Germany
[a]
>It is fairly well known that some players have hit six sixes in
>an over (Ravi Shastri and Gary Sobers spring to mind) but has
>anyone ever hit six fours in an over?
Sandeep Patil hit 6 fours in one Bob Willis over in a test match. However
that over had one no ball.
I remember one Maharashtra batsman (Riyaz or something like that) hit
eight fours on successive balls.
>
Charles Levy
> [A] wrote:
>>In article <stevew.45...@dougal.logica.co.uk> ste...@dougal.logica.co.uk (Steve Wyeth) writes:
>>>It is fairly well known that some players have hit six sixes in
>>>an over (Ravi Shastri and Gary Sobers spring to mind) but has
>>>anyone ever hit six fours in an over?
>>
>>Sandeep Patil hit 6 fours in one Bob Willis over in a test match. However
>>that over had one no ball.
>>
>>I remember one Maharashtra batsman (Riyaz or something like that) hit
>>eight fours on successive balls.
> UAE team (he was also once a researve in the Indian One day team)
> Bye
> Dr Vijay Kodagali,
> Bremerhaven Germany
>>
>>
>>>
>>>the longest sequence of hitting fours?
>>>
>>>Best Wishes,
>>>
>>>Stevie W.
>
This thread about most 6s and most 4s in an over brings to mind the story
Len Hutton once told about Hedley Verity: Jock Cameron hit him for four
sixes and two fours in an over during a game at Sheffield in 1935. At the
end of the over, Arthur Wood, the Yorkshire wicket keeper said to Verity:
"You got him in two minds that over, Hedley - he didn't know whether to
hit you for four or six!"
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John Hall
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Eddie Hemmings was the only spinner England played in this match, so it
must have been him.
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ARUN KUMAR KAUSHIK
also well known that Kapil Dev hit 4 consecutive sixes of Eddie Hemmings
when India tried to avoid a follow on.
Kaushik
On Mon, 28 Aug 1995, Steve Wyeth wrote:
> It is fairly well known that some players have hit six sixes in
> an over (Ravi Shastri and Gary Sobers spring to mind) but has
> anyone ever hit six fours in an over?
>
Anand Kannan
: > Yes. Sandip Patil (India) v/s England (a test match ofcourse).
: > The bowler was Bob Willis. I think he bowled a no ball too.
: > So it was really 6 fours off 7 balls.
He reached the century during that over. Must take some guts to
go after the bowling like this when you are in the 90s.
: If I remember right, he did it in a ODI too ! Maybe it was off
another bowler,
: John Snow ? I remember seeing it in a Sunil Gavaskar Presents program
Was it Jalaluddin, the Pakisthani medium pacer? I do remember Patil
belting him once in Pakisthan, but can't be sure if it was six fours.
John Snow couldn't have played at the same time as Patil. I remember Snow
being mentioned in SG Presents in the context of the collision he had
with Gavaskar. That must have been around 74-76.
Cheers,
Anand, Toronto.
Sadiq Yusuf
>In article <stevew.45...@dougal.logica.co.uk> ste...@dougal.logica.co.uk (Steve Wyeth) writes:
>>an over (Ravi Shastri and Gary Sobers spring to mind) but has
>>anyone ever hit six fours in an over?
>
>that over had one no ball.
>
>I remember one Maharashtra batsman (Riyaz or something like that) hit
>eight fours on successive balls.
>
Gotta have been Riaz Poonawala - very attacking right-handed
opening batsman from Maharashtra. He was once picked for the Indian ODI
16, but never played a game. Then migrated to UAE - you'll see him open
for them in the World Cup next season :-)
Sadiq [ who wonders what Riaz will do against India ] Yusuf
>>Best Wishes,
>>
>>Stevie W.
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Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman
|> S.Jagadish (sf91...@omega.ntu.ac.sg) wrote:
|>
|> Was it Jalaluddin, the Pakisthani medium pacer? I do remember Patil
|> belting him once in Pakisthan, but can't be sure if it was six fours.
|>
and was run out in the very next over thru a misunderstanding with Mohinder Amarnath.
