Worcestershire's Ross Whiteley joined a select group of batsmen who've performed the feat of hitting six sixes in an over. He did so in an English County Twenty20 match at Headingley on Sunday. The left-hander achieved this off the bowling of Yorkshire left-arm spinner Karl Carver during the 16th over of Worcestershire's innings. But he fell for 65 off 26 balls as Worcestershire finished on 196 for seven and lost the match by 37 runs. The contest almost included another sterling batting performance that came from Yorkshire's David Willey, the England all-rounder, who made 118 that included 34 runs off one over from Australian pacer John Hastings.
West Indies great Gary Sobers was the first batsman to hit six sixes in an over in first-class cricket when, playing for Nottinghamshire, he performed the feat against Glamorgan's Malcolm Nash in a County Championship match at Swansea in 1968. Since then Ravi Shastri, South Africa's Herschelle Gibbs and Yuvraj Singh have all matched that achievement in either first-class, one-day or Twenty20 cricket. In 2013, Lancashire batsman Jordan Clark struck six sixes in an over during a match against arch-rivals Yorkshire at Scarborough.
