Australia Highest Powerplay score in T20I: Last Wednesday, a three-match T20 series started between Australia and Scotland. In the first match of the series, the Australian team chased the target of 155 runs in just 58 balls. There were many memorable aspects of this encounter, one of which was Travis Head’s 80-run innings. Head played a stormy innings of 80 runs in just 25 balls. But history was also created in this match because Australia scored 113 runs in just 6 overs.
Now Australia has become the team to score the highest score within the powerplay in the history of international T20 cricket. Let us tell you that earlier the highest score in the powerplay of an international T20 match was in the name of South Africa. Africa had scored 102 runs in 6 overs without losing a wicket against West Indies in 2023. In that match, South Africa was chasing a target of 259 runs but the pair of Quinton de Kock (100 runs) and Reeza Hendricks (68 runs) scored 102 runs within the powerplay, while they had a partnership of 152 runs in 65 balls.
India’s highest powerplay score
The Indian team is far behind in terms of scoring the highest score in the powerplay of a T20 match. In the powerplay, the Indian team scored 78 runs after losing 2 wickets against South Africa in 2018, which is its highest score in 6 overs till date. In that match, Rohit Sharma scored 31 runs in 9 balls, while Shikhar Dhawan scored 72 runs in 39 balls. Although Suresh Raina was out early, he also helped India achieve its highest powerplay score by playing a cameo innings of 15 runs in 7 balls.
Apart from this, India scored 77 runs against Sri Lanka in 2009 and 76 runs in the powerplay against New Zealand in 2007. With time, pitches have started becoming more conducive for batting, despite this, till date the Indian team has not been able to reach even 80 runs, let alone 100 runs, in the first 6 overs.
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