Batter joins elite group with six sixes in an over

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Pakistan's Iftikhar Ahmed has blasted the bowling of an planetary teammate and joined an exclusive club, becoming conscionable the 11th antheral to deed six sixes successful an over.

Ahmed destroyed the bowling of Wahab Riaz successful a Pakistan Super League accumulation lucifer betwixt the Quetta Gladiators and Peshawar Zalmi.

The lone men who had antecedently chalked up six sixes successful an implicit were Sir Garfield Sobers, Ravi Shastri, Herschelle Gibbs, Yuvraj Singh, Kieron Pollard, Ross Whiteley, Hazratullah Zazai, Leo Carter, Thisara Perera and Jaskaran Malhotra.

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After hammering a half-century successful 42 balls, Ahmed was connected onslaught astatine the commencement of the last implicit of the Gladiators' innings.

The destructive right-hander past proceeded to smash six consecutive sixes, sending the shot implicit backward quadrate leg, cattle corner, long-off, backward constituent and doubly 3rd man.

Ahmed finished unbeaten connected 94 runs from 50 balls.

The eighth variation of the Pakistan Super League volition get underway arsenic the Multan Sultans look the Lahore Qalandars connected February 14.

There are much home T20 leagues than ever successful 2023, aft a South African tourney and United Arab Emirates contention began successful January.

Faf du Plessis, Jos Buttler and Rashid Khan are among the stars playing successful the South African league, portion Pollard, Tom Curran and Australians Chris Lynn and Marcus Stoinis are immoderate of the starring players successful the UAE tournament.

Babar Azam, Shaheen Afridi and Martin Guptill are among the astir notable players registered for the Pakistan Super League.

Australians Matthew Wade, Tim David, Andrew Tye and Ben Cutting are besides acceptable to diagnostic successful the Pakistan tournament.

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