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unusual facts about Sixes



1975 Cricket World Cup Final

In the final, The West Indies cricket team beat Australia by 17 runs, after an accomplished batting performance from West Indies captain Clive Lloyd (102 from 85 balls, 12 fours, 2 sixes).

1997–98 Coca-Cola Cup

Sachin Tendulkar won the man of the tournament award and an Opel Astra that went with the award apart from winning other awards for most sixes and fastest fifty whereas Damien Fleming and Ricky Ponting of Australia won the best bowler and best fielder awards respectively.

2003 Cricket World Cup Final

Captain Ricky Ponting (140 from 121 balls, 4 fours, 8 sixes) and Damien Martyn (88 from 84 balls, 7 fours, 1 six) (playing with a broken thumb) then completed a partnership of 234 runs in 30.1 overs, an Australian record for one-day cricket.

Adam Voges

In just his second one day match at North Sydney Oval, Voges set the record for the fastest domestic one-day century, bringing up his 100 off only 62 balls (and hitting the ING sign on one of his 7 sixes, which earned him $50,000).

Amjad Javed

In 2010, in a List-A match against Bermuda, Javed hit blitzed 89 off 59 balls which included seven fours and five sixes as UAE extended their domination over Bermuda with a thumping 134-run win at the National Stadium.

At sixes and sevens

The phrase is also used in Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), where the captain, confused as to what choices to make in his life, exclaims in the opening song of Act II, "Fair moon, to thee I sing, bright regent of the heavens, say, why is everything either at sixes or at sevens?"

Australian cricket team in England in 1981

Botham's innings included 6 sixes, which was an Ashes record until Kevin Pietersen's innings of 158 at The Oval in the 2005 Ashes series.

Bangladesh A cricket team in England in 2005

147 from Shahriar Nafees and Nazimuddin's seven-ball 28 - which included three sixes, two fours and a two before he was caught and bowled off Ben Harmison - lifted Bangladesh A to a massive 299 for 6 in 50 overs, despite Neil Killeen removing Tushar Imran and Alok Kapali with successive balls mid-innings.

Bentley Speed Six

Barnato 's personal Speed Sixes had bespoke bodywork by various coachbuilders, and the Criminal Investigation Department of the Western Australia Police operated two saloon-bodied examples as patrol cars.

Caught

In a Super Sixes match in the 1999 Cricket World Cup, South Africann Herschelle Gibbs caught Australian captain Steve Waugh but Waugh was given not out when Gibbs was ruled to not have control of the ball when attempting to throw the ball in celebration.

Chandril Bhattacharya

Later, he began to air his views in the weekly Robbar Pratidin, in a feature entitled "Du Chhokka Pnach" ("two sixes and a five" - the highest number of moves you can make in the popular board game Ludo).

Dan Piachaud

In a first-class match for Oxford University against Hampshire in 1960, Piachaud was hit for 28 off an over bowled by Butch White: after bowling a dot ball, Piachaud was hit for four sixes and then a four.

Daniel Bell-Drummond

He made an aggressive 42 from 30 balls including 7 boundaries and 2 sixes before falling to Saeed Ajmal.

Danish XI cricket team in Bangladesh in 1989–90

Akram Khan played a cracking knock for Abahani, blasting 4 sixes on his way to 53.

Etisalat Sixes T20 Tournament

Etisalat Sixes T20 Tournament is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in Afghanistan.

Fat Worm of Error

They have released a split cassette with Deerhoof on Deathbomb Arc and appear on a compilation mastered by Hans Grusel with Sun City Girls, Caroliner, Nautical Almanac, Metalux, Wolf Eyes, Mono Pause, Hans Grüsel's Krankenkabinet, Tarantism, Tom Recchion, Sixes, Bran(...)Pos, Masonic Youth, Pod Blotz, Smegma, Panicsville, and others on Resipiscent.

Georges Irat

The company turned to producing Lycoming powered models in 1929, both sixes and eights; this was also the year in which they moved from Chatou to Neuilly.

Gurman Randhawa

On the 24 April 2013, during a 2nd XI game against for Yorkshire at North Marine Road Ground, Scarborough, Lancashire batsman Jordan Clark, hit 6 sixes in one over off his bowling.

Harry Frei

His 57 runs, which came off just 36 deliveries and included five sixes, ended when he was bowled by Norman Cowans.

Lloyd Mash

He scored 44 in his innings and in a Twenty20 game that they played he hit four sixes off Dwayne Bravo.

Mervyn Hill

The 1926 season was Hill's best with the bat and against Gloucestershire at Taunton, batting at No 10, he hit 60 in "just over half an hour", with two sixes and 10 fours and including 18 off a single over from Charles Parker.

Rise of the Ogre

Band creators Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn also appeared in Oxford Street, London bookstore Waterstone's to sign copies of the book on 6 November 2006 from 6pm-7pm (note the use of sixes on the date as a reference to Murdoc's satanic ways).

Scarborough Festival

The Surrey dynamo Ali Brown thrashed 133 in company with Graham Thorpe (102*) to help Surrey to 375 for 4 in just 40 overs in a Sunday League match in 1994 while Yorkshire themselves clobbered Nottinghamshire for 352 in 45 overs in 2001 thanks to Darren Lehmann's incredible 191 which came off 103 balls in 115 minutes with 20 fours and 11 sixes.

Tom Veivers

He was selected for his first Australian squad in 1962, playing in an Australian XI against the visiting English team, in which he was hit for two sixes by Ted Dexter in his opening over.

Trevor Ford

In 1968, Ford briefly acted as a substitute fielder for Glamorgan in their County Championship match against Nottinghamshire at St. Helen's, Swansea in the match during which Sir Garfield Sobers hit his world record six sixes from an over bowled by Malcolm Nash.


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