This is only the fourth instance of six sixes in an over in international T20 cricket.
It started with a single off the first ball — but just moments later, Manan Bashir’s score had jumped to 37 off 7 balls! By smashing six consecutive sixes in a single over, the Bulgarian batter etched his name into the record books.
Bashir achieved the remarkable feat on Sunday in the final of the tri-nation T20I series against Gibraltar. Chasing a target of 195, the 25-year-old wicketkeeper-batter took on 37-year-old off-spinner Kabir Mirpuri in the 16th over and cleared the boundary with every delivery.
“This is only the fourth instance of six sixes in an over in international T20 cricket.”
Before Bashir, only India’s Yuvraj Singh, West Indies’ Kieron Pollard, and Nepal’s Dipendra Singh Airee had done it.
In ODIs, the rare feat has been achieved by South Africa’s Herschelle Gibbs and USA’s Jaskaran Malhotra. In Test cricket, it’s yet to happen.
In first-class cricket, the milestone belongs to legends like Sir Garry Sobers and Ravi Shastri, while in domestic T20s, Hazratullah Zazai and Leo Carter have also hit six sixes in an over.
Bashir is now the first European player to join this elite list.
The match took place in Sofia, Bulgaria. Bashir came in to bat at number four, just before the final ball of the 15th over. He took a single off that delivery—and then launched into an all-out assault in the next, hammering six sixes. With 7 sixes in total, he finished unbeaten on 43 from just 9 balls, guiding Bulgaria to victory.
Bashir is already known for his big-hitting abilities. In this tri-nation series alone, he has smashed 28 sixes in just five innings—no one else has more than 21. He scored 227 runs at a jaw-dropping strike rate of 338.80.
Across his 8-match international T20I career for Bulgaria so far, he has already hit 31 sixes.
