Highest score in T20: Know the massive totals in cricket’s shortest format
World cricket has often seen teams amassing huge scores and records being shattered at regular intervals in the shortest format of the game.
Be it T20Is or franchise cricket, batsmen dominating bowlers is a common sight.
Afghanistan recorded the highest score in T20 when they totalled 278/3 against Ireland in February 2019. Coincidentally six months later, the Czech Republic also notched up the same total (278/4) against Turkey in the Continental Cup to jointly hold the record for the highest T20 team score.
The totals meant that the two teams scored at a rate of nearly 14 runs an over (13.9).
Melbourne Stars took the third spot in the highest T20 team score list by scoring 273/2 against Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash League 2021-22 followed by Titans' 271/3 against Knights in a league phase match of the CSA T20 Challenge 2022-23.
The highest score in the Indian T20 League was registered in 2013 when Chris Gayle went berserk against Pune enroute to a blistering 175 not out, a knock that was studded with 13 fours and 17 sixes. Bangalore scored 263/5 and won the match by 130 runs.
The Indian cricket team registered its highest T20I score of 260/5 against Sri Lanka in Indore in 2017 when then skipper Rohit Sharma’s 118 knocked the opposition out of the contest. India eventually won by 88 runs.
India’s domestic powerhouse Mumbai also joins the list and rounds off the top 10 scores. They racked up a score of 258/4 against minnows Sikkim in the 2019 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.
Highest score in men’s T20 cricket
|
Team |
Opposition |
Score |
Ground |
Match Date |
|
Afghanistan |
Ireland |
278/3 |
Dehradun |
Feb 2019 |
|
Czech Republic |
Turkey |
278/4 |
Ilfov County |
Aug 2019 |
|
Melbourne |
Hobart |
273/2 |
MCG |
January 2022 |
|
Titans |
Knights |
271/3 |
Potchefstroom |
October 2022 |
|
Trinbago |
Tallawahs |
267/2 |
Kingston |
Sep 2019 |
|
Somerset |
Derbyshire |
265/5 |
Taunton |
July 2022 |
|
Bangalore |
Pune |
263/5 |
Bengaluru |
April 2013 |
|
Australia |
Sri Lanka |
263/3 |
Pallekele |
Sep 2016 |
|
North West |
Limpopo |
262/4 |
Paarl |
Sep 2018 |
|
Multan Sultans |
Quetta Gladiators |
262/3 |
Rawalpindi |
March 2023 |
|
Warwickshire Bears |
Notts |
261/2 |
Nottingham |
June 2022 |
|
Sri Lanka |
Kenya |
260/6 |
Johannesburg |
Sep 2007 |
|
Yorkshire |
Northants |
260/4 |
Leeds |
Aug 2017 |
|
India |
Sri Lanka |
260/5 |
Indore |
Dec 2017 |
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