<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">India batsman Ruturaj Gaikwad on Monday smashed an unprecedented seven successive sixes in one over of a 50-overs domestic match -- courtesy of a no-ball.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Gaikwad, who has played one ODI and nine Twenty20 matches for India, hammered 42 runs for Maharashtra in a seven-delivery over against Uttar Pradesh.</div><div><br></div><div>The quarter-final of the Vijay Hazare Trophy -- India's inter-state 50-over competition -- took place at the world's biggest cricket stadium, in Ahmedabad.</div><div><br></div><div>Gaikwad is the first player to hit seven sixes in one over in a List A category match.</div><div><br></div><div>But Lee Germon of New Zealand holds the all-time List A record with eight sixes in a bizarre 77-run over of multiple deliberate wides and no-balls in a 1990 Shell Trophy match, when Wellington intentionally gave away runs to try to tempt Canterbury into recklessness.</div><div><br></div><div>Gaikwad, 25, finished unbeaten on 220 as his team made 330-5.</div><div><br></div><div>Left-arm spinner Shiva Singh was on the receiving end of his six-hitting blitz in the 49th over.</div><div><br></div><div>Gaikwad made his T20 international debut last year after a sterling performance as an attacking opener with Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League.</div><div><br></div><div>It is the second record by an Indian batsman in as many weeks, after Tamil Nadu's N Jagadeesan smashed 277 against Arunachal Pradesh, the highest ever score in the 50-over format, surpassing the 268 of England's Alistair Brown against Glamorgan in 2002. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>