vamshi krishna
Even though the match played between Andhra and Railways in the Colonel CK Naidu Trophy ended in a draw, the match saw a stormy innings from the bat of Andhra team’s opening batsman Vamshi Krishna in which he hit six sixes in 6 consecutive balls. With this feat, he has included himself in an elite list of Indian batsmen. Vamshi’s bat saw an explosive innings of 110 runs in just 64 balls in this match.
Krishna hit a total of 10 sixes in his innings.
Vamshi Krishna hit a total of 10 sixes and 9 fours during his innings of 110 runs, in which he hit 6 sixes in the over of Railways team’s leg spinner Damandeep Singh. In that over, Vamshi hit the first six while playing a slog sweep shot, after which he hit the second six straight towards the front. Vamshi hit the third six towards mid-wicket. The fourth ball of the over, which was towards the leg stump, was also hit by Vamshi for a six, while on the fifth ball, Vamshi hit a six while playing a shot towards deep square leg, while the last ball of the over was shot by Vamshi towards mid-wicket. Delivered for a six with play on. However, despite this brilliant innings of Vamshi Krishna, Andhra team was limited to 378 runs in this match. Earlier, a brilliant performance was also seen from the Railways side in the match, in which they made a big score of 865 runs.
Shastri did this feat in Ranji and Yuvraj did this feat in T20 World Cup.
With 6 consecutive sixes in an over, Vamshi Krishna has now joined a special list in Indian cricket. Before him, in 1985, Ravi Shastri, playing for Bombay in the Ranji Trophy, had hit six sixes in an over in the match against Baroda. Exactly 32 years later, Yuvraj Singh achieved this feat when he came to bat against England in the 2007 T20 World Cup, in which he hit 6 sixes in one over of Stuart Broad.
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