Archive · 19 Sep 2026
Yuvraj Singh’s Six Sixes Changed T20 Cricket Forever
In 2007, India played England in a major T20 cricket match.
Yuvraj Singh was batting for India.
He hit the ball out of the field six times in one over from Stuart Broad.
This made him the first player to do that in a T20 international match.
He was only the second player in international cricket to hit six sixes in one over.
Yuvraj then scored 58 runs from just 16 balls.
He also reached fifty runs in only 12 balls.
His powerful batting made the moment one of the most famous in T20 cricket.
On September 19, 2007, India faced England in a Super 8 match at the inaugural T20 World Cup.
Yuvraj Singh hit six sixes in Stuart Broad’s over at Kingsmead in Durban.
He became the first batter to hit six sixes in a T20I over and the second in international cricket.
Yuvraj scored 58 runs from 16 balls and recorded a 12-ball fifty.
The feat followed a verbal exchange involving Yuvraj and Andrew Flintoff before Broad’s over.
- Who
- Yuvraj Singh hit six sixes in an over bowled by Stuart Broad for India against England.
- What
- Yuvraj became the first batter in T20I cricket to hit six sixes in one over.
- When
- September 19, 2007.
- Where
- Kingsmead in Durban, during the inaugural 2007 T20 World Cup.
- Why
- Yuvraj was batting for India in a Super 8 match against England and attacked the bowling during India’s innings.
- Match
- India vs England, Super 8 stage of the inaugural 2007 T20 World Cup
- Venue
- Kingsmead, Durban
- Six-hitting bowler
- Stuart Broad
- Sixes in the over
- Six
- Yuvraj’s score
- 58 runs from 16 balls
- Fastest fifty
- 12 balls, described as the quickest among Test-playing nations in T20Is at the time
- International milestone
- Second player to hit six sixes in an international over, after Herschelle Gibbs