India seamer Munaf Patel etched his name in record books for dubious reasons after he conceded 25 runs in an over in the West Indies first innings of the third cricket Test on Friday.
India seamer Munaf Patel etched his name in record books for dubious reasons after he conceded 25 runs in an over in the West Indies first innings of the third Test here on Friday.
Patel in his 19th over was smashed for six successive fours including one off a no-ball by Ramnaresh Sarwan, who celebrated his 26th birthday with a ton, on the second day at Warner Park stadium. That put the right arm seamer from Bharuch second in the list of Indian bowlers to have conceded most runs in an over in Tests.
Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh topped that chart after he went for 27 runs — the sequence being 6, 6, 6, 6, 2, 1 — to Shahid Afridi in the Lahore Test earlier this year. From the batsman’s side, Sarwan’s feat is only the third occasion when six fours were scored in an over in Tests.
Sandeep Patil gave England’s Bob Willis a similar treatment at Manchester in 1982, although the sequence was puntuated by a no-ball. Chris Gayle collected as many boundaries from Matthew Hoggard at the Oval in 2004.
The record for most runs in an over in Tests, however, belongs to Brian Lara who plundered 28 runs (4, 6, 6, 4, 4, 4) from Robin Peterson of South Africa at Johannesburg in 2003-04.
Patel’s nightmare started when Sarwan drove the first delivery through the covers for four. Sarwan hooked the second ball to the square leg ropes for another four, and he drove the third uppishly through cover for his third boundary of the over. Patel was unlucky not to dismiss Sarwan with his next ball, which found the inside edge of the bat before scooting to the fine leg fence. Perhaps imbued by his good fortune, a daring Sarwan cut the fifth delivery between the slip cordon and gully for four. The shaken Patel was probably desperate to end the over, but his sixth delivery was ruled a no-ball — which Sarwan cut past point for four.
Patel bowled the ball again, and while he managed to send down a legal delivery he pitched the ball short and wide of Sarwan’s off-stump. To Patel’s relief, Sarwan played the ball gently to point. No run was taken. It was the fifth time in Test cricket that an over had yielded 25 runs.
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