Misbah-ul-Haq, the Pakistani Test captain, recently announced his retirement from International Cricket but will play for his nation one last time in the upcoming series against West Indies. Misbah has had a roller coaster kind of career but recently, the 42-year-old has touched new heights, showing what we are going to miss in Cricket in the upcoming years.
However, Misbah-ul-Haq has added another feather to his cap and has joined the elite squad of prize hitters by doing the unthinkable. He went berserk and hit 6 sixes in 6 balls during a Hong Kong T20 Blitz game between HKI United and Hung Hom JD Jaguars, taking his team, The Islands, to one of the most exciting and nail-biting win.
Misbah-ul-Haq registered a total of 82 runs off just 37 deliveries, taking his team to a colossal total of 216 runs, against which Jaguars kneeled down at just 183 runs. He has now joined the likes of Ravi Shastri, Sir Gary Sobers, Herschelle Gibbs and Yuvraj Singh after achieving this next to impossible feat and what’s better than reliving those six balls once again.
Wait. We have a better idea, let’s watch Misbah-ul-Haq and Yuvraj Singh’s knock back to back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5elgLOGyzBk
( Video Courtesy: Cricket De Zone HD )
Yuvraj Singh’s International Knock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSwSaF2z124
( Video Courtesy: Jyoti Sharma )
P.S These two innings can’t be compared with each other as one has achieved this milestone in an International match while the recent one came during a domestic league.
Rohan Jaitly
9th March 2017