• Indian batsman hits seven sixes in one over

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    Ruturaj Gaikwad on Monday smashed an unprecedented seven successive sixes in one over of a 50-overs domestic match – courtesy of a no-ball.

    Gaikwad, who has played one ODI and nine T20Is for India, hammered 42 runs for Maharashtra in a seven-delivery over against Uttar Pradesh.

    The quarter-final of the Vijay Hazare Trophy – India’s inter-state 50-over competition – took place at the world’s biggest cricket stadium, in Ahmedabad.

    Gaikwad is the first player to hit seven sixes in one over in a List A category match.

    But Lee Germon of New Zealand holds the all-time List A record with eight sixes in a bizarre 77-run over of multiple deliberate wides and no-balls in a 1990 Shell Trophy match, when Wellington intentionally gave away runs to try to tempt Canterbury into recklessness.

    Gaikwad (25) finished unbeaten on 220 as his team made 330-5.

    Left-arm spinner Shiva Singh was on the receiving end of his six-hitting blitz in the 49th over.

    Gaikwad made his T20I debut last year after a sterling performance as an attacking opener with the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL.

    It is the second record by an Indian batsman in as many weeks, after Tamil Nadu’s N Jagadeesan smashed 277 against Arunachal Pradesh, the highest-ever score in the 50-over format, surpassing the 268 of England’s Alistair Brown against Glamorgan in 2002.

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