Samoan batter’s 39-run over eclipses Yuvraj Singh’s 17-year-old T20 record

Samoa batter Darius Visser shattered former Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh’s 17-year-old record by smashing 39 runs in an over during a T20 match against Vanuatu. The sizzling innings was played during a T20 World Cup East Asia-Pacific Region Qualifier in Apia on Tuesday.

Visser scored 132 runs off 62 balls in the match, breaking and making records in the shortest format of the game.

India’s Singh, instrumental in his team’s T20 World Cup win in the inaugural edition in 2007, previously held the record of smashing 36 runs off an over, when he played England in the aforementioned tournament.

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

It was just the fourth time the world witnessed a batsman smashing six sixes in a T20 over.

Yuvraj Singh was first man to set the record of scoring 36 runs in an over.

However, apart from Singh, West Indies icon Kieron Pollard equaled the feat against Sri Lanka’s Akila Dananjaya in 2021.

Nepal’s Dipendra Singh Airee did the same with his willow earlier this year.

Nicholas Pooran of West Indies also scored 36 runs in an over in 2024 against Afghanistan.