Thisara Perera entered his🐈 name into the record books on Sunday (March 28) as he became the first Sri Lankan player to smash six sixes in an over.
The 31-year-old achieved the feat during a Group A game of the Major Clubs Limited Over Tournamen🍌t between Sri Lanka Army Sports Club and Bloomfield Cricket & Athletic Club.
In the truncated to 41-overs-a-side match, the Sri Lanka Army Sports Club captain Perera walked in to bat at No. 5 with 20 balls remaining in their innings. The all-rounder then hit Dilhan Cooray for s🐲ix sixes in an over en route to second-fastest half-century in List A cricket. The off-spinner 💦Cooray ended up conceding 73 runs in four overs.
The match was, however, declared a no result with rain playing spoilsport. Bloomfield were struggling at 73/6 after 17 ov▨ers in their chase of 319.
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Thisara perera 🍨hit 6 sixes in one over 😍😍😍😍😍
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Perera is the second cricketer, after West Indies limited-overs captain Kieron Pollard, to record this feat in 2021. Pollard achieved the feat just three weeks prior to Perera when he hit Sri Lanka leg-spinner Akila Dhananjaya for six sixes in a T20 International in Antigua.
Overall, Perera is only the ninth player to smash six sixes in an over and the sixth to do so in domestic cricket. Only three players – Herschelle Gibbs, Yuvraj Singh and Pollard – have achieved the feat in international cricket.
Sir Garfield Sobers (1968) was the first-ever player to hit six sixes in an over. Team India’s current head coach Ravi Shastri (1985), was the next to do it.
In 1968, Sir Garfield Sobers 𝄹became the first man to hit six sixes in an over in first-class crick𒁃et 🙌
He achieved🐭 the feat while playing in the English County Championship for Nottinghamshire against Glamorgan in Swans𝐆ea 💥 💥 💥
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