Nicholas Pooran of the West Indies makes history with 36 runs in one over in a brutal batting assault against Afghanistan.
Nicholas Pooran equalled the T20I record for most runs in an playing his part in a 36-run over off Azmatullah Omarzai in the T20 World Cup against Afghanistan.
Nicholas Pooran etched his name in the record books by playing his part in the most expensive game in the history of T20I cricket.
In the final Group C match of the T20 World Cup against Afghanistan at the Daren Sammy Stadium in St Lucia, Pooran launched a brutal onslaught against Afghanistan bowler Azmatullah Omarzai, who scored an astonishing 36 runs in one over.
Pooran, who also became the first West Indies to reach 2000 T20I runs, created history by surpassing Chris Gayle’s record for most sixes in T20Is in West Indies, hitting eight sixes overnight. Pooran now has 128 sixes, four more than Gayle’s previous record.
Pooran wasted no time as he hit the bowling for a six in the first ball. Azmatullah followed it up with a no-ball and Pooran hit it for a boundary. The pressure on the bowler increased as Pooran was run out, but it was a free hit.
The bowlers looked tired in attack as Azmatullah made four more runs. Pooran was somehow in the mood when the Afghan bowler fell for a four followed by 2 more sixes. That meant 36 runs from one over as the West Indies reached their highest-ever power play in a T20 World Cup with 93 runs.
Omarzai’s run included 10 extras, 5 wides, no ball, and four-leg credit. runs Pooran’s attack earned him a place in the elite list, which also features three Indian players.
West Indies’ Nicholas Pooran bats against Afghanistan during an ICC Men’s T20 World Cu
The list now includes Nicholas Pooran
Yuvraj Singh became the first-ever batsman to score 36 runs when he faced England’s Stuart Broad and hit 6 sixes in the semi-final. The list also included Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh, who scored 36 runs against Afghanistan’s Karim Janat.
Most runs in T20Is in an over
Yuvraj Singh (IND) v Stuart Broad (ENG), Durban, 2007 – 36