This ideally shows how the course of a cricket match can change in just a single over. Interestingly, Akhila Dhananjaya, the bowler who got hit by Pollard’s blade for 6 sixes, scalped a hat-trick that had put the hosts on their backfoot.
Back yourselves to clear the boundary,” Kieron Pollard said. 'I felt after hitting a couple of sixes, I understood how the pitch plays, it was important to be positive and play your shots. Sir Garfield Sobers, Ravi Shastri, Herschelle Gibbs, Yuvraj Singh, Ross Whitely, Hazratullah Zazai and Leo Carter are the other seven batsmen who have achieved this feat. The West Indies captain is only the third cricketer after Herschelle Gibbs and Yuvraj Singh to hit 6 sixes in an over in international cricket. On Thursday during the first T20I between Windies and Sri Lanka, Kieron Pollard became the eighth cricketer to hit 6 sixes in an over.
