World has seen a large number of great batsman. But to hit 6 sixes in a single over is not a task every batsman can do. History is witnessed that only a few batsman till now have got this achievement. Some of the batsman who set this trend are as follows.
Garfield Sobers was the first man to hit 6 sixes in a single six-ball over in first-class cricket. The match was played on 31 August 1968. Malcolm Nash was the bowler against whom Sobers hit the sixes and set a record in Cricket history.
On 10 January 1985, Ravi Shastri set the score and hit 6 sixes in an over in first class cricket and became the second batsman who did this in first class cricket. 
In Cricket World Cup 2007, in a match between South Africa and the Netherlands, Herschelle Gibbs became the third in this list and first person to hit six sixes off an over in a One Day International match. The over was bowled by leg-spinner Daan van Bunge.
With the start of T20 matches, cricket became faster for batsmen. And in such a match of T20 World Cup 2007, Indian all-rounder Yuvraj Singh hit six sixes in an over and became the first batsman who hit 6 sixes in any T20 match. Yuvraj hit the sixes to the English bowler Stuart Broad.
Worcestershire's Ross Whiteley hit six sixes on six legal deliveries plus one wide to take the total number of runs in that over to 37 to bowler Karl Carver in T20 Blast match that played on July 23, 2017.
Although, Afghani Cricket team is not in top of cricket teams but the Afghani Batsman Hazratullah Zazai, came into this list by hitting 6 sixes in an over. He also become the third batsman to do so in T20 match.
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