The sixth ball of the over was smacked over wide mid-on by the Indian batsman as fireworks lit the entire stadium to celebrate the unprecedented feat.
Yuvraj hit the fifth ball into the night sky over midwicket. The third and fourth balls went over extra cover and backward point respectively. The next ball went for a six too as Yuvraj directed the ball towards backward square leg. On this day in 2007, Yuvraj Singh created history by hitting six sixes in six balls. Yuvraj hit the very first ball out of the ground with a super shot over the cow corner. On this day in 2007, Yuvraj Singh created history by hitting six sixes in six balls. The incident occurred in the 19th over as Broad came to deliver his final over. India won the inaugural T20 World Cup by beating Pakistan in the. Yuvraj scored a half-century of just 12 balls against England in 2007. Yuvraj said after the spat he just wanted to smack every ball out of the park, which indeed happened as the 2011 World Cup-winning player hit pacer Stuart Broad for six sixes in the next over, creating history by becoming the first-ever batsman to do so in T20Is and second overall in international cricket. Yuvraj Singh smashed six sixes in an over off Stuart Broad. The former southpaw said Flintoff then issued a threat to him and said, "Come here I will rip your neck off," to which he replied, "You know where my bat would go". Yuvraj said after he hit two back-to-back boundaries off Flintoff in the previous over, the England all-rounder came towards him and said "something". The flamboyant batsman had amassed 6 sixes in Stuart Broads over and scored his fifty of just 12 balls in the 2007 T20 World Cup.
Former India all-rounder Yuvraj Singh holds the record of smashing the fastest-ever fifty in T20Is. While speaking on the podcast ’22 Yarns with Gaurav Kapur’, Yuvraj revealed that Flintoff had threatened to "rip my neck off" after he hit the boundaries. Maliks fifty is also the fastest half-century (18 balls) for Pakistan in T20 World Cup history. It has been 14 long years since Yuvraj dished out that once-in-a-lifetime performance in Durban, which helped India beat England and make it to the semi-final of the T20 World Cup. The left-handed batsman got involved in banter with Andrew Flintoff after the latter said something to him following two consecutive boundaries that he had hit off his balls in the previous over. Former India international Yuvraj Singh recalled the famous spat with ex-England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, which eventually inspired his record-breaking six sixes off six balls in the 2007 ICC T20 World Cup.
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