HISTORY CREATED! Samoa's Darius Visser enters record books by smashing 39 runs in an over
Samoa's Darius Visser enters record books with 39 runs in an over
On Tuesday (Aug 20), Samoa batter Darius Visserbroke the men's T20I record for most runs in an over, smashing 39 runs in six balls,against Vanuatu duringthe T20 World Cup East Asia-Pacific Region Qualifier inApia. As a result of his fireworks, Visser finished with 132 off 62 deliveries and starred in his side's narrow win. In what was just his third T20I, Visser became the first centurion from Samoa and the fourth batter, overall, to hit 6-sixes in an over.
How it all panned out
The 28-year-old Visser broke therecord during the 15th over of Samoa's innings, hitting medium pacer Nalin Nipiko over the deep midwicket boundary in the first three deliveries, which was followed by a front-foot no-ball. The free-hit also met with the same fate, being hit for six over the leg side. After that, the next ball was a dot before Nipiko oversteppedfor the second time and then bowled another no-ball when Visser cleared the fine leg fence for another maximum.The last ballwas a low full toss outside off stump and Visser, who was timing it with perfection, flicked it over deep square leg to smash 39 runsin anover.
Previous instances
Notably, before Visser's onslaught,there have been five such instances of a team scoring 36 runs in an over in men's T20Is. India's Yuvraj Singh was the first-ever batter to hit six sixes in an over, during India's Super 8 game versus England, in Durban, during the inaugural T20 World Cup in South Africa. In 2021, West Indies' Kieron Pollard repeated the feat against Sri Lanka's Akila Dananjaya whereasNepal's Dipendra Singh Airee achieved it earlier this year.
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The other two instances of 36-run overs also came recently, both in this year, however, they did not contain six sixes. One came when West Indies - thanks to power-hitter Nicholas Pooran - scored 36 against Afghanistan during the recently-heldT20 World Cup whereas the other came courtesy of a combined effort from India'sRohit Sharma and Rinku Singh. The duo added36 runs in an overduring a T20I againstAfghanistanin Jan 2024.
Talking more about Visser, the right-handeralso became the batterscoring the highest percentage of runsin an innings (132 out of 174; i.e. 75.86%). Courtesy of him, Samoa edged past Vanuatu by 10 runs after restricting them to 164/9.