The Highest number of runs scored in an over is not 36. It’s 77

The Highest number of runs scored in an over is not 36. It’s 77.

Though Bert Vance’s figures from the match read 1-0-77-0, the over is not counted when one lists the most expensive overs of all time. Similar treatment has been dished out to some of the fastest hundreds as well.

Germon (above) scored 70 runs in an over off Bert Vance’s bowling for Canterbury against Wellington in 1990 Images

Bert Vance had conceded a record 77 off a single over on February 20, 1990. Abhishek Mukherjee looks at the day when the sport had been reduced to a farce by John Morrison and Ervin McSweeney.