Jordan Clark joined an illustrious group when he became the fifth batsmen in cricketing history to hit six sixes in an over. Sir Garfield Sobers, the legendary West Indian all-rounder was the first to achieve the feat when he hammered Malcolm Nash for six maximums in an over playing for Nottinghamshire in 1968.
Ravi Shastri, Herschelle Gibbs and Yuvraj Singh have since repeated this extraordinary feat. Clark's onslaught came in a second XI match against Yorkshire at Scarborough. The unlucky bowler was Gurman Randhawa who had, until the fateful over, enjoyed a tidy spell of two wickets for 15 off 12 overs.
The left-arm bowler was helpless as he saw Clark hammer all the six deliveries over the midwicket boundary at the picturesque Yorkshire ground. A humble Clark stated: "The wicket wasn't a massive turner. I thought I needed to step it up a little bit"
"I put them all the same way, over leg. I thought he was going to try to mix it up, especially the last two balls but they just landed in the same spot," he told the BBC.
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