In a stunning display of power-batting, Meghalaya batsman Akash Kumar Choudhary etched his name into the history books on Sunday, smashing the fastest fifty in first-class cricket off just 11 balls during a Ranji Trophy Plate Group match against Arunachal Pradesh in Surat. He also smashed 8 consecutive sixes at the C K Pithawala Ground, creating another record.
The 25-year-old cricketers score propelled Meghalaya to a declaration at 628 for 6 and. Kumar, batting at No. 8, entered the crease towards the end of Meghalaya’s first innings after Rahul Dalal’s dismissal for 144, with Meghalaya already in a commanding position at 576 for 6.
Facing left-arm spinner Limar Dabi in the 126th over, Kumar unleashed a barrage of sixes that left spectators and opponents alike in awe. After smashing six sixes in all six balls of that over, Akash went on hit two more over-boundaries in the first two balls of the next over. Akash remained unbeaten on 50 runs off 14 deliveries when Meghalaya captain Kishan Lyngdoh decided to end the team’s first innings.
Video footage of the match shows Kumar dispatching each delivery with authority: the first two sailed over midwicket on pull shots. Limar Dabi decided to bowl over the wicket after the first two sixes, but there was no change in the result, the third and fourth bowls were lofted straight down the ground. The fifth cleared long-on with a powerful shot as the bowler returned to round the wicket, and the sixth disappeared over deep square leg.
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First player to hit eight consecutive sixes in first-class cricket ✅
Fastest fifty, off just 11 balls, in first-class cricket ✅
Meghalaya's Akash Kumar etched his name in the record books with a blistering knock of 50*(14) in the Plate Group match against… pic.twitter.com/dJbu8BVhb1
This made Kumar only the third player in first-class history to hit six sixes in a single over, joining legends Garry Sobers and Ravi Shastri.
ut Kumar wasn’t done. He continued his assault into the next over, adding two more sixes to become the first batter ever recorded to strike eight in succession. The seventh six went straight down the ground, and the eight went to square leg.
He started his innings with a dot ball, and then took two singles, and then the eight sixes before three more dots. The entire blitz lasted just nine minutes that surpassed the previous fastest first-class fifty of 12 balls by England’s Wayne White in 2012.
