Zimbabwe T20I Highest Score World Record: Zimbabwe has defeated Gambia by a margin of 290 runs. With this, Zimbabwe has created a world record by achieving the biggest margin of victory in the history of T20 cricket. The biggest hero of this match was Sikandar Raza, who created a stir in the cricket world by playing an unbeaten inning of 133 runs in just 43 balls. He also hit 15 sixes and 7 fours while scoring 133 runs.
In this match, Zimbabwe won the toss and decided to bat first. Zimbabwe’s batsmen had taken the team’s score beyond 100 runs within the first 6 overs and the team had scored 150 runs in the first 10 overs. The pace of runs was increasing and by the end of 13 overs the team had crossed the 200-run mark. Meanwhile, Sikandar Raza became the first player to score a century for Zimbabwe in the history of T20 cricket. He had completed his century in just 33 balls.
Highest score in T20 cricket
In this match for Zimbabwe, Brian Bennett (50 runs), T Marumani (62 runs) and Clive Madande played an important role in taking the team to the historic score of 344 runs by playing half-centuries of 53 runs. Earlier, the highest run-scoring team in international T20 cricket was Nepal, which had scored 314 runs against Mongolia in the year 2023. But now Zimbabwe has created history by scoring 30 runs more than that.
World record of biggest win
In reply, Gambia’s team, which came to chase the target of 345 runs, had such a bad start that by the time the score was 37 runs, half the team had returned to the pavilion. The process of falling of wickets continued and the entire team was reduced to 54 runs. Gambia has now become the team to lose by the highest margin of runs in a T20 match. It lost by 290 runs, before this the shameful record of the highest defeat by runs was in the name of Mongolia, which had lost by 273 runs at the hands of Nepal.
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