Huge sixers!

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God at last answered Yuvraj's prayers. Yuvraj Singh of India on Sep 19 entered history of Twenty-20 cricket as the first player to hit six sixes in one over, a feat he achieved in the penultimate over scoring 58 off 16 balls against England, the fastest half century in international history---off only 12 balls. Six balls delivered by England's Stuart Broad had a return journey from Singh's bat dancing first over long on, second a flick to square leg, third over long-off, the fourth over point, fifth a miss-hit over mid-wicket and the sixth was again over long on. Stuart Broad with an apologetic face has to spend the rest of his life remembering his place in the grey page of history as the first bowler to be hit for six sixes in Twenty20.
In Twenty20, every ball delivered, hit or missed, tells a tale and every player and each viewer---on the pitch or on the retractable or fixed chair on the terrace or bleacher of stadiums and on the divans or easy chairs in living rooms or bedrooms---registers more vividly the moments in their mental journals. Moments of euphoria and despair of this sprint cricket will stay locked in our memory shelves never to be erased. This new breed of Twenty20 with its inherent cricket DNA intact is poised to phase out ODI and overshadow Test cricket in future.
The world would not have a chance to witness many stunning wonders like this onslaught of sixers, had the England and Wales Cricket Board not introduced Twenty20 at the county level in 2003 and the first T-20 not taken place in 2005 between New Zealand and Australia.
May Twenty-20 live long!