Mohammad Nabi came out to bat at No. 7 for Afghanistan on Thursday, September 18, against Sri Lanka in Abu Dhabi and scored 60 runs from just 22 balls in the Asia Cup 2025 match. During his stay at the crease in the Group B fixture, the right-handed batter hammered 3 fours and 6 sixes to help Rashid Khan’s men post a total of 169/8 in 20 overs.
In the final over of Afghanistan’s innings bowled by Dunith Wellalage, Nabi hammered five sixes in the first five balls. In addition to conceding five sixes in a row, Wellalage also bowled one no ball and conceded one single on the last ball of the over.
Nabi added a total of 32 runs to Afghanistan’s total in the 20th over bowled by Wellalage.
In the history of T20I cricket, the record of scoring the most
runs in an over is in the name of Samoa batter Darius Visser. During the T20I match played between Samoa and Vanuatu in Apia on August 20, 2024, Visser scored a total of 39 runs in the over bowled by Nalin Nipiko. Visser hammered Nipiko for a total of six sixes, and the bowler also bowled three no balls.
India’s Yuvraj Singh and the duo of Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh, along with West Indies batters Kieron Pollard and Nicholas Pooran, Nepal’s Dipendra Singh Airee and Bulgaria’s Manan Bashir, have also scored a total of 36 runs in one over of a T20I match.
While Yuvraj, Pollard, Airee and Bashir hammered six back-to-back sixes, Pooran and Rinku and Rohit also scored fours.
Most runs off one over in T20Is
| BATTER(S) | TEAM | RUNS | BOWLER | AGAINST | VENUE | DATE |
| Darius Visser | Samoa | 39 | Nalin Nipiko | Vanuatu | Apia (No 2) | 2024 |
| Yuvraj Singh | India | 36 | Stuart Broad | England | Durban | 2007 |
| Kieron Pollard | West Indies | 36 | Akila Dananjaya | Sri Lanka | Antigua | 2021 |
| Rohit Sharma, Rinku Singh | India | 36 | Karim Janat | Afghanistan | Bengaluru | 2024 |
| Dipendra Singh Airee | Nepal | 36 | Kamran Khan | Qatar | Al Amerat | 2024 |
| Nicholas Pooran | West Indies | 36 | Azmatullah Omarzai | Afghanistan | Gros Islet | 2024 |
| Manan Bashir | Bulgaria | 36 | Kabir Mirpuri | Gibraltar | Sofia | 2025 |
| Ali Raza | Belgium | 35 | Vasu Saini | Romania | Ilfov County | 2025 |
| Tim Seifert, Ross Taylor | New Zealand | 34 | Shivam Dube | India | Mount Maunganui | 2020 |
| Ryan Burl | Zimbabwe | 34 | Nasum Ahmed | Bangladesh | Harare | 2022 |
| Jonny Bairstow, Moeen Ali | England | 33 | Andile Phehlukwayo | South Africa | Bristol | 2022 |
| Zubaidi Zulkifle, Syed Aziz | Malaysia | 33 | Nasrulla Rana | Hong Kong | Kuala Lumpur | 2023 |
| Andries Gous, Aaron Jones | USA | 33 | Jeremy Gordon | Canada | Dallas | 2024 |
| Jos Buttler | England | 32 | Wayne Parnell | South Africa | Edgbaston | 2012 |
| Jos Buttler, Luke Wright | England | 32 | Izatullah Dawlatzai | Afghanistan | Colombo (RPS) | 2012 |
| Evin Lewis | West Indies | 32 | Stuart Binny | India | Lauderhill | 2016 |
| George Munsey | Scotland | 32 | Max O’Dowd | Netherlands | Dublin (Malahide) | 2019 |
| Mohammad Aadil Alam, Dipendra Singh Airee | Nepal | 32 | Nosaina Pokana | Papua New Guinea | Kirtipur | 2022 |
| Dipendra Singh Airee | Nepal | 32 | Mungun Altankhuyag | Mongolia | Hangzhou | 2023 |
| Gerhard Erasmus, David Wiese | Nepal | 32 | Rafiullah | Oman | Al Amerat | 2024 |
| Phil Salt, Jos Buttler | England | 32 | Harmeet Singh | USA | Bridgetown | 2024 |
| Mohammad Nabi | Afghanistan | 32 | Dunith Wellalage | Sri Lanka | Abu Dhabi | 2025 |
Nabi super show with the bat helped Afghanistan posted a total of 169/8 in 20 overs.
