Samoan batter Darius Visser authored cricket history at the East Asia-Pacific Regional Qualifier for the upcoming Twenty20 World Cup in Apia. In only his third appearance representing his country in the shortened format, Visser blasted a monstrous 132 runs off 62 deliveries to set a new T20I record. The 28-year-old left all spectators astonished during his breathtaking assault of an overbowled by Nalin Nipiko of the opposition. With six mighty maximums cleared out of the stadium, Visser accumulated a staggering 39 runs in that over alone.
Never before had a team amassed over 36 in a single rotation of the bowling crease, and only three players had ever launched half a dozen sixes in an over across men's international T20 play prior. The prior mark for most runs off an over was 36 by both Yuvraj Singh in 2007 and Kieron Pollard just last year, feats that Visser simply obliterated with his unprecedented fireworks at the crease.
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T20I Records for Most Runs in an Over Till 2024
Previously, there were five instances of a team scoring 36 runs in an over in men's T20Is. Yuvraj Singh of India was the first batter to achieve this feat, hitting six sixes off England's Stuart Broad in the 2007 T20 World Cup. Kieron Pollard of the West Indies matched this achievement against Sri Lanka's Akila Dananjaya in 2021. Nepal's Dipendra Singh Airee also accomplished this earlier this year. Here is a list of the top 10 T20I Most Runs in an Over Till 2024:
| Runs | Players | Bowler | Match | Venue | Date |
| 39 | Darius Visser (666nb6nbnb66) | Nalin Nipiko | Samoa v Vanuatu | Apia (No 2) | 20/08/2024 |
| 36 | Yuvraj Singh (666666) | SCJ Broad | India v England | Durban | 19/09/2007 |
| 36 | KA Pollard (666666) | A Dananjaya | West Indies v Sri Lanka | Antigua | 03/03/2021 |
| 36 | Rohit Sharma (4nb661), Rinku Singh (666) | Karim Janat | India v Afghanistan | Bengaluru | 17/01/2024 |
| 36 | Dipendra Singh Airee (666666) | Kamran Khan | Nepal v Qatar | Al Amerat | 13/04/2024 |
| 36 | Nicholas Pooran (6nb4wide4lb4466) | Azmatullah Omarzai | West Indies v Afghanistan | Gros Islet | 17/06/2024 |
| 34 | TL Seifert (6641), LRPL Taylor (nb466) | S Dube | New Zealand v India | Mount Maunganui | 02/02/2020 |
| 34 | RP Burl (666646) | Nasum Ahmed | Zimbabwe v Bangladesh | Harare | 02/08/2022 |
| 33 | JM Bairstow (66widewide1) MM Ali (666) | AL Phehlukwayo | England v South Africa | Bristol | 27/07/2022 |
| 33 | Zubaidi Zulkifle (1nb14nb1) Syed Aziz (nb1wide26widewide1lb46) | Nasrulla Rana | Malaysia v Hong Kong | Kuala Lumpur | 19/09/2023 |
The other two instances of scoring 36 runs in an over that did not feature six sixes occurred when the West Indies, with Nicholas Pooran, achieved this against Afghanistan in the 2024 T20 World Cup, and when India's Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh combined to score 36 against Afghanistan, also in 2024.
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Darius Visser is the first Samoa batter to score a T20I century and hit 14 sixes, the fifth-highest number in a men’s T20I innings. His score of 132, which accounted for 75.86% of Samoa's total of 174 runs, is the highest percentage of runs scored by a batter in a team's innings. The second-highest score for Samoa against Vanuatu was 16 by their captain, Caleb Jasmat. Visser's percentage surpasses the previous record of 75.1% set by Australia's Aaron Finch.
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