{"id":2767,"date":"2021-09-19T14:31:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T09:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=150720"},"modified":"2021-09-19T14:32:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T09:02:07","slug":"14-years-ago-today-yuvraj-singh-hit-stuart-broad-for-6-sixes-in-an-over-to-script-history-in-the-icc-2007-t20i-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/14-years-ago-today-yuvraj-singh-hit-stuart-broad-for-6-sixes-in-an-over-to-script-history-in-the-icc-2007-t20i-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"14 years ago today, Yuvraj Singh hit Stuart Broad for 6 sixes in an over to script history in the ICC 2007 T20I World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Former all-rounder for the Indian men\u2019s cricket team, Yuvraj Singh scripted history on this very day 14 years ago in 2007 where he became the first-ever batsman to send all balls bowled over the boundary line in a single over of T20 International cricket. Yuvraj displayed the extraordinary in the 19th over of the Indian innings where he hit England\u2019s Stuart Broad for six sixes that took India\u2019s batting total over the 200 run mark.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Look out in the crowd!<\/p>\n<p>On this day in 2007, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YUVSTRONG12?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YUVSTRONG12<\/a> made <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/T20WorldCup?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#T20WorldCup<\/a> history, belting six sixes in an over \ud83d\udca5 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bgo9FxFBq6\">pic.twitter.com\/Bgo9FxFBq6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1439446654030024709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The start of the game saw India winning the toss and had opted to bat first. The left-hander made his way to the crease after the departure of Robin Uthappa. Yuvraj wasted no time to settle in and finished his innings at 58 runs in 16 balls which included 3 fours and 7 sixes. He lost his wicket in the 19.5 over to Andrew Flintoff having a strike rate of 362.50.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The game didn\u2019t look good for India as the Men in Blue found themselves on 171\/3 at the end of the 18th over. Yuvraj Singh and the then skipper MS Dhoni were the duos at the middle of the field for India who was looking to finish off the first innings on a high, and high they did, courtesy of Yuvraj\u2019s single over the display. At the end of the second innings, England could only manage to put a total of 200 runs on the board while losing 6 wickets courtesy of Irfan Pathan (3wkts), RP Singh (2wkts) and Harbhajan Singh (1wtk) to win the game by 18 runs. India went on to lift the inaugural ICC T20 World Cup in 2007 after the win over Pakistan in the final by 5 runs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OnThisDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OnThisDay<\/a> when people change perception to watch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/T20?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#T20<\/a>.<br \/>Man known for the Distractions <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YUVSTRONG12?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YUVSTRONG12<\/a> Pajiiii.<br \/>What a moment it was\u2026\u2026 cant forget each ball.<br \/>Yuvi Paji the Great<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/6sixes?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#6sixes<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/YuvrajSingh?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#YuvrajSingh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EJCGzBGEu3\">pic.twitter.com\/EJCGzBGEu3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Munaf Patel (@munafpa99881129) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/munafpa99881129\/status\/1439436031506280452?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\u278f+\u278f+\u278f+\u278f+\u278f+\u278f = \u278a\u278b<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OnThisDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OnThisDay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaddaPunjab?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SaddaPunjab<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PunjabKings?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PunjabKings<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Yuvi?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Yuvi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YUVSTRONG12?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YUVSTRONG12<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IjIRsZWzk0\">pic.twitter.com\/IjIRsZWzk0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Punjab Kings (@PunjabKingsIPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PunjabKingsIPL\/status\/1439454205127790594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was on this day, 14 years ago, when former India all-rounder Yuvraj Singh smashed 6 sixes in Stuart Broad\u2019s over against England in the first-ever T20I World Cup in 2007 in South Africa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":25852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2091,1020,75],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-icc-t20-world-cup-2007","tag-men-in-blue","tag-yuvraj-singh"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}