Yuvraj Singh re-enacts altercation with Andrew Flintoff, six sixes from 2007 T20 World Cup on 14th anniversary

19th September 2007. 21st match of the inaugural ICC T20 World Cup at Durban’s Kingsmead Stadium between England and India.

Nearly four decades had elapsed since Garfield Sobers brutally assaulted Malcolm Nash in the 1968 County season clash between Nottinghamshire and Glamorgan, to become the first-ever to hit 36 runs in an over in any form of cricket. A bit of an Andrew Flintoff spur is all it would take for that record to be equalled, as Yuvraj Singh pummeled England’s 21-year-old Stuart Broad for six sixes to imprint his name in the record books.

The Durban destruction is 14 years old now, and in case the memories faded, Yuvraj Singh decided to refresh them as he enacted the whole sequence of events from the fateful day in a video posted on his official YouTube.

Yuvraj’s raced off to 50 in just 12 balls, which remains the fastest to this day. Before his entry, India did not have even 200 in sight, but his murderous 16-ball 58 powered the team to 218/4 before Irfan Pathan’s 3/37 helped India restrict England 18 runs short.

Yuvraj had revealed that he was riled up by Flintoff right before the penultimate over, which had a part to play in his knock. In the re-enacted video, Yuvraj reveals the in-between-balls conversation with MS Dhoni, the non-striker, while he also recalls how he was at the receiving end and had conceded five sixes once (at The Oval against England only a couple of weeks ago).

However, as fate would have it, he came back to dispatch England’s lead bowler for six in a row, a feat that has been achieved only once in international cricket after Yuvraj’s heroics, as Kieron Pollard slammed Akila Dananjaya six sixes during a home T20I series in March 2021.

Before Yuvraj and Pollard, South Africa’s Herschelle Gibbs etched his name in the books for the same feat when he belted Netherlands’ Daan van Bunge for 36 runs during the 2007 ICC ODI World Cup, to become the first international cricketer to achieve the record. These three aside, recently USA’s Jaskaran Malhotra emulated the record during his team’s clash against Papua New Guinea.

Here’s Yuvraj Singh’s re-enacted video: