Perera became the first Sri Lankan to hit six sixes in an over in any form of professional cricket, on Sunday. He also smashed the second-fastest half-century in List A cricket. Perera is the second cricketer, after West Indies T20I captain Kieron Pollard, to achieve this feat in 2021. Pollard achieved the feat just three weeks prior to Perera's, when he hit Sri Lanka's Akila Dhananjaya for six sixes in a T20I in Coolidge. There are only 9 cricketers who have scored 6 sixes in an over in professional cricket. They are as follows:
Garfield Sobers,
Ravi Shastri,
Herschelle Gibbs,
Yuvraj Singh,
Ross Whiteley,
Hazratullah Zazai,
Leo Carter
Pollard
Thisara Perera
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