How many sixes did that guy hit through out his career? I say, he got lucky that day. He hit the ball very high and there was enough wind to carry it over the pavilion.
We simply don't know those conditions (in which he hit that mighty six) and attributing all that to his skill is not accurate nor fair. Let's recreate the conditions, ball speed, wind speed, and give that tooth-pick 3 pounder to McCullum, Gayle, or Morgan and see where the ball lands.
Albert Trott got lucky. There. I said it. He couldn't consistently hit that big six and I wonder how many sixes did he hit thru his career.
I tend to agree. If it wasn't documented, I would have put the hit over the Lord's pavilion down to myth to be honest. But, it does appear that he did actually manage it which raises the question of what he was able to bring that no-one else has since.
Wikipedia is a little vague about the timing and details, we just know that Trott made the shot off a delivery from a chap called Monty Noble. This is what we know from Trott's own memories:
"Noble was bowling, and sending the balls down in pretty good style, and at last I struck at one," Trott told Boys' Own a few years later. "I was not very sure about it; and the next thing I saw was the ball looking like a pea in the air, and I learned then that it had just touched a chimney and nearly gone out of the ground."
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