The West Indies team have now broken several records during their group stage game against West Indies during the T20 World Cup 2024 match at the Daren Sammy National Cricket Stadium, Gros Islet, in Saint Lucia.
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One of the many records broken during the clash at Saint Lucia happened when Nicholas Pooran helped the West Indies score 36 runs in the fourth over off Afghanistan's Azmatullah Omarzai. Pooran scored 26 runs himself while the rest of the runs came via extras.
36 runs by Pooran and West Indies is the joint-highest runs scored in an over by a team in T20 internationals. The Sporting News lists the most runs scored in an over, in T20 internationals history.
List of most runs scored in an over in T20I internationals history
Nicholas Pooran helped West Indies scored 36 runs in an over against Afghanistan, equaling three other 36-run overs in T20 international history.
West Indies' Kieron Pollard also scored 36 runs against Sri Lanka in 2021, off the bowling of off-spinner Akila Dhananjaya.
| Player | Runs | Match | Bowler | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darius Visser (6, 6, 6, NB, 0, 6, 6NB, 6) | 39 | Samoa vs Vanuatu | Nalin Nipiko | 2024 |
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Yuvraj Singh (6,6,6,6,6,6) |
36 | India vs England | Stuart Broad | 2007 |
| Kieron Pollard (6,6,6,6,6,6) | 36 | West Indies vs Sri Lanka | Akila Dananjaya | 2021 |
| Nicholas Pooran (6nb,4wd,4lb,4,4,6,6) | 36 | West Indies vs Afghanistan | Azmatullah Omarzai | 2024 |
| Rohit Sharma (4nb,6,6,1) & Rinku Singh (6,6,6) | 36 | India vs Afghanistan | Karim Janat | 2024 |
| Dipendra Singh Airee (6,6,6,6,6,6) | 36 | Nepal vs Qatar | Kamran Khan | 2024 |
| Tim Seifert (6,6,4,1) & Ross Taylor (4nb,6,6) | 34 | New Zealand vs India | Shivam Dube | 2020 |
| Ryan Burl (6,6,6,6,4,6) | 34 | Zimbabwe vs Bangladesh | Nasum Ahmed | 2022 |
| Jonny Bairstow (6,6,wd,1wd) & Moeen Ali (6,6,6) | 33 | England vs South Africa | Andile Phehlukwayo | 2022 |
| Zubaidi Zulkifle (1nb,1,4nb,1) & Syed Aziz (nb,1wd,2,6,wd,wd,1lb,4,6) | 33 | Malaysia vs Hong Kong | Nasrulla Rana | 2023 |
| Andries Gous (wd,6,4wd,nb,1nb,2,6,4) & Aaron Jones (6,wd,1) | 33 | USA vs Canada | Jeremy Gordon | 2024 |
The most famous among the four 36-run overs is without a doubt, India's 36 runs against England during the 2007 World Cup match in Durban, when Yuvraj Singh smashed a record six-sixes in the over, off Stuart Broad's bowling.
Earlier this year, Dipendra Singh Airee smashed six-sixes in an over during an ACC Premier T20 Cup clash against Qatar, as he became the third ever batter to achieve this feat.
The list also includes Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh combining to score 36-runs in an over, when they played against Afghanistan in a T20I match at Bengaluru, in January, early this year (2024).