Meghalaya’s Akash Kumar’s created historical past on Sunday when he turned the primary participant to blast 8 consecutive sixes in firstclass cricket. He additionally shattered one other file when he additionally turned the participant to attain the quickest firstclass half century when introduced up his 50 in simply 11 deliveries. The cricketer created these data within the Plate Group match towards Arunachal Pradesh in Surat the place he got here to bat at No.8 and began his innings with a dot earlier than slamming 8 again to again sixes
The bowler in query was Arunachal’s Limar Dabi who was smashed for six sixes within the 126th over by Akash because the batter finally surpassed Leicestershire’s Wayne Knight who had slammed 50 off 12 balls in 2012. The Indian participant with the quickest 50 earlier than Akash was Bandeep Singh who scored his half century in 15 balls for Jammu and Kashmir in 2015.
Akash was unbeaten for 50 in 14 deliveries as Meghalaya declared their first innings at 628/6. Arpit Bhatewara, Kishan Lyngdoh and Rahul Dalal had all scored centuries for Meghalaya earlier than Akash unleashed his blitzkrieg.
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First participant to hit eight consecutive sixes in first-class cricket ✅
Quickest fifty, off simply 11 balls, in first-class cricket ✅
Meghalaya’s Akash Kumar etched his title within the file books with a blistering knock of fifty*(14) within the Plate Group match towards… pic.twitter.com/dJbu8BVhb1
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Forward of this match, the 25-year-old Akash has performed 30 firstclass matches since his debut in 2019 and has scored 503 runs together with two half centuries. He has additionally performed 28 sooner or later matches and 30 T20 matches.
Akash would then star with the ball when he snapped up Arunachal opener Myendung Singpho for 9. this triggered a collapse as wicketkeeper Amit Yadav was the highest scorer for Arunachal with 16 runs as they have been bundled out for simply 73 runs. Aryan Bora of Meghalaya starred with 4 wickets as Arunachal trailed Meghalaya by 555 runs.