This is how The Indian Express covered the left-hander’s epic feat.
This is how The Indian Express covered the left-hander’s epic feat.

Yuvraj Singh’s sensational feat of six sixes in an over in the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 championship made headlines in Indian newspapers and this is how The Indian Express covered the left-hander’s epic feat.

Against England in Durban, Yuvraj etched his name to the record books to score the fastest fifty in the history of limited-overs cricket. He joined the elite club of three other batsmen, who too have hit six sixes in an over: Garry Sobers against Malcolm Nash (Nottinghamshire vs Glamorgan in 1968), Ravi Shastri against Tilak Raj (Mumbai vs Baroda in 1985) and Herschelle Gibbs against Netherlands’ Dan Van Bunge in the World Cup earlier in 2007.

Yuvraj walked into bat in the 17th over, when India were 155 for three. In the 18th over, he got into an altercation with England’s star all-rounder Andrew Flintoff. This charged up the Yuvraj and he released his anger in the next over.

The left-hander from Punjab blitzed his way to a record feat in the 19th over, bowled by Broad. It was massacre.

The first ball of the over was swung over midwicket for a huge six. The next was flicked sweetly into the crowd beyond backward square-leg. Broad, now bowled the third ball outside off stump, but the result was same. The difference was the change in ball’s route; this time it sailed over extra-cover. Broad, now came round the wicket and Yuvraj slashed over backward point this time. Four sixes off four balls. A perplexed Broad bowled the fifth which Yuvraj dealt it going on one knee to hoist it over mid-wicket.

The frenzy crowd cheered for the ultimate moment. Yuvraj did not let them down. He heaved cleanly over mid-wicket for his sixth six of the over and, in the process, scored the quickest fifty in Twenty20 Internationals — off 12 balls.

Those six balls remains one of the greatest moments in Yuvraj’s fabulous cricketing career.