The East Asia-Pacific Sub-Regional Qualifier A for the T20 World Cup witnessed the breaking of an all-time record on Tuesday. 39 runs were scored in an over in the match between Samoa and Vanuatu, setting the record for most runs in a T20I over.
Samoan batsman Darius Visser hit six sixes in an over off Vanuatu spinner Nalin Nipiko, while the bowler bowled three no-balls and set a new international record.
This record surpasses the records of 36 races held by Yuvraj Singh, Kieron Pollard, Nicholas Pooran, Dipendra Singh Airee and Rohit Sharma/Rinku Singh.
Former Indian cricketer Yuvraj hit six sixes in an over to amass 36 runs in an over against Stuart Broad in the 2007 T20 World Cup, and Kieron Pollard hit six maximums against Akila Dananjaya in 2021 to match it for the first time.
Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh combined to hit 35 runs off Karim Janat, who hit an extra to take the score to 36 in a T20I in January 2024. Nepal’s Dipendra Singh Airee hit six sixes off Qatar’s Kamran Khan in a T20I in April 2024, while the last incident before this belonged to Nicholas Pooran, who smashed 26 runs, along with 10 extras off Azmatullah Omarzai in a T20I in June 2024.
Coming back to Samoa vs Vanuatu’s record 39-run effort, batsman Visser cleared the ropes in six balls out of nine (including three no-balls). He hit Nipiko for three sixes off the first three balls, followed by a no-ball in which no runs came off the bat. 19 runs off the first three balls. On the fourth legal delivery, Visser hit another six, followed by a fifth no-run delivery. The bowler bowled two more no-balls, one of which was a six before being smashed on his last legal delivery for another maximum.
It is noteworthy that Visser did not get the three extra runs as no-ball extra runs are not credited to the batsman’s score. For this reason, Visser has hit 36 runs and not 39. However, the no-ball runs and the open runs are added to the bowler’s and team’s score, bringing the accumulated runs from the over to 39.
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