Thisara Perera hits six sixes in an over

Somya Kapoor

Sri Lanka all-rounder Thisara Perera became the first batsman from the country to hit six sixes in an over in any form of professional cricket. 

Thisara achieved the feat while leading Sri Lanka Army against Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club in the Major Clubs Limited Over List A tournament at the Army Ground in Panagoda town on Sunday. Perera was up against off-spinner Dilhan Cooray during this over. 

Perera hit a total of eight sixes in the innings while scoring the second fastest half-century in List A cricket by a Sri Lankan. He eventually scored an unbeaten 52 off 13 during the course. 

The left-handed batsman came out to bat number 5 position with 20 balls left in the innings. The match was reduced to 41-overs-a-side. 

The Sri Lankan cricketer is the ninth batsman to smash six sixes in an over at the professional level. Garfield Sobers, Ravi Shastri, Herschelle Gibbs, Yuvraj Singh, Ross Whiteley, Hazratullah Zazai, Leo Carter and Kieron Pollard are the other batsmen in the list. 

Perera has played 6 Tests, 166 ODIs and 84 T20Is for Sri Lanka. In the six Tests that Perera has played, he has scored 203 runs while has struck over 2300 runs in the ODIs and has 175 wickets to his name in the format. In T20Is, the all-rounder has 422 runs to his name at a strike-rate of 137.46 and has scalped 51 wickets. 



 

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