Records are meant to be broken. Except, there are days in the great game of cricket where they are smashed and plundered.
For instance, take the case of Samoa National Cricket team’s Darius Visser who, in a contest held in the East Asia Pacific sub-regional series against Vanuatu, absolutely gobsmacked his opponents on way to a world record breaking feat.
On multiple occasions have six sixes been hit to bowlers whose careers, after the sledgehammering, suffered resultantly.
And they have suffered indescribably for the simplest of reasons that no bowler wishes to be ripped apart. Sir Sobers had done it many moons ago.
So did the likes of Kireon Pollard in 2021 and before the West Indies’s own KP broke the back of Sri Lanka in the Caribbean, there was a certain Yuvraj Singh.
The legendary Indian left hander’s feat came in the inaugural T20 World Cup that made it spectacular. It’s never a good thing to go for runs.
But then when you’re subjected to six sixes on the bounce, each of which lead to the maximum runs a batter can score off a single shot, it’s really the bowler there that gets shot.
Isn’t it?
So when batters apply power and panache, it leads to a problem for the bowlers.
One such problem was faced by Vanutau a few hours back when Samoan wicket keeping batter Darius Visser became a powerhouse with the bat and in the process became his country’s first centurion in the T20I format.
Not only that, while Visser’s attacking, lofty striking crushed Vanuatu, it led the right hander to a world breaking feat and one of epic proportions.
Striking six consecutive sixes, Visser, who interestingly made his T20I debut just earlier this year against Fiji (August 2024), became the talk of the town in a game whose reach extends miles and miles around the planet today.
The now popular Visser from Samoa finds himself on the top of a league of iconic names to have hit the enviable six consecutive sixes.
The 28-year-old made headlines when he subjected Vanuatau’s Nalin Nipiko to an exhibition of brutality with the bat.
All of this brings us to reflect on the constantly changing vagaries of cricket, where while it’s a great day for a batsman on the one hand, it’s unfortunately not quite the case for the bowler operating at the other hand, who can become, as seen in this case, become the sufferer (which was the case here).
Having said that, with positions up for grabs at the T20 World Cup 2026, Samoa, bolstered by the their mega win over Vanuatu in this T20 international, will fancy a chance.
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