Dubai: So far, there have been three players who have hit sixes in six balls in an over. India’s Yuvraj Singh, West Indies’ Kieron Pollard, Nepal’s Dipendra Singh. A fourth person was added to their list. Darius Visser. The Samoan player shone with a top performance in the East Asia-Pacific Twenty20 World Cup sub-regional Group A match. Darius Visser, who is 28, scored 36 runs in one innings. Moreover, as he scored three runs without another ball, a new record was also created as the highest number of runs in the over.
🚨 World record created in Men’s T20 tier 1 over 39 runs
Darius Visser scored 39 runs in a match between Samoa and Vanuatu
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He scored 39 runs in one over again against Vanuatu’s Pacific Islander Nalin Nipiko. While Visser hit six sixes in this round, Nipiko bowled another three no-balls leading to a record performance.
Visser scored 132 runs in 62 balls including 14 sixes. Visser was also the first player to score a century for Samoa in Twenty20 cricket. Samoa scored 174 runs in the allotted innings. Batting in reply, Wanwatu struggled but could only manage 164 runs for the loss of nine wickets.
2024-08-20 16:47:00
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