Visser sets new T20I record with 39-run over

History was created at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Sub Regional East Asia-Pacific Qualifier ‘A’ event on Tuesday as Darius Visser helped break the record for most runs from one over of a Men’s T20I contest.

Visser smashed six sixes and was helped with three no balls from Vanuatu seamer Nalin Nipiko at the Garden Oval No.2 in Apia, Samoa, as a total of 39 runs were scored from the 15th over of the contest.

The 39 runs conceded from the over was the most in the history of Men’s T20I, surpassing the famous 36-run feat achieved by Yuvraj Singh at the inaugural ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in 2007 and more recent efforts from Kieron Pollard (2021), Nicholas Pooran (2024), Dipendra Singh Airee (2024) and Rohit Sharma/Rinku Singh (2024).

Visser smashed sixes from the first three deliveries of Nipiko’s over and then cleared the boundary from the fourth legal delivery of the over to help bring up the hundred for his country.   (ICC)