An unknown club cricketer on Tuesday surpassed cricketing legend Sir Gary Sobers’ feat of scoring the highest number of runs in an over.
Jonathan Hughes, a Yorkshire club cricketer scored 42, hitting six sixes, a four and a two off medium-pacer Craig Hobson while playing for North Leeds against Hall Park in a Cup match.
The feat was possible because Hobson sent down two no balls in the over, a BBC report said, adding Hughes went on to make 126 not out.
Former West Indies captain Sobers, universally acclaimed as the greatest all-round cricketer the game has ever seen, scored 36 off an over for Nottinghamshire against Glamorgan in 1968.
His record was later equalled by Ravi Shastri, who struck six sixes while batting for Mumbai 21 years ago.
Hughes’ record, however, would not find its way to the record books, as there are no official records for club cricket.
Yep, I had a bowler bowl 9 noballs in one over during our University team selection tournament....... :-)..
Don't remember number of runs scored in that over.......
The real problems, however, were in the scorebox where the bewildered scorers and scoreboard operators lost track of what was happening and at one point resorted to consulting with spectators to try to resolve the chaos. Even the umpire was left bewildered, only allowing five legitimate
*** deliveries before calling an end to the carnage.***
I read about this incident in the 1991 issu of Cricketer(URDU) pakistan, i kept that issue on me for quite a while and i used this as a quiz question to many smart ass cricket followers:D and used to show them that issue of magazine to prove WHo is the Daddy?:D that was back in 4th 5th grade.:D
The other day i saw this Dutch bowler, Ghaznavi in A tounament being played in UAE, he was unable to control the ball at all. Kept throwing the ball over the keepers head and down the leg side. He could not even complete the over, bowled 11 balls, 5 of them legitimate and was called off by umpire for bowling "beamers" though his speed was slower than snail.
