Ruturaj surpassed these two too. In the quarter-final match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, Ruturaj played a devastating inning of 220 runs off 159 balls against Uttar Pradesh. He was in an aggressive mood from the beginning when he came out to open. He hit 10 fours and 16 sixes in his unbeaten innings. Left-arm spinner Shiva Singh hit seven sixes in the 49th over.

Ruturaj sent the first four balls of that over out of the field. Shiva made the fifth ball. The next ball took advantage of the free-hit opportunity and hit it again for a six. Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s IPL teammate has set a new world record in List A cricket by hitting seven sixes in seven consecutive balls. This is the first time in world cricket that 7 sixes have been hit in an over.

There have been several instances of hitting six sixes in six balls both domestically and internationally. India’s Ravi Shastri hit six sixes in the domestic circuit. Yuvraj Singh hit six sixes in the first six balls of international cricket. West Indies’ Sir Gary Sobers, Kieron Pollard, South Africa’s Herschelle Gibbs, and American Jaskaran Malhotra hit six sixes in an over.