HISTORY CREATED! Samoa’s Darius Visser enters record books by smashing 39 runs in an over

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khelja|20-08-2024

On Tuesday (Aug 20), Samoa batter Darius Visser broke the men's T20I record for most runs in an over, smashing 39 runs in six balls, against Vanuatu during the T20 World Cup East Asia-Pacific Region Qualifier in Apia.
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 the record 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 overstepped for the second time and then bowled another no-ball, when Visser cleared the fine leg fence for another maximum. The last ball was a low full toss outside off stump and Visser, who was timing it with perfection, flicked over deep square leg to smash 39 runs in an over.   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 whereas Nepal's Dipendra Singh Airee achieved it earlier this year. The other two instances of 36-run overs also came recently, both in this year, however, it does not contain six sixes.
One came when West Indies - thanks to power-hitter Nicholas Pooran - scored 36 against Afghanistan during the recently-held T20 World Cup whereas the other came courtesy of a combined effort from India's Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh. The duo added 36 runs in an over during a T20I against Afghanistan in Jan 2024. Talking more about Visser, the right-hander also became the batter scoring the highest percentage of runs in an innings (132 out of 174; i.e.
75.86%). Courtesy of him, Samoa edged past Vanuatu by 10 runs after restricting them for 164/9.
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