Basseterre: Watching the ball disappear over the boundary ropes six times in an over is an experience which breeds a philosophic acceptance of fate in the unfortunate bowler.

Twenty-two years ago, former India captain Ravi Shastri deposited Tilak Raj for six sixes in an Indian domestic match, while the most famous example remains Sir Garfield Sobers’ six-in-a-row off Nash for Nottinghamshire against Glamorgan in 1968.

Sobers was dismissive of a record he considers to have little enduring significance. “It makes me feel that that’s the only thing I’ve done in the history of cricket,” he said in an interview with a website.

“It wasn’t really good cricket, six sixes are not good cricket... It’s not the kind of cricket you want to teach youngsters.”

For left-arm mediumpacer Nash, it was just another day.

“I don’t reflect on it ever as a bad thing,” he told a newspaper. “The moment is with Sobers and not much to do with me.”

Tilak Raj on Saturday sympathised with Daan van Bunge. “It will feel bad,” he said. “I felt terrible back then. All I can say is that it’s destiny”. (REUTERS)