Kieron Pollard is one of the greatest players in limited-overs cricket. That has hardly ever been in doubt. But the West Indies star made s...
Kieron Pollard is one of the greatest players in limited-overs cricket. That has hardly ever been in doubt. But the West Indies star made sure his name will be etched in a group that will unlikely be forgotten, for a feat that arguably every human being who has ever held a cricket bat in hand dreams about: hitting six sixes in an over.
The West Indies captain joined South Africa’s Herschelle Gibbs (March 2007, ICC Men’s ODI World Cup against Netherlands) and India’s Yuvraj Singh (September 2007, ICC Men’s World T20 against England) as the only men to have achieved the feat in international cricket when he teed off against Sri Lanka in the first T20I on Thursday.
Watch: Sensational Kieron Pollard hits six sixes in an over off hat-trick man Akila Dananjaya
The unfortunate bowler at the receiving end was Akila Dananjaya. It is a cruel twist of fate because until that point, he was having a night to remember. In just his previous over, the Sri Lankan spinner had claimed a hat-trick of wickets.
Pollard was eventually out for 38 off 11 balls as the West Indies chased 132 to win at the Coolidge Cricket Ground, reaching their target in the 14th over...
