WORLD RECORDS: SPORTS, CRICKET: Jasprit Bumrah Breaks West Indies’s Legendary Brian Lara’s 18-year-old World Record, Smashes England’s Stuart Broad for 29 runs in an Over creating a New World Record for Maximum Runs in a Single Over in Test Cricket.

Jasprit Bumrah breaks Lara’s world record, smashes Broad for 29 runs in an over.

The world record stayed with Brian Lara for 18 years; he scored 28 runs off Robin Peterson in 2003-04.

India captain Jasprit Bumrah bludgeoned a hapless Stuart Broad for 29 runs to create a world record for maximum runs off a single over in Test cricket, beating the legendary Brian Lara’s feat by one run.

The world record stayed with Lara for 18 years — he had hit South African left-arm spinner Robin Peterson for 28 runs in a Test match in 2003-04, which included four fours and two sixes off six legal deliveries.

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