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Sobers went six crazy in 1968.
By Carl Markham, PA Sport
South Africa's Herschelle Gibbs booked his place in cricketing history by becoming the first player to hit six sixes in an over of international one-day cricket.
Gibbs hammered Holland's Daan van Bunge to all parts of Warner Park in St Kitts in a World Cup group A match.
The feat has only been achieved twice before - both in first-class cricket - and here we detail those incidents.
Sir Garry Sobers, 1968
The West Indies all-rounder became the first man in cricket history to record the landmark playing for Nottinghamshire against Glamorgan in Swansea.
Sobers took a liking to the slow-left arm bowling of the unfortunate Malcolm Nash, who saw his first two deliveries disappear into the stands of the Cricketer's Inn.
The third went into the pavilion enclosure and the fourth was sent over the scoreboard.
A fifth was driven straight and although Roger Davis caught it he fell over the boundary in the process.
On the last delivery wicketkeeper Eifion Jones famously bet Sobers that he could not make it six out of six.
Sobers did just that however, hitting the ball out of the ground into a nearby street.
Ravi Shastri, 1985
Shastri followed Sobers into the record books playing for Bombay at home to Baroda in the Ranji Trophy.
On this occasion another slow left-armer Tilak Raj was on the receiving end at the Wankhede Stadium.
What made Shastri's achievement more special was it was made en route to the fastest double-hundred in first-class cricket, exactly 200 not out made in 113 minutes.
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