21-year-old Mohit
Ahlawat became the first batsman in the world to score a 300 in a T20 match on
Tuesday. While the match had no official status and was only a local match
played in Delhi, Ahlawat’s knock was one was filled with superlatives and his
triple century came in 72 balls.
The Delhi
wicketkeeper-batsman smashed a whopping 39 sixes and 14 boundaries on his way
to the total. No player has ever crossed the 200-run-mark in international or
domestic T20 matches. In professional cricket, the highest individual score in
T20 cricket belongs to Chris Gayle, who made 175 runs in just 66 balls for Royal
Challengers Bangalore. The highest individual in international cricket is 156
that Aaron Finch smashed in 63 balls for Australia against England.
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‘Carnage’ was the oft
used word to describe the two innings were described as and so, one can only
imagine what Ahlawat’s innings would have looked like. It is
also interesting to note that no team has scored more than 300 runs in T20
cricket.
The highest score by a
team in 20-over cricket is a record shared by IPL team Royal Challengers
Bangalore and Australia. The two teams had managed 263.