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Fastest double hundred in First-Class cricket
Tue, September 15 2015
Ravi Shastri smashes six sixes in one over to equal Garry Sobers’s world record and scores fastest-ever double hundred in First-Class history
On January 10, 1985. It was on this day Ravi Shastri equaled Garry Sobers’s First-Class record of scoring six sixes in a six-ball over and went on to score the fastest-ever double century in First-Class cricket history. H Natarajan, who covered the match from the Press Box, brings an eye-witness account of the carnage.