Cricket: Gibbs hits 6 sixes on the trot

South Africa's Herschelle Gibbs made history on Friday when he hit 6 sixes in an over in his team's ICC Cricket World Cup match against the Netherlands.

Gibbs became the first man to achieve the feat in a limited overs match, and only the third in history in all forms of cricket, when he launched into Dutch slow left-armer Daan van Bunge in the 30th over.

The brutal big-hitting took Gibbs from 32 at the start of the over to 68 by the end of it.

Van Bunge at least had the minor consolation of helping to dismiss his tormentor when he held a catch in the deep in the next over off captain Luuk van Troost.

Gibbs eventually went for 72 with four fours and seven sixes having faced just 40 balls.