Meghalaya’s Akash Kumar Choudhary became the first player to hit eight consecutive sixes in first-class cricket during the Ranji Trophy Plate group match against Arunachal Pradesh in Surat on Sunday (November 9, 2025), while also registering the fastest half-century in the format off just 11 balls. Batting at number eight, 25-year-old Choudhary dismissed C. K.

Achieved a surprising feat on the second day of the match. Peethawala ground here. He remained unbeaten on 50 off 14 balls as Meghalaya declared their first innings at 628 for 6.

Chaudhary broke the previous record for the fastest half-century in first-class cricket, which was set by Leicestershire’s Wayne White in 12 balls against Essex in 2012. He became the third player after West Indies great Sir Garfield Sobers and India’s Ravi Shastri to hit six consecutive sixes in first-class cricket. Choudhary recorded this feat after Meghalaya scored 576 runs for six wickets.

Starting his innings with a dot and two singles, the right-handed batsman hit sixes off the next eight balls. He sent Limmar Dabi’s 126th ball over the ropes. Before Sunday’s outing, Chaudhary averaged 14.

37 with only two fifties in 30 first-class matches, which also included this year’s Duleep Trophy for North East Zone. He has also played 28 List-A matches and 20 T20 matches.

Sobers was the first player to hit six sixes in an over in August 1968, when he hit Malcolm Nash during a county match between Nottinghamshire and Glamorgan. Former India all-rounder and head coach Shastri hit six sixes in a row off Tilak Raj while playing for Bombay against Baroda during the 1984-85 Ranji Trophy match at the Wankhede Stadium.

In reply to Meghalaya declaring at 628 for 6, Arunachal Pradesh were all out for just 73 runs in their first innings and were once again struggling at 29 for three after the follow-on, trailing by a mammoth total of 526 runs.