Yorkshire’s rookie Randhawa creates an unwanted record at Scarborough

YORKSHIRE’s Gurman Randhawa created an unwanted slice of cricketing history yesterday when he was struck for six sixes in an over by Lancashire’s Jordan Clark.
Tim Bresnan of Yorkshire celebrates bowling Keaton Jennings of DurhamTim Bresnan of Yorkshire celebrates bowling Keaton Jennings of Durham
Tim Bresnan of Yorkshire celebrates bowling Keaton Jennings of Durham

The left-arm spin bowler, 21, was put to the sword on day two of the club’s three-day second XI friendly at Scarborough.

Randhawa, bowling from the Trafalgar Square end, was hit each time over mid-wicket towards the main gate.

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Clark, 22, a powerful right-hander, decided to go for the full set after striking the first three balls over the rope.

Howard Clayton, the Yorkshire second team scorer, said he had never seen anything like it.

“I’ve seen six sixes in an over on TV before when Stuart Broad got clobbered by Yuvraj Singh a few years ago, but I’d never seen anyone do it live,” he said.

“Once he’d hit the first three or four sixes you got the idea it was going to happen, but it was still amazing when it did happen.

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“When the last ball cleared the boundary, a great cheer went up from the Lancashire dressing room.

“Gurman seemed to take it all in his stride; he had been bowling very tightly up to that point.”

Randhawa, one of the club’s most promising youngsters, had taken 2-15 from his first 12 overs.

But his 13th over proved decidedly unlucky as Clark went berserk.

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“There were only a handful of spectators present to witness the feat,” added Clayton. “We had a reasonable crowd on the first day, but I think most of them had decided to go up to Durham to watch the first team in action.”

It is not known whether anyone has previously scored six sixes in an over in a second team fixture.

However, the achievement has been performed four times in senior cricket.

Garry Sobers, the great West Indian all-rounder, was famously the first man to do it against Glamorgan’s Malcolm Nash at Swansea in 1968.

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Ravi Shastri, the Indian all-rounder, did it to Tilak Raj in 1985, playing for Bombay against Baroda in the only other instance in first-class cricket.

Former Yorkshire batsman Herschelle Gibbs performed the feat at the 2007 World Cup against the Netherlands, when he hit Daan van Bunge for six sixes in an over at St Kitts.

And another former Yorkshire batsman, Yuvraj Singh, achieved it in 2007 against England’s Stuart Broad in a Twenty20 World Cup game in Durban.

Clark – the first Englishman to join the rarefied club – scored 102 as Lancashire made 455-9 declared in response to Yorkshire’s first innings 248.

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