Nepal opener creates history by hitting six sixes in an over

Nepal batter Kushal Bhurtel joined an exclusive club of just six players when he smashed six sixes in an over during his side's T20I match against China on Sunday.

Bhurtel completed the feat in the ninth over of the contest at the Singapore National Cricket Ground in the opening match of the Asian Games Qualifier, when he launched left-arm spinner Chen Zhuo Yue over the rope a total of six times in succession across six legal deliveries.

It means Bhurtel becomes the second player from Nepal to have scored six sixes in an over in a T20I, with the right-hander joining Dipendra Singh Airee in an exclusive club of just six players to have recorded the milestone.

India great Yuvraj Singh was the first player to hit six sixes in an over when he launched England's Stuart Broad into the stands at the inaugural ICC Men's T20 World Cup in 2007, while Bhurtel now joins West Indies hard-hitter Kieron Pollard (2021), Singh Airee (2024), Samoa's Darius Visser (2024) and Bulgaria's Manan Bashir (2025) in achieving the feat in T20I cricket.

Bhurtel ended the match with a superb innings of 129 from just 43 deliveries as Nepal went on to score 313/2 from their 20 overs, before they went on to record a comfortable 221-run victory.