3. The Perfect Over
First achieved in first-class cricket by the great Sir Garfield Sobers for Nottinghamshire back in 1968, the perfect over is not an achievement that has been repeated to often even in the modern day of T20, with only Ravi Shastri, Herschelle Gibbs and Yuvraj Singh repeating the feat at the top level since Sobers heaped the ultimate humiliation on Glamorgan bowler Malcolm Nash 45 Years ago. Nash was considered a seam bowler, but, to great consequence in the end, decided to attempt spin-bowling on that particular day at Swansea, and Sobers Certainly made him pay. Sobers deposited the ball cleanly over the boundary on 5 occasions, and the other six was recorded when fielder Roger Davis caught the ball but fell over the boundary.
Why It Was Amazing To hit six sixes in an over, at a time where conservative batting was generally the norm, was quite an amazing feat. Even when receiving cafeteria bowling, to dispatch every ball over the rope for a maximum is an amazing achievement.
Could It Happen Again? Yes it could, and it does on rare occasions. Lancashire batsman Jordan Clark became only the fifth player to achieve the perfect over in professional cricket last month, albeit in a 2nd XI game, but in the modern day of T20, we could see the likes of Chris Gayle making the ultimate mockery of a bowler. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZUVL3SqqZo