Yuvraj Singh hit six sixes in the 19th over of India's innings against England at the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 in Durban on 19 September 2007, off Stuart Broad.…
Garfield Sobers in 1968 and Ravi Shastri in 1985, both in first-class matches.
England's counties began professional Twenty20 in 2003. The first men's T20 international followed in 2005.
Herschelle Gibbs, off Daan van Bunge at the 2007 ODI World Cup.
England's Dimitri Mascarenhas hit Yuvraj for five sixes in an over. Yuvraj did not forget.
Yuvraj hit Andrew Flintoff for two fours, words were exchanged, and the umpires stepped in.
Yuvraj hit every ball from 21-year-old Stuart Broad for six: 36 runs, the maximum possible.
From 14 off 6 to 50 off 12, then the fastest fifty in international cricket. India made 218/4.
Three days later, at the same ground, Yuvraj made 70 off 30 to knock out Australia.
India, beating Pakistan by five runs at the Wanderers in Johannesburg.
Seven months later the IPL began, with Yuvraj as Kings XI Punjab's icon player.
Yuvraj starred as India won the 2011 World Cup, then beat a rare cancer and returned in 2012.
Not overall: Nepal's Dipendra Singh Airee needed nine balls in 2023. It is still India's record.
No. Yuvraj's protege Abhishek Sharma came closest with a 14-ball fifty in January 2026.
Yuvraj posted 'It all started with this', and SS announced six collectible bats, one per ball.
The over showed that one over can decide a T20 match. The format was built on that idea.
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