From: vxc5@po.CWRU.Edu (Venkatesan Chakravarthy)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: SIXERS ( was Re: Pak-Aus ODI; Pak 195/5 in 47, Aus 150/1 in 37)
Date: 15 Dec 1992 04:32:52 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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In a previous article, vxc5@po.CWRU.Edu says:

>
>In a previous article, robert@latcs1.lat.oz.au (Robert Van Doorn) says:
>
>>>>>In Pak innings, Akram hit 2 sixes in 36 off 15 balls. One was a straight hit
>>>>>off McDermott - a very long distance to the boundary. Rod Marsh called it
>>>>>one of the finest hits he's seen at Adelaide.
>>>>
>>>
>>>I saw a clip of Yashpal Sharma hitting Len Pascoe for a straight six at Adelaide
>>>on the 80-81 tour. That was a shot which had pure timing written on it. The big
>
>
	Speaking of low sixes and Yashpal Sharma, he has hit quite a few. I do
not recall specific years and specific o/d series. Against England in the 1983
world cup he hit a parallel six (the commentator's description). He also hit
a six of the backfoot over the bowler's head(Botham) in some other o/d.

	As far as the most savage sixes hit I think the Windies take the cake.
Greenidge, Lloyd and Richards have hit sixes clean out of the ball park and 
way beyond. When Richards hit that fastest century against England in terms of
number of balls, Gavaskar joked about it saying it would also have been the 
fastest in terms of time but for the fact that the balls had to be retrieved 
from outside the arena which took an awful lot of time. Many people have hit 
out of the ball park, but only some have the ability to take it farther.

	In a o/d between Pak and WI Miandad and Imran hit some thing like 43
runs in the last two overs bowled by Marshall and Garner. Miandad hit 5 
consecutive 4s of Marshall and then Imran hit Garner for 23 or more runs which
included 2 or 3 terrific sixes. Imagine hitting the most parsimonious bowler
for three sixes in the final over. I think the WI won the match though.

	Regarding towering sixes the Indians had a few who were good at this.
Karsan Ghavri hit 3 towering sixes against the turn against Australia or 
England in Bombay in a test series. He also got his highest test score then.
Those sixers were described as neat clean sixers by Salim Durrani who was a
an excellent exponent of the art of hitting sixes. Sandip Patil has hit a few
big sixes. He once hit 26 sixes in a club match before he was even a Ranji
Player. When he told his father about this the latter commented that if you
can see the ball so well you should be getting bigger scores. It was good 
advice and I am glad he heeded the advice otherwise we may not have witnessed
one of the most exciting batsmen.

	For sheer timing Vishwanath yes Vishy, I liked those off driven sixes 
of pace bowlers which sailed over the boundary line only because of the timing.
It is a great pity he never used to hit many. I can recall only two instances.
If lesser mortals attempted the same effortless swing it would be a simple pop 
to midoff. There is also a story about Sobers going for a front drive against a
quickie and then changed his mind to just lift it over extra cover for a six.
That is cricketing genius.

	If some one can throw some light regarding the time and specific 
series in which some of the incidence I described occurred it will be great. 
Thanks.

	A faithful student of Cricket


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