After a first-ball wide, two successive sixes took him to a 23-ball fifty. Four more maximums followed, including a no-ball, which allowed him to run a single off the final ball of the over and keep the strike.<\/p>\n
Gretton collected four sixes off the first four legal balls of the 11th over to cap a 36-ball century, before dispatching the remaining two balls over the rope to complete the incredible batting feat.<\/p>\n
His 150 was brought up in 49 balls, with a 19th six, before he was bowled two balls later.<\/p>\n
Yet in all the chaos, Gretton had no idea he had hit six sixes in one over, let alone two, until he was told by a team-mate that evening. <\/p>\n
“There was a wide and a no-ball, and then we lost quite a few balls – there was a couple on the Matalan roof and quite a few in the car park as well,” said Gretton.<\/p>\n
“They had to go and retrieve them, so that over took ages and that’s why it didn’t even come to mind what had gone on.”<\/p>\n
West Indies legendary all-rounder Garfield Sobers was the first player to hit six sixes in an over in first-class cricket – for Nottinghamshire in 1968. Glamorgan’s Malcolm Nash was the unfortunate bowler.<\/p>\n
The feat has been repeated but is extremely rare – and to do so in successive overs might be a first.<\/p>\n
“I’ve heard rumours that no-one’s done it before,” added Gretton, who will next play for a Bob Willis XI, in Essex on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“It’s a bit surreal really, for a little club in Staffordshire to have that going on.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a first-ball wide, two successive sixes took him to a 23-ball fifty. Four more maximums followed, including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-590852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}