_ Mohammad
|> Anand, Toronto.
John Hall
<ste...@dougal.logica.co.uk> writes
>In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.950830...@lilith.albany.edu> ARUN
>>Sandeep Patil hit 6 fours in an over of Bob Willis at Edgbaston. It is
>>also well known that Kapil Dev hit 4 consecutive sixes of Eddie Hemmings
>>when India tried to avoid a follow on.
>>Kaushik
>
>has never been done at Test or County level. Cricketers at county level
>looking to put themselves in the history books might like to try!!!
I don't think that you can conclude it has never been done at first-
class level, unless you have a more authoritative source than people's
reminiscences on rsc. Certainly a mix of 6 and 4 off every ball of a 6-
ball over is quite common. I make it on 13 occasions 32 or more has been
scored off a notionally 6-ball over (occasionally including a no-ball or
two), some of them with the bowler's compliance to hasten a declaration.
According to Wisden, there are 7 "pukka" instances of 32 or more (no no-
balls or collusion):
36 Gary Sobers 666666
36 Ravi Shastri 666666
34 Frank Hayes 646666
32 Ian Botham 466466
32 Paul Parker 466664
32 Ian Redpath (!) 666644
32 C.C.Smart 664664
Smart did his feat in 1932 - all the rest have been since 1968.
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Steve Wyeth
>Sandeep Patil hit 6 fours in an over of Bob Willis at Edgbaston. It is
>also well known that Kapil Dev hit 4 consecutive sixes of Eddie Hemmings
>when India tried to avoid a follow on.
>Kaushik
So, the upshot of this is that hitting six fours in an over (a proper over!)
has never been done at Test or County level. Cricketers at county level
looking to put themselves in the history books might like to try!!!
Best Wishes,
Stevie W.
S.Jagadish
> 36 Ravi Shastri 666666
You can add Vinod Kambli now !!
Mike Holmans
>> 36 Gary Sobers 666666
>> 36 Ravi Shastri 666666
>
>You can add Vinod Kambli now !!
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A bit cryptic, this. Please give us a bit more than that. Who for, off
whom, where, when, all the other bits. I like to know the other members
of my small & select club....
Malcolm Nash.
Aravind Bedekar
in any first-class game!!!
Aravind Bedekar.
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>In article <DE46D...@bfsec.bt.co.uk>, <[A]> wrote:
>>In article <stevew.45...@dougal.logica.co.uk> ste...@dougal.logica.co.uk (Steve Wyeth) writes:
>>>It is fairly well known that some players have hit six sixes in
>>>an over (Ravi Shastri and Gary Sobers spring to mind) but has
>>>anyone ever hit six fours in an over?
>>
>>Sandeep Patil hit 6 fours in one Bob Willis over in a test match. However
>>that over had one no ball.
>>
It probably was Riaz Poonawala. I don't exactly remember him hitting 8 fours
in succession, but I do remember him spanking Raju Kulkarni for a number of
boundaries during a Ranji Trophy game in the early eighties.....Tremendous
hitter. He has a very quick eye and timed the drives ever so perfectly.
Hope he does well for the Emirates....
SF786
Vs England in 1982.
Shrisha Rao
<Dilip...@gsb.uchicago.edu > wrote:
>It probably was Riaz Poonawala. I don't exactly remember him hitting 8 fours
>in succession, but I do remember him spanking Raju Kulkarni for a number of
>boundaries during a Ranji Trophy game in the early eighties.....Tremendous
>hitter. He has a very quick eye and timed the drives ever so perfectly.
>
>Hope he does well for the Emirates....
If I remember correctly, Sunil Gavaskar (surprise, surprise!) had eight
fours in two overs, off successive balls faced, in a Test match in the
late seventies. Maybe someone knows exactly which one?
Regards,
Shrisha Rao
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Vinod Kambli cracked six sixes in an over while playing for Prince Houmslow in
a Middlesex league match. The feat came against Finch Hampstead but he does
not remember the bowlers name. Kambli only remembers him being a leg spinner.
This is a record in the Middlesex league.
