Australia’s opening batsman Aaron Finch made a world record
of highest individual inning in Twenty20 Internationals when he blasted 156
against England at The Rose Bowl, Southampton on August 29. His dynamite inning
included 11 fours and 14 sixes – another world record, in only 70 minutes
facing just 63 balls at an amazing strike rate of 247.61 runs per 100 balls.
Aaron Finch surpassed the record held by New Zealand’s
Brendon McCullum who cracked 123 off 58 balls against Bangladesh at Pallekele
nearly a year ago. Chris Gayle was the first batsman to score a hundred in the
shortest version of international cricket when he slammed 117 off 57 balls
against South Africa at Johannesburg in 2007.
A total of 10 centuries have been scored in Twenty20
Internationals with New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum hitting two of those, while
eight other batsmen have score one century apiece. A list of nine batsmen to
score Twenty20 International hundreds include two from New Zealand (BB McCullum
123, 116* and MJ Guptill 101*) and Sri Lanka (TM Dilshan 104* and DPMD
Jayawerdene 100) while one batsman each from Australia (AJ Finch 156), West
Indies (CH Gayle 117), South Africa (RE Levi 117*), India (SK Raina 101) and
Scotland (RD Berrington 100).
The highest individual score for other countries in Twenty20
Internationals read as England (LJ Wright 99* and AD Hales 99), Pakistan (Ahmed
Shehzad 98*), Netherlands (MR Swart 89), Bangladesh (Tamim Iqbal 88*), Canada
(H Patel 88*), Zimbabwe (H Masakadza 79), Kenya (AA Obanda 79), Ireland (PR
Stirling 79), Afghanistan (Mohammad Shahzad 77) and Bermuda (SD Outerbridge
37*).
Two centuries each have been scored in New Zealand (117* and
116*), Sri Lanka (123 and 104*), South Africa (117 and 101*) and West Indies (101
and 100) while one apiece on English (156) and Dutch (100) soil. The highest
individual Twenty20 inning in other countries include 98* in Zimbabwe,
Australia 96, India 91, Namibia 89, Bangladesh 88*, Pakistan 87*, USA 85*,
Kenya 81, UAE 79 and Canada 79.
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