Samoa's Visser hits record 39 runs in single over

Samoan cricketer Darius Visser group a caller men's Twenty20 International grounds erstwhile he deed 39 runs successful a azygous complete during a 2026 T20 World Cup location qualifier connected Tuesday.

The 28-year-old faced Vanuatu seamer Nalin Nipiko successful nan 15th complete and batted clear of nan bound statement six times. He faced 3 nary balls pinch 1 dot shot successful nan 9 deliveries.

Visser vanished pinch 132 disconnected 62 balls and his innings included 14 sixes and 5 fours arsenic he became nan first Samoan to deed an world century.

Samoa posted 174 and Visser past took a wicket arsenic they restricted Vanuatu to 164-9 to seal a 10-run triumph astatine nan Garden Oval No 2 successful Apia, Samoa.

The erstwhile men's T20I grounds for astir runs successful an complete was 36, nan first of which was achieved by India's Yuvraj Singh hitting six consecutive sixes against England's Stuart Broad during nan inaugural T20 World Cup successful 2007.

Others to person scored 36 runs successful an complete see West Indies' brace Kieron Pollard and Nicholas Pooran, Nepal's Dipendra Singh Airee, and India's Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh who mixed for 36 against Afghanistan earlier this year.