Basseterre (St Kitts): West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan celebrated his 26th birthday on Friday by becoming the second man to hit six fours in a Test over.
India's Sandeep Patil had also hit England's Bob Willis for six fours in one over but he had also scored a four off a no-ball.
South African Lance Klusener and Australia's David Hookes once hit five fours in an over.
His team mate Brian Lara holds the record for most runs scored in a single Test over on 28.
Sarwan was 113 not out with Shivnarine Chanderpaul on two as the West Indies reached lunch on the second day of the third Test against India on 362 for three in their first innings.
The West Indies owed their commanding position mainly to a stand of 203 that Sarwan and Daren Ganga, who scored 135, shared for the second wicket.
The attacking Sarwan faced 164 balls and hit 17 fours and a six.
Ganga nudged his runs off 294 deliveries but also stroked 15 fours.
India took the new ball immediately it was due an hour into the day's play, but Ganga moved untroubled to his third Test century nine balls later when he put fast bowler Munaf Patel through the covers for four.
Munaf's next over proved a nightmare for him, and it started when Sarwan drove the first delivery through the covers for four.
Sarwan hooked the second ball to the square-leg ropes for another four, and he drove the third uppishly through cover for his third boundary of the over.
Munaf was unlucky not to dismiss Sarwan with his next ball, which found the inside edge of the bat before scooting to the fine-leg fence.
Perhaps imbued by his good fortune, a daring Sarwan cut the fifth delivery between the slip cordon and gully for four.
The shaken Munaf was probably desperate to end the over, but his sixth delivery was ruled a no-ball - which Sarwan cut past point for four.
Munaf bowled the ball again, and while he managed to send down a legal delivery he pitched the ball short and wide of Sarwan's off-stump.
To Munaf's relief, Sarwan played the ball gently to point.
No run was taken. It was the fifth time in Test cricket that an over had yielded 25 runs.
The run glut rushed Sarwan from 75 not out to 99 not out, and he reached his ninth century with the third ball of the next over when he took a single to mid-wicket off the bowling of fast bowler Shantakumaran Sreesanth.
Munaf's woes were eased in the fifth over before lunch when Ganga pushed forward and edged a delivery onto his stumps.
The battered paceman's brow was unfurrowed further two overs later when he trapped Lara LBW for 10 with a delivery that pitched on the left-hander's off-stump and held its line.
Munaf went to lunch with figures of three for 118 from 24 overs.
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