Darius Visser surpassed india Former all rounder Yuvraj Singh iconic feat of six sixes that saws him amaas 36 runs in a single over off England Stuart broad in the inaugural ICC —T20 World Cup in 2007
Samoa wicket keeper batter “Darius Visser” rewrote history by shattering the record of scoring the most runs in a single over in men’s T20I. During samoas match against Vanuatu in ongoing ICC men’s T20 world cup regional East Asia Pacific Qualifier A event on Tuesday, Visser garnered 39 runs in a single over at garden oval. No.2 in apia . In the 15th over of the qualifier a match, visser smacked six towering sixes and was helped with three no balls from Vanuatu seamer “nalin nipiko”
He surpassed India’ s former all rounder yuvraj singh iconic feat of six sixes that saw him amass 36 runs in a single over of England’s Stuart broad in the inaugural ICC T20 world cup in 2007 and more recent efforts from Kieron Pollard “2021-36 runs,” Nicholas poorn “2024 – 36 runs ,” Dipendra Singh airee ( 2024 – 36 runs ).
Visser smashed three consecutive sixes from the three deliveries of nipiko over . He once again cleared the boundary rope from the fourth legal delivery of the over to propel samoa to a score of hundreds.
Nipiko try to dampen Visser spirits by producing a dot ball from the fifth delivery of the over . but the 28 year old continued to ride high on the momentum and smashed a maximum from the third no ball of the over to add icing on the cake he finished the over with another six to ensure he broke the record and become the first player from samoa to score in a century in international cricket.
Visser impressive display was laced with a total of 14 sixes, four short of the most hit by one better in a men’s T20I .
Has impact performance of 132 to from just 62 delivery was enough to ensure samo register their second victory at the event. their triumph kept their hope of qualifying for the next edition of the T20 world cup in 2026 alive.
Visser finished with 14 sixes and five fours.
The previous record for the most runs in T20 over was 36 with India Shivraj Singh West Indies Kieron Pollard and Nepal all rounder dipendra Singh airee all having struck six sixes in an over.
Yuvraj hit England start broad for six sixes in an over in 2017-20 world cup match pollard meted out the same treatment to Sri Lanka’s Akhila Dhananjaya in 2021 with airee becoming the third batsman to achieve the feat in April.
The record in one day international is 36 , score by South Africa s Herschel Gibbs and US batsman jaskaran Malhotra.