Deependra Singh Airi: Nepal's explosive batsman Deependra Singh Airi created history on Saturday. He hit a record 6 sixes in 6 balls in the ACC Men's T20 International Premier League Cup against Qatar. He became the third batsman in the world to achieve this feat in T20 International. Before him, India's Yuvraj Singh and West Indies' Pollard had done this.
Earlier, Yuvraj Singh had hit six sixes in the T20 World Cup.
Earlier, in the 2007 T20 World Cup, Yuvraj Singh had hit six sixes in six balls in one over of the England fast bowler. Windies' Pollard hit six sixes off Akila Dhananjay in the first T20 match of the series against visiting Sri Lanka. Herschelle Gibbs of South Africa and Jaskaran Malhotra of America achieved such feat in ODI cricket.
Deependra Singh broke Yuvraj's record of fastest half-century
Deependra scored unbeaten 64 runs in 21 balls with the help of 7 sixes and three fours. With this, Nepal scored 210 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs. Qatar's team could only score 178 runs for 9 wickets and lost by 32 runs. Yuvraj Singh scored the fastest fifty in T20 International cricket with a half-century in 12 balls against England in the T20 World Cup 2007, although it was Deependra who broke Yuvi's record by scoring a half-century in 9 balls against Mongolia during the 19th Asian Games last year. Had broken.