Riding on Davies’ brilliant batting, NSW metro won the match by 168 runs.
Oliver Davies (Photo: Twitter/@Cricketcomau)
Oliver Davies, Australian teen sensation, smashed six sixes in an over on Monday as he scored a brilliant double century in an Under-19 National Championships match in Adelaide.
The match was played between NSW Metro and Northern Territory. Playing for NSW Metro, Davies smashed 17 sixes in his innings as he finished on 207 coming off just 115 balls.
Davies took 74 balls to reach his century and after that, he took just 39 more balls to score his second 100. During his innings, he also smashed six sixes in an over off-spinner jack James. Davies smashed all six over midwicket.
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“After the first two sixes I had it in the back of my head I wanted to give it a crack and it paid off at the end,” said the Aussie after achieving the mark.
“I was trying to target (the area) from forward square to cow corner and I was just getting down on the back leg, almost before it was even bowled, and trying to slog sweep them over mid-wicket.”
Riding on Davies’ brilliant batting, NSW metro won the match by 168 runs.
In the recorded history of cricket, West Indies batting great Sir Garfield Sobers was the first to hit six sixes in an over. he achieved the feat in a first-class cricket match in Swansea on 31 August, 1968.
Seventeen years later, on January 10, 1985, India’s Ravi Shastri equaled Garry Sobers’s record by scoring six sixes in a six-ball over. It was a Ranji Trophy match being played between Mumbai and Baroda. Shastri, the current head coach of Team India, went on to score the fastest-ever double century in First-Class cricket history that day.
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