Who holds the record of Highest T20 Score by a player?

Highest score in T20 – T20s are a batter-friendly format but it requires the batter to score runs quickly placing little value on their wickets. So individual hundreds in T20s are quite rare compared to the other two formats. But when a batter is in great touch and the opposition attack suits his style of batting, there’s no stopping the batter from achieving the milestone.

Highest T20 Score

Since the advent of T20Is, only 77 individual hundreds have been scored in the format from a total of 1024 matches (as of 21st February 2022) which equals a hundred once every 13 games. Now let’s take a look at the highest individual scores in T20Is.

Here’s a list of highest T20 score

1. 172 – Aaron Finch vs Zimbabwe

The highest score in T20Is and the second-highest score in all T20s only bettered by C Gayle’s 175 in 2013. After being put in to bat by Zimbabwe, Aaron Finch took their bowlers to the cleaners with a brutal display of power-hitting. He hit 16 boundaries and 10 sixes scoring almost 75% runs of the team’s total, the highest in all T20s. He also shared a record opening partnership of 223 runs with D’Arcy Short.

2. 162* – Hazratullah Zazai vs Ireland

Hazratullah Zazai was an unknown commodity in the international circuit before he cracked an unbeaten 62 ball 162 against Ireland in 2019. He hit 16 sixes en route to his 162 which is the highest in all T20Is and along with U Ghani he broke the record for the highest partnership in T20Is.

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3. 156 – Aaron Finch vs England

Aaron Finch once again finds himself on the list with his 156 off 63 balls against England in 2013. He tore into the English attack comprising of S Finn, S Broad, J Dernbach, and D Briggs. It was the highest individual T20I score at that time before Finch himself broke the record.

4. 145* – Glenn Maxwell vs Sri Lanka

Glenn Maxwell made most of the opportunity when he was asked to open in the first T20I between Sri Lanka and Australia in 2016 by scoring a boundary-laden 65 ball 145*. He hit 14 fours and 9 sixes in the process of getting to his highest ever individual score in T20s.

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5. 133* – Max O’Dowd vs Malaysia

This is the latest of all the highest individual scores as it came in the second match of a tri-series between Nepal, Netherlands, and Malaysia. Max O’Dowd showed no respect to the Malaysian bowlers as he thrashed them for 15 fours and 6 sixes registering the first-ever T20I hundred by a Netherlands batter.

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