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Zimbabwe world records: Zimbabwe have created history by scoring the highest score in T20I in a match in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup Sub Regional Africa Qualifier, 2024. Batting first against Gambia, Zimbabwe scored 344 runs at the loss of four wickets in 20 overs, beating Nepal and India. Earlier in T20I, Nepal had scored 314 runs against Mongolia.
Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat against Gambia at the Ruaraka Sports Club Ground in Nairobi. When Brian Bennett (50) and T Marumani (62) made a partnership of 98 runs in 5.4 overs for the first wicket, who knew that a new history was going to be written in T20 cricket today. Captain Sikandar Raza, who came to bat after the fall of two wickets, surprised everyone and played a stormy innings.
Sikandar Raza created history
Sikandar Raza made his intentions clear by scoring a century in just 33 balls that his team is going to create a new history today. Let us tell you that Sikandar Raza has become the joint second batsman to score the fastest century in T20I. Captain Raza has drawn level with Namibia's John Nicol Lofty Eaton. Eaton scored a century in 33 balls against Nepal. Raza played an unbeaten inning of 133 runs on 43 balls against Gambia. During this period, 7 fours and 15 sixes were hit. Not only this, Clive Madande played an unbeaten inning of 53 runs in 17 balls.
Players who scored the fastest century in T20I
- Sahil Chauhan, Estonia vs Cyprus – 27 balls
- John Nicol Lofty Eaton, Namibia vs Nepal – 33 balls
- Sikandar Raza, Zimbabwe vs Gambia, 33 balls
- Kushal Malla, Nepal vs Mongolia, 34 balls
- David Miller, South Africa vs Bangladesh, 35 balls
- Rohit Sharma, India vs Sri Lanka, 35 balls
Zimbabwe made world record
Thanks to the brilliant batting of Zimbabwe's batsmen, the team made the biggest score in T-20. Zimbabwe scored 344 runs and overtook Nepal's score of 314 runs. With this, India has slipped to third place in the list of highest scoring teams in T-20. Team India scored 297 runs in the last T20 match against Bangladesh in Hyderabad. Zimbabwe is once again at fourth place, which scored 286 runs against Nairobi.
Highest scoring team in T20I
- Zimbabwe – 344 vs Gambia – 2024
- Nepal- 314 vs Mongolia-2023
- India-297 vs Bangladesh-2024
- Zimbabwe – 286 vs Nairobi – 2024
- Afghanistan – 278 vs Ireland – 2019
Not only this, Gambia's bowler Moses Joharteh has a shameful record in his name. Moses bowled the most expensive spell of T20I. Moses gave 93 runs in four overs without taking any wicket. Gambia team, chasing the target, collapsed for just 54 runs in 14.4 overs. Zimbabwe won by 290 runs.