Test cricket's 1st six was hit 21 years after the 1st match
The first six in international cricket was hit by Australian batsman Joe Darling on January 14, 1898, almost 21 years after the first Test was played. Back then, a six had to be hit out of the ground as hits over the boundary counted as five. Darling went on to hit two more sixes in his innings, during the Ashes.