Yuvraj Singh, the former India all-rounder, declared “it’s over now” to Dmitri Mascarenhas after famously hitting six sixes in the T20 World Cup in September 2007, exacting revenge for the embarrassment he faced after conceding five sixes in an over earlier that month.
Featuring on the Sony Ten Pit Stop Show Facebook live alongside Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford, Yuvraj recalled how he couldn’t sleep for days after Dmitri Mascarenhas hit him for five consecutive sixes during an India-England ODI in 2007, a fortnight before the two teams clashed again in the 20-over World Cup.
“I don’t know why the captain [Rahul Dravid] gave me the bowl the last over,” Yuvraj said. “Dimitri Mascarenhas hit me for five sixes in six balls. I’m glad he didn’t hit me for six sixes and I couldn’t sleep for the next 15 days.
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“The calls and messages from my friends after that were really disheartening. I never got so many calls when I scored a hundred.”
Yuvraj then dished out a stunning riposte on Stuart Broad, Mascarenhas’s teammate when India and England clashed again in the group stage of the T20 World Cup, going one up by tonking six sixes off an over, en route the fastest fifty in international cricket, off only 12 balls. ending with 58 off 16.
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“Then I remember when I hit six sixes,” Yuvraj said. “I did not look at Broad or anyone, I looked at Dimitri and said, ‘This is over now, this is gone to bed’. It was very satisfying that I could do it against the same team.”
