Club player smashes six sixes in successive overs

Club player smashes six sixes in successive oversImage source, Rugeley Cricket ClubImage caption, Scott Gretton's knock of 150 included 19 sixesByChris HarbyBBC Sport, West MidlandsPublished13 minutes agoA club cricketer has said he had no idea he might have been making history by hitting six sixes in successive overs.Scott Gretton achieved the remarkable feat for Rugeley Second XI during their South Staffordshire County League match at Springvale Seconds on Saturday.The 45-year-old mechanic smashed 150 off 51 balls, with 19 sixes and six fours at a strike-rate of 294, to help his side win the Division Three match by 156 runs."The first week of the season I got a nice golden duck - lbw - which after six months off is always the best way to start the season," he told BBC Sport."Then I got 20-odd the second week and then 30-odd last week, so it was going well and then on Saturday it came off the bat just lovely. It was my day."Gretton went in to bat in the fourth over with his side struggling on 7-2, and played himself in with six dots before getting off the mark with a maximum.He then began to pick up the pace, plundering 20 runs off successive overs to race to 43 off 21 balls before the real carnage began in the 10th over."It wasn't an intentional thing," said Gretton, who has played for Rugeley for more than 30 years."They just kept bowling it in the same place, and didn't learn until I'd probably got about 120, 130 that maybe they should change the length a little bit."'I hit a couple on to the Matalan roof'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.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 incredibl...