39-run over!
Sports Reporter
Nazmul Hossain Milon was having just another decent day in the ground until he walked in to bowl his ninth over. In the Kai-Altech Premier League match against Brothers Union, the Victoria paceman had reasonable figures of 0-25 in eight overs, but batsmen Fahad Ullah, Anisur Rahman and the cricketing pest known as no-ball all conspired to give him an over to equally forget and remember.Milon, who has an awkward bowling action, started off giving away couple of runs off the first ball, before embarking on a no-ball binge. He stepped over the popping crease four times in a row, getting hit for boundaries off two deliveries. Things got a little normal when he bowled three legitimate balls, but still gave away seven in the process. Milon, now having given away 24 so far, must have wanted the ground at BKSP to swallow him up but things were about to get a lot worse. He bowled another no-ball and then was hit for two sixes by Fahad, Brothers' Pakistani recruit. To summarise, a despondent Milon bowled 11 deliveries in all, getting hit for 39 runs in the over. This was the highest number of runs conceded in one over in a limited-overs match at any level in the world. The 30-year-old record of 34 runs in one over was held by Sir Viv Richards who struck 5 sixes and a four off David Graveney in a county one-day match at Taunton. A big-hitter himself, Milon walked off flabbergasted, having given away 64 runs off nine overs now. His last over went: 2, 2+nb, 4+nb, 1+nb, 4+nb, 2, 4, 1, 2+nb, 6, 6.
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