It’s been 13 years progressed to the day and Yuvraj took to social media to remember “how time flies,” posting a still from one of the sixes he hit off Broad in that deadly over. Broad cherished the day, too, as he commented: “Time flies less than the cricket ball that night.” The comment left Yuvraj in splits as he fondly recollected the game as “one night we all will never forget.”
Chris Gayle, another big-hitter in Yuvraj’s mold, commented as well and called Yuvraj’s feat “legendary” while Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj’s teammate from that match, went filmy in his appreciation. “Ye record mujhe de de Thakur (Give this record to me),” commented Gambhir, using an improvised dialogue from a Hindi feature film.
India and England met in a T20 World Cup match in Durban and half-centuries by Gambhir and Virender Sehwag gave India a strong start. Yuvraj came in at the fall of the third wicket and smashed a 21-year-old Broad for sixes off every ball of the 19th over.
