Pollard hits six sixes in an over as Windies beat Sri Lanka

[ASFN Admin]

Sri Lanka leg-spinner Akila Dananjaya experienced the precipitous highs and lows of Twenty20 cricket when he claimed a hat trick which included the wicket of West Indies star Chris Gayle for a first-ball duck, then was hit for six sixes in an over by Keiran Pollard on Wednesday in the first international in Antigua. The West Indies won the match by four wickets with 41 balls in hand, finishing with 134-6. Dananjaya became only the 15th player and the fourth Sri Lankan to take a T20 international hat trick when he dismissed Evin Lewis (28), Gayle and Nicholas Pooran (0) with consecutive deliveries in the fourth over.

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