Kieron Pollard hits six sixes in an over as Windies beat Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka leg-spinner Akila Dananjaya skilled the precipitous highs and lows of Twenty20 cricket when he claimed a hat trick which included the wicket of West Indies star Chris Gayle for a first-ball duck, then was hit for six sixes in an over by Kieron Pollard within the first worldwide in Antigua.
The West Indies on Wednesday gained the match by 4 wickets with 41 balls in hand, ending with 134-6.
Dananjaya grew to become solely the fifteenth participant and the fourth Sri Lankan to take a T20 worldwide hat trick when he dismissed Evin Lewis (28), Gayle and Nicholas Pooran (0) with consecutive deliveries within the fourth over.
He had little time to mirror on his new-found fame when it turned to notoriety: in his subsequent over he was hit to all elements of the bottom by Pollard, who develop into solely the second participant after Yuvraj Singh to hit six sixes in an over in a T20 worldwide and the third participant to attain the feat in all worldwide codecs.

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Yuvraj did so from England’s Stuart Broad within the inaugural T20 World Cup in 2007 and needed to wait 14 years for firm.
Pollard mentioned he thought six sixes was a chance “after the third one.”
“I just had to come out and back myself,” he mentioned.
“It was something the team needed. I didn’t see the hat trick, I only heard. But I still had to come out and do what the team required at that point in time.”
Dananjaya’s see-sawing fortunes, he was hit for a seventh consecutive six by Jason Holder in his subsequent over and had two catches dropped from his bowling, turned the West Indies” seemingly simple chase for 132 to take a 1-0 lead within the collection into an exhilarating spectacle.
Sri Lanka managed solely 131-9 in its 20 overs after being despatched in to bat. It had been 86-3 however fell aside after a brief rain break and misplaced six wickets for 45 runs.
Captain Angelo Mathews (5) fell within the first over after play resumed and Dinesh Chandimal (11) was out three balls later. Thisara Perera (1) fell within the seventeenth over and Sri Lanka slumped additional to 106-6, then 111-7 when Hasaranga de Silva was out for 12.
Two runouts within the remaining over noticed Sri Lanka fall effectively wanting a aggressive complete.
The West Indies appeared more likely to quickly run down the Sri Lanka complete when Lewis hit the final three balls of the primary over for six. But Dananjaya’s hat trick noticed the house aspect slip from 52-0 to 52-3, shedding Gayle to the primary ball of his first T20 in two years.
Pollard’s barrage within the sixth over lifted the West Indies from 62-4 on the dismissal of Lendl Simmons to 92-4 and once more had the house aspect coasting to victory.
Another twist was in retailer when de Silva dismissed Pollard (38) and Fabian Allen with consecutive deliveries within the seventh over, denied a hat trick by Dwayne Bravo who defended the subsequent supply.
The West Indies had been 101-6 and had been seen house by Bravo and captain Jason Holder, who made an unbeaten 29. Holder hit a six, the fifteenth of the innings, to take West Indies previous Sri Lanka’s complete.