Samoa's Visser hits record 39 runs in single over

Samoan cricketer Darius Visser set a new men's Twenty20 International record when he hit 39 runs in a single over during a 2026 T20 World Cup regional qualifier on Tuesday.

The 28-year-old faced Vanuatu seamer Nalin Nipiko in the 15th over and batted clear of the boundary rope six times. He faced three no balls with one dot ball in the nine deliveries.

Visser finished with 132 off 62 balls and his innings included 14 sixes and five fours as he became the first Samoan to hit an international century.

Samoa posted 174 and Visser then took a wicket as they restricted Vanuatu to 164-9 to seal a 10-run win at the Garden Oval No 2 in Apia, Samoa.

The previous men's T20I record for most runs in an over was 36, the first of which was achieved by India's Yuvraj Singh hitting six consecutive sixes against England's Stuart Broad during the inaugural T20 World Cup in 2007.

Others to have scored 36 runs in an over include West Indies' pair Kieron Pollard and Nicholas Pooran, Nepal's Dipendra Singh Airee, and India's Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh who combined for 36 against Afghanistan earlier this year.