New Delhi. Sri Lanka's young opener Pathum Nissanka is in the news these days. Nissanka made his name among the selected players by hitting 6 consecutive fours in one over in T20. In the second T20 match against West Indies, Nissanka took 6 balls of fast bowler Shamar Joseph across the boundary. On the basis of Nissanka's brilliant batting, Sri Lanka leveled the series by winning the second T20 match. He scored 54 runs in 49 balls with the help of 9 fours and one six. He achieved the feat of hitting six consecutive fours in the fourth over of the Sri Lankan innings.
26-year-old Pathum Nissanka scored a total of 25 runs in one over of Shamar Joseph, which also included one run wide. Joseph had bowled the third ball wide. The four that Nissanka hit on Joseph's ball came in the form of a leg bye. In such a situation, 5 fours were added to his account. Nissanka became the first batsman in the world to hit six consecutive sixes in an over in T20 International cricket. Before this, six batsmen had done this feat and no one had done this in T20 till now. Nissanka is the second batsman from Sri Lanka to hit six fours in an over. Earlier, Tillakaratne Dilshan had done this work in ODI.
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These 6 batsmen hit 6 sixes in one over
Among the six batsmen who have previously hit six fours in an over in the cricket world, the name of Sandeep Patil comes at the top who had made this record in Test, while Chris Gayle has made this record in Test and Ajinkya Rahane has made this record in IPL. . Ramnaresh Sarwan Test and Prithvi Shaw have done this work in IPL. Nissanka has also completed 1000-run partnership with Kusal Mendis in T20 International cricket. This became the first Sri Lankan pair to do so.
Nissanka has scored 1483 runs in T20
26-year-old Pathum Nissanka has scored 1483 runs in 56 T20 International matches, which includes 12 half-centuries. Nissanka scores runs at a strike rate of more than 118 in T20. He scored 784 runs in 13 Test matches while he scored 2326 runs in 58 ODIs. Right-handed batsman Nissanka has made his place in the Sri Lankan team in all three formats in a very short time. He entered international cricket in the year 2021. After this there was no looking back.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : October 16, 2024, 4:16 PM IST
