Australia in New Zealand : 5 oneday, 2 test match series.
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4th ODI : Australia secure series | 3rd ODI : Haddin ton.
2nd ODI : Aus won by 12 runs | 1st ODI : Kiwis by 2 wkts.
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2nd ODI : Morgan's ton | 1st ODI : English cruised home.
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Highest Score by a batsman in Twenty20 (T20) Cricket.

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Charis-Gayle-Twenty20-Century-140109.jpg Test cricket is where batsmen first defend, calculate and then score runs.

One day Internationals is where batsmen look to attack, but there's a danger of being bowled out before playing full quota of 50 overs.

Twenty20 cricket is were batter don't think one bit, and smash everything from ball one. Selectors even keep those batsman away from this shortest version of international cricket who can't play innovative strokes.

If you like to hit sixes, T20 is for you.

But few batsmen have the ability to clear field at will. In fact, only Chris Gayle of West Indies has managed to reach three figure individual score in 20 over cricket, and we all know how good a striker of cricket ball he is.

Update : Brendon McCullum of New Zealand blasted 116 runs off just 56 balls at AMI stadium in Christchurch against arch rivals Australians, making it only two tons in T20 cricket thus far. McCullum played one ball lesser than Gayle and made 1 less. Here are the batters who have gone past 80 in 20-20 over cricket.

Highest Individual scores by a batsman in T20 cricket.
Batsman (Country) Runs Balls 4s 6s Versus Venue Mon/Yr
Chris Gayle (WI) 117 57 7 10 South Africa Jo'burg 11 Sep 2007
Brendon McCullum (NZ) 116* 56 12 8 Australia Christchurch 28 Feb 2010
Ricky Ponting (Aus) 98* 55 8 5 New Zealand Auckland 17 Feb 2005
Tillakaratane Dilshan (SL) 96* 67 12 2 West Indies The Oval 19 Jun 2009
Demien Martyn (Aus) 96 56 7 5 South Africa Brisbane 9 Jan 2006
Loots Bosman (SA) 94 45 5 9 England Centurion 15 Nov 2009
Herschelle Gibbs (SA) 90* 55 14 2 West Indies Jo'burg 11 Sep 2007
Graeme Smith (SA) 89* 58 11 1 Australia Jo'burg 24 Feb 2006
Justin Kemp (SA) 89* 56 6 6 New Zealand Durban 19 Sep 2007
David Warner (Aus) 89 43 7 6 South Africa Melbourne 11 Jan 2009
David Hussey (Aus) 88* 44 5 6 South Africa Jo'burg 27 Mar 2009
Hiral Patel (Canada) 88* 61 9 2 Ireland Colombo 3 Feb 2010
Sanath Jayasuriya (SL) 88 44 11 4 Kenya Jo'burg 14 Sep 2007
Chris Gayle (WI) 88 50 6 6 Australia The Oval 6 Jun 2009
Graeme Smith (SA) 88 44 8 6 England Centurion 15 Nov 2009
Misbah-ul-Haq (Pak) 87* 53 3 5 Bangladesh Karachi 20 Apr 2008
Andrew Symonds (Aus) 85* 46 7 3 New Zealand Perth 11 Dec 2007
Eoin Morgan (Eng) 85* 45 7 5 South Africa Jo'burg 13 Nov 2009
Sanath Jayasuriya (SL) 81 47 10 3 West Indies Nottingham 10 Jun 2009
Nazimuddin (Bdesh) 81 50 8 5 Pakistan Nairobi 2 Sep 2007


Note : above list is limited to batsmen who have scored more than a 80 in T20 games.. in process, batters from all main team like West Indies, India, Australia, England, South Africa, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Zimbabwe and New Zealand are included.

Record holders

Ricky Ponting with his 98 not out in that very first ever T20 internationally, against New Zealand which was then broken by Chris Gayle's 117 against South Africa on 11 September 2007.




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