Watch: Sherfane Rutherford smashes five sixes in an over during ILT20 2023

Sherfane Rutherford is known for his six-hitting skills in T20 cricket. He has played some game-changing innings over the years. Meanwhile, in the ongoing International League T20 (ILT20), the left-hander is playing for Desert Vipers. In the game against Dubai Capitals on February 2, Rutherford hit five sixes against two-time World Cup winner for India, Yusuf Pathan.

Pathan is playing for the Capitals in the tournament. Meanwhile, he bowled the 14th over of the Vipers’ innings. The left-hander hit five sixes that gave momentum to the Red Brigade. Before this, the scorecard read 93/4 in 13.1 overs. Sam Billings, who was watching at the other end, had taken a single on the first ball of the same over.

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Talking about the game, the home team, Dubai won the toss and bowled first. They had a great start with the ball as Fred Klassen, Yusuf Pathan, and Adam Zampa shared four wickets among them. Netherlands international Klassen took two wickets while Pathan and Zampa shared one each. At 76/4, the Vipers batters, Rutherford and Billings scored the fifties each and stitched a partnership of 80 runs. After them, Tom Curran scored a nine-ball 17 and helped the team reach 182/7.

In reply, the Capitals failed to chase down the total and were restricted to 160/7, losing the game by 22 runs.

Five sixes from Sherfane Rutherford took the game away from us: Robin Uthappa

“Our coach has given me the role of giving the team the best finish I can and it’s good that I’m carrying out the role well. I hope I can continue performing for the team in the rest of the games, ” Rutheford said

“The five sixes from Sherfane Rutherford definitely took the momentum away from us. We dropped a catch of Sam Billings just before that over. I thought we did a really good job to restrict the Vipers to the score they were at before that over,” Robin Uthappa said.