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Aslam Siddiqui
>>>> 36 Gary Sobers 666666
>>>> 36 Ravi Shastri 666666
>>>
>>>You can add Vinod Kambli now !!
>>>--
>>>
>>
>>A bit cryptic, this. Please give us a bit more than that. Who for, off
>>whom, where, when, all the other bits. I like to know the other members
>>of my small & select club....
>>
>>
>>Malcolm Nash.
>>
>Vinod Kambli cracked six sixes in an over while playing for Prince Houmslow in
>a Middlesex league match. The feat came against Finch Hampstead but he does
>not remember the bowlers name. Kambli only remembers him being a leg spinner.
>This is a record in the Middlesex league.
If we are going to bring in minor matches, how about Dudley Nourse? Playing
for a South African XI against the Military Police at Cairo in 1942, he hit
nine sixes off consecutive balls and 11 in 12 balls.
aslam
Sanjay
Shris...@launchpad.unc.edu (Shrisha Rao) wrote:
> If I remember correctly, Sunil Gavaskar (surprise, surprise!) had eight
> fours in two overs, off successive balls faced, in a Test match in the
> late seventies. Maybe someone knows exactly which one?
>
> Regards,
>
> Shrisha Rao
You are ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. I heard the commentary back then. This was in
the India-Pakistan Series of 1978 under Bedi. Gavaskar hit the last four
balls of one over, and the first four balls of the next over he faced for 4s.
(making it 8 consecutive 4s for him). This is definitely a fact. What I
vaguely remember is the bowlers and the test/innings: I think they were
Sarfraz and Sikandar Bakht. The test match was Karachi, 2nd innings.
This was mentioned as a WORLD RECORD in one of the articles on Gavaskar's
world records. For some reason, one never hears about this now-a-days.
Regarding the ** surprise **, it really isn't. While Gavaskar has been
known to play *slow* for most part of his career, he *chose* this
on his own.
SUNNY DAYS makes mention of the aggressive nature of Gavaskar's University
days cricket, when he used to make tall scores (200+ and 300+) very fast.
Also, if you look at the record, Gavaskar has both a test and ODI
century under 100 balls, the former being against the formidable WI attack.
Whenever he wanted, he did score comparable to the fastest scorers (Srikant).
There have been numerous innings when Sunny had 6s coming in the very first
over, and this was against bowlers such as Marshall, Imran, Hadlee, etc.
Can someone provide more details on Gavaskar's fast 40s/50s/80s/100s ?
Thanks,
Sanjay
David Wheeler
>> 36 Gary Sobers 666666
>> 36 Ravi Shastri 666666
>
>You can add Vinod Kambli now !!
Not if it's 1st Class records you're talking about, you can't; Kambli did
this in a local county league match. I don't believe that this is the
first time that anyone has hit six sixes in an over at that level, though
it probably hasn't happened very often.
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>In article <DEEFs...@midway.uchicago.edu>,
> <Dilip...@gsb.uchicago.edu > wrote:
>
>>It probably was Riaz Poonawala. I don't exactly remember him hitting 8 fours
>>in succession, but I do remember him spanking Raju Kulkarni for a number of
>>boundaries during a Ranji Trophy game in the early eighties.....Tremendous
>>hitter. He has a very quick eye and timed the drives ever so perfectly.
>>
>>Hope he does well for the Emirates....
>
>
>fours in two overs, off successive balls faced, in a Test match in the
>late seventies. Maybe someone knows exactly which one?
>
>Regards,
>
>Shrisha Rao
Hmm....I'm not too sure which innings you are referring to. One of the innings
in which gavaskar did cut loose was the Golden Jubilee test at the Wankhede
when he started carting Lever to all parts of the ground, including a couple
of really magnificent hits straight down the ground. Of course, that was the
famous Vishwanath-recall-Taylor test which India lost.
The other memorable Gavaskar run flurry was the WC game against NewZealand
in India when he carted Chatfield all over the ground.
On a related note, I'm trying to remember a Bombay-Saurashtra Ranji trophy
game at the Wankhede in which Sandeep Patil hit a hurricane hundred
including three hits outside the ground off Keshwala. Does anyone remember
which year it was???