A term that is sometimes used for oceanic crust rocks is sima, which is short for magnesium silicate, a common component of these rocks. Another term for these undersea igneous rocks is mafic, which comes from the fact that they are high in magnesium and iron. Basalt and gabbro are examples of mafic rocks.
The current record is held by Briton Corporal of Horse (CoH) Craig Harrison, of the UKâs Household Cavalry, who recorded a 2,475 m (2,707 yd) shot (confirmed by GPS) in November 2009, also during the War in Afghanistan, in which he hit two Taliban insurgents consecutively.
His shot went upto 119 metres. thats the longest six till date. The biggest six ever hit in the history of cricket was when Shahid Afridi slogged one in the Pakistan-South African match at Melbourne in 2007, and it went 158 metres. Some say that his biggest was his 230 metre six, but the instruments failed to work that day and so malfunctioned. Alpha Â· 3 years ago.