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India batsman Ruturaj Gaikwad on Monday smashed an unprecedented seven successive sixes in a single over of a 50-overs home match — courtesy of a no-ball.

Gaikwad, who has performed one ODI and 9 Twenty20 matches for India, hammered 42 runs for Maharashtra in a seven-delivery over towards Uttar Pradesh.

The quarter-final of the Vijay Hazare Trophy — India’s inter-state 50-over competitors — came about on the world’s largest cricket stadium, in Ahmedabad.

Gaikwad is the primary participant to hit seven sixes in a single over in a List A class match.

But Lee Germon of New Zealand holds the all-time List A report with eight sixes in a weird 77-run over of a number of deliberate wides and no-balls in a 1990 Shell Trophy match, when Wellington deliberately gave away runs to attempt to tempt Canterbury into recklessness.

Gaikwad, 25, completed unbeaten on 220 as his workforce made 330-5.

Left-arm spinner Shiva Singh was on the receiving finish of his six-hitting blitz within the forty ninth over.

Gaikwad made his T20 worldwide debut final yr after a sterling efficiency as an attacking opener with Chennai Super Kings within the Indian Premier League.

It is the second report by an Indian batsman in as many weeks, after Tamil Nadu’s N Jagadeesan smashed 277 towards Arunachal Pradesh, the very best ever rating within the 50-over format, surpassing the 268 of England’s Alistair Brown towards Glamorgan in 2002.