Jos Buttler 5 consecutive sixes: The 49th match of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024 was played between USA and England. The importance of this match played under the Super 8 round was very high in terms of the semi-finals and by winning it, England has also become the first team to make it to the top 4. Captain Jos Buttler played an important role in giving the English team a spectacular victory by 10 wickets, who played a stormy innings while chasing the target of 116 and gave his team an easy win in the 10th over itself. Butler scored an unbeaten 83 off 38 balls, which included 6 fours and 7 tremendous sixes. With the help of a rain of sixes in his innings, the English captain has made a place in the special club of Yuvraj Singh.

Second batsman after Yuvraj Singh to hit 5 or more sixes in an over

During his unbeaten innings, Jos Buttler showed a very aggressive style in the ninth over and thrashed USA's Harmeet Singh by hitting 5 consecutive sixes against him. In this way, he has become the second batsman to hit 5 or more sixes in an over in the T20 World Cup. Before him, former Indian player Yuvraj Singh has achieved this feat, who made a record of hitting 6 sixes in an over against England's Stuart Broad in the 2007 T20 World Cup.

Let us tell you that on the first ball of the ninth over, Phil Salt took 1 run and gave the strike to Jos Butler. After this, Butler hit four consecutive sixes and then the last ball was wide. When Harmeet bowled the ball again, Butler hit it out of the boundary line and thus hit the fifth consecutive six of the over. He hit the first six over long on. The second in the direction of mid-wicket, the third in front, the fourth over deep square leg and the fifth six again in the area of ​​long on.

In this way, thanks to the stormy innings of Jos Buttler, England easily won the Super 8 match necessary for the semi-finals and made its place in the next round.