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India praises Yuvraj Singh after perfect six

Former players and Indian media paid tribute to middle-order batsman Yuvraj Singh after he became the first man to hit six sixes in an over in Twenty20 cricket in a World Cup match against England on Wednesday.

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MUMBAI: Former players and Indian media paid tribute to middle-order batsman Yuvraj Singh after he became the first man to hit six sixes in an over in Twenty20 cricket in a World Cup match against England on Wednesday.   

The 25-year-old left-hander belted fast bowler Stuart Broad six in a row during the Super Eights clash in Durban on his way to scoring the fastest half-century in Twenty20 internationals, when he reached the mark off just 12 deliveries.   

His fireworks in the 19th over steered India, who amassed 218 for four, to an 18-run win to keep alive their chances of reaching the semi-final.   

"It was a tremendous performance," chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar said on Thursday.   

"It was superb, clean hitting. He is a batsman with tremendous potential and has shown all along that he is capable of this."   

Man of the match Yuvraj became the fourth batsman to achieve the feat in elite cricket, barely weeks after he himself was hit for five sixes in an over by England's Dimitri Mascarenhas in a one-dayer at the Oval.   

Earlier this year, South African Herschelle Gibbs hit Dutchman Daan van Bunge for six sixes in an over in a World Cup group match, a first in one-day international cricket.   

Twenty-two years ago, former India all-rounder Ravi Shastri smashed Tilak Raj for six sixes in an Indian domestic match but most famous example remains Garfield Sobers's six in a row off Malcolm Nash for Nottinghamshire against Glamorgan in 1968.

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