Darius Visser hit six sixes in an over as Samoa set a brand new males’s T20 Worldwide file of 39 runs in a over throughout a 2026 T20 World Cup regional qualifier on Tuesday.
The 28-year-old confronted Vanuatu seamer Nalin Nipiko within the fifteenth over and cleared the boundary rope six instances. He confronted three no-balls with one dot-ball within the 9 deliveries.
Visser completed with 132 off 62 balls together with 14 sixes and 5 fours as he grew to become the primary Samoan to hit a world century.
Samoa posted 174 and Visser then took a wicket as they restricted Vanuatu to 164-9 to seal a 10-run win on the Backyard Oval No 2 in Apia, Samoa.
The earlier males’s T20I file for many runs in an over was 36, first achieved by India’s Yuvraj Singh hitting six consecutive sixes in opposition to England’s Stuart Broad throughout the inaugural T20 World Cup in 2007.
Others to have scored 36 runs in an over embody West Indies’ pair Kieron Pollard and Nicholas Pooran, Nepal’s Dipendra Singh Airee, and India’s Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh who mixed for 36 in opposition to Afghanistan earlier this 12 months.
