Last 6 balls
Anyone who has played cricket and been to indoor nets will be familiar, when batting, with hearing the saying “last six”, referring to the fact that you’ve got six balls left in your net. This is traditionally a license to let loose and try to have a bit of fun. In fact, the call of last six will often be followed by a target, such as “20 to win”. It’s then your duty to “win the game” by scoring the required runs, which are adjudged by those bowling at you. You’ll need to work hard for your runs, but slog it hard enough and it’s normally possible to get the required. Easy.
It is, however, rare to hear “last 6, 36 to win”. You will know that 36 to win, off an over, equates to 6 runs a ball, or, a maximum with every shot. The likelihood of that happening is very, very small. And the point of me blabbering all this? Herschelle Gibbs has just become the first man to hit six sixes in an over in one day cricket, in South Africa’s World Cup group match against The Netherlands. It’s a quite remarkable feat, considering it has never been done before. Admittedly, South Africa playing against The Netherlands is akin to me playing against myself, with a tennis ball, by throwing it up against the side of my house, and using the edge of my garden as the boundary. Nevertheless, you still have to do it, and the six sixes is the same deal as the hat-trick for a bowler, a 147 break in Snooker or a 300 game in ten pin bowling. It doesn’t happen that often.
So hearty congratulation to Gibbs for the achievement.
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