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Pollard hits six sixes off hat-trick man Dananjaya in T20 triumph

Six of the best: Kieron Pollard of the West Indies takes a bow after hitting six sixes off one over from Sri Lanka’s Akila Dananjaya

ST. JOHN’S (ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA) – West Indies captain Kieron Pollard on Wednesday became only the third man to hit six sixes in an international over in his team’s four-wicket Twenty20 victory over Sri Lanka.

The feat came in the sixth over of a bizarre West Indies innings, bowled by off-spinner Akila Dananjaya who moments earlier in his previous over had been celebrating taking a hat-trick.

Pollard followed in the footsteps of South Africa’s Herschelle Gibbs against the Netherlands in the 2007 World Cup and India’s Yuvraj Singh, who also achieved the feat in the 2007 Twenty20 World Cup against England.

Pollard was eventually out for 38 off 11 balls as the West Indies chased…

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