Meghalaya’s Akash Kumar’s created history on Sunday when he became the first player to blast 8 consecutive sixes in first class cricket. He also shattered another record when he also became the player to score the fastest first class half century when brought up his 50 in just 11 deliveries. The cricketer created these records in the Plate Group match against Arunachal Pradesh in Surat where he came to bat at No.8 and started his innings with a dot before slamming 8 back to back sixes
The bowler in question was Arunachal’s Limar Dabi who was smashed for six sixes in the 126th over by Akash as the batter eventually surpassed Leicestershire’s Wayne Knight who had slammed 50 off 12 balls in 2012. The Indian player with the fastest 50 before Akash was Bandeep Singh who scored his half century in 15 balls for Jammu and Kashmir in 2015.
Akash was unbeaten for 50 in 14 deliveries as Meghalaya declared their first innings at 628/6. Arpit Bhatewara, Kishan Lyngdoh and Rahul Dalal had all scored centuries for Meghalaya before Akash unleashed his blitzkrieg.
Ahead of this match, the 25-year-old Akash has played 30 first class matches since his debut in 2019 and has scored 503 runs including two half centuries. He has also played 28 one day matches and 30 T20 matches.
Akash would then star with the ball when he snapped up Arunachal opener Myendung Singpho for 9. this triggered a collapse as wicketkeeper Amit Yadav was the top scorer for Arunachal with 16 runs as they were bundled out for just 73 runs. Aryan Bora of Meghalaya starred with 4 wickets as Arunachal trailed Meghalaya by 555 runs.
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