Most Runs in an Over in T20 Cricket, Check List with Bowler Name

Samoan batsman Darius Visser has made cricket history at the upcoming East Asia Pacific Qualifiers for the Twenty20 World Cup in Apia. In just his third appearance for his country in the shortened format, Visser smashed a staggering 132 runs in 62 deliveries, setting a new T20I record. The 28-year-old stunned all spectators by striking back at a high ball bowled by his opponent Nalin Nipiko. Visser hit six stunning maximums in the stadium, amassing a staggering 39 runs in this over alone.

Never before has a team scored more than 36 runs in a single over and previously in men’s international T20 matches, only three players have hit six sixes in a single over. The previous record for most runs scored in a single over was 36 by Yuvraj Singh in 2007 and Kieron Pollard last year, but Visser easily broke that record with his unprecedented bowling prowess.

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Previously, there have been five occasions in men’s T20I matches where a team has scored 36 runs in a single over. India’s Yuvraj Singh was the first batsman to achieve this feat when he hit six sixes against England’s Stuart Broad in the 2007 T20 World Cup. West Indies’ Kieron Pollard also achieved the same feat against Sri Lanka’s Akila Dananjaya in 2021. Nepal’s Dipendra Singh Airee also achieved this feat earlier this year. Here is a list of the top 10 players who have scored the most runs in T20I matches till 2024:

run

Player

Pitcher

match

Venue

date

XXXIX

Darius Visser (666nb6nbnb66)

Nalin Nipiko

Samoa vs Vanuatu

Apia (No. 2)

August 20, 2024

Thirty-six

Yuvraj Singh (666666)

SCJ Broad

India vs England

Durban

September 19, 2007

Thirty-six

KA Pollard(666666)

Tananjaya

West Indies v Sri Lanka

Antigua

March 3, 2021

Thirty-six

Rohit Sharma (4nb661), Rinku Singh (666)

Karim Janat

India vs Afghanistan

Bangalore

January 17, 2024

Thirty-six

Dipendra Singh Ally (666666)

Kamran Khan

Nepal vs Qatar

Al Amerat

April 13, 2024

Thirty-six

Nicholas Plan (6nb4wide4lb4466)

Azmatullah Omarzai

West Indies v Afghanistan

Gros Islet

June 17, 2024

XXXIV

TL Seifert (6641), LRPL Taylor (nb466)

Dube

New Zealand v India

Mount Maunganui

February 2, 2020

XXXIV

RP Burr(666646)

Nasoum Ahmed

Zimbabwe vs Bangladesh

Harare

February 8, 2022

33

JM Bairstow (66widewide1) MM Ali (666)

Perukwayo

England v South Africa

Bristol

July 27, 2022

33

Zubaidi Zukif (1nb14nb1) Syed Aziz (nb1wide26widewide1lb46)

Nasrallah Rana

Malaysia vs Hong Kong

Kuala Lumpur

September 19, 2023

The other two occasions when 36 runs were scored in an over without six sixes were when West Indies under Nicholas Pooran achieved this against Afghanistan in the 2024 T20 World Cup and when India’s Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh teamed up to score 36 runs against Afghanistan in the 2024 T20 World Cup.

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Darius Visser was the first Samoan batsman to score a hundred in a T20I match, hitting 14 sixes, the fifth-highest number of sixes in a men’s T20I match. His score of 132 runs accounted for 75.86% of Samoa’s total score of 174 runs, the highest percentage ever scored by a batsman in the team. The second-highest score for Samoa against Vanuatu was 16 by captain Caleb Jasmat. Visser’s percentage surpassed the previous record of 75.1% set by Aaron Finch of Australia.

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