WI vs. AFG: Nicholas Pooran matches Rohit and Yuvraj’s T20 cricket record

Tuesday, June 18, at the Darren Sammy International Stadium in St. Lucia, was the final group stage match of the 2024 ICC T20 World Cup. Hosts West Indies defeated visiting Afghanistan by an overwhelming 104 runs.

At the 2024 T20 World Cup, explosive batsman Nicholas Pooran of the West Indies was spotted shattering numerous records in their Group C match against Afghanistan.

In T20 cricket, explosive hitters Johnson Charles and Nicholas Pooran have tied the record for most runs in an over. Nicholas Pooran of the West Indies scored 36 runs in an over off the bowling of Azmatullah Omarzai of Afghanistan during the first innings. When Azmatullah Omarzai entered the game to bowl the fourth over of the innings, this took place.
After hitting a six off the opening ball of the fourth over, Nicholas Pooran hit the next no ball for a boundary. Five runs occurred after the subsequent ball went wide for a boundary.

Nicholas Pooran got bowled but was not out while the free hit went on. With the third delivery, the bowler again gave up four runs through the leg bye as he stammered. With a boundary and two sixes off the final three balls, the record runs were achieved. That means that in one over, the West Indies batsmen scored 36 runs. In a T20 World Cup, West Indies scored 93 runs, their highest Powerplay total ever.

In his ten overs, Azmatullah Omarzai had four leg-by-runs, five wides, a no-ball, and ten extras.

36-run T20 match record between Stuart Broad (England) and Yuvraj Singh (India), Durban, 2007 36 – West Indies’ Kieron Pollard against Sri Lanka’s Akila Dananjaya, Coolidge, 2021 36 – Karim Janat (Afghanistan) vs. Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh (India), Bangalore, 2024 36 – Kamran Khan (QAT) vs. Dipendra Singh Airey (Nepal), Al Amarat, 2024 36- Azmatullah Omarzai (Afghanistan) vs. Nicholas Pooran (West Indies), St. Lucia, 2024 In the end, Nicholas Pooran put on a spectacular 98-run performance to become the first batter from the West Indies to reach 2000 runs in T20 cricket contests.

WI vs. AFG: Details of the match In the allowed 20 overs, the West Indies team, batting first, achieved 218 runs at the expense of 5 wickets. Nicholas Pooran scored 98 runs in 53 balls with 6 fours and 8 sixes, while Johnson Charles scored 43 runs in 27 balls with 8 fours. The Afghanistan team was bowled out for 114 runs in 16.2 overs while chasing an enormous 219 runs. With the exception of Rashid Khan (18 runs), Ibrahim Zadran (38 runs), and Azmatullah Omarzai (23 runs), the other batsmen were unsuccessful.