Just a few days after being retained as Pakistan’s Test team captain for the tour of West Indies, veteran batsman Misbah-ul-Haq displayed what he can do it in the shortest format of the game, as he hammered six sixes in six balls for his team Hong Kong Island United in the Hong Kong T20 Blitz on Thursday.
It all started when Hung Hom Jaguars pacer Imran Arif was lifted for two sixes in the last two balls of the 19th over. The carnage started with Arif bowling a full toss on Misbah’s pads in the fifth ball of his over, which the Pakistani veteran sent over the boundary ropes with aplomb. His last delivery made no difference either, as Misbah sent it out of the park again, this time down the ground. In the last over bowled by Ashley Caddy, Misbah completed the mayhem. Getting the strike back on the second delivery, the right-hander hit Caddy for four consecutive sixes to stun the crowd.
The no-mercy knock by Misbah (82 of 37 balls) which was decorated with seven sixes and four fours saw him guide his team to a mammoth total of 216 for six. The Jaguars in their chase, however, were no match for the Hong Kong Island as they were restricted to 183 for eight with Jonathan Foo’s gritty knock of 77 going in vain.