The Baroda team has created history by breaking all the old records. In the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, Krunal Pandya's team set a world record for the highest score in T20 cricket history by scoring 349 runs in 20 overs. While playing against Sikkim, Baroda's batsmen made this huge scoreboard with a stormy batting. The previous record for the highest T20 total was held by Zimbabwe, whose batsmen scored 344 runs in 20 overs against Gambia this year.
Baroda set Sikkim a target of 350 runs Syed Mushtaq Ali 2024 Group-B match between Baroda and Sikkim. In this match Baroda team won the toss and decided to bat first. Batting first, the Baroda team had a great start. From the side, Shashwat Rawat and Abhimanyu Singh gave the team a strong start by opening in an aggressive style. Both the openers also batted violently and added 92 runs for the first wicket. Shashwat Rawat (43 runs off 16 balls) and Abhimanyu Singh Rajput (53 runs off 17 balls) hit fours and sixes. Rawat hit 4 fours and 4 sixes, while Abhimanyu hit 4 fours and 5 sixes.
Baroda team won by 263 runs In this match, Baroda defeated Sikkim by 263 runs. Chasing the target of 350 runs, the Sikkim team could score only 86 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs. Robin Limbu top scored for Sikkim with 20 runs while Ankur played an unbeaten innings of 18 runs. Only three batsmen from Sikkim could touch double figures. Mahesh Pithia and Ninad Rathwa took two wickets each from Baroda.
Bhanu Pania's explosive century Batting against Sikkim in their last league match of Group-B, Baroda scored 349 runs in the allotted 20 overs, with Bhanu Pania at number three in the most powerful form. He scored an unbeaten century and played a brilliant innings of 134 runs. Bhanu scored this run off just 51 balls, including 15 sixes. 5 fours also came from his bat in the innings.
Bhanu's record innings…
- Bhanu (134* runs) became the highest individual scorer in T-20. He surpassed Deepak Hooda (108 runs).
- Bhanu became the batsman who scored the most runs (110 runs) from boundaries in T20 matches. He surpassed Kedar Deodhar (80 runs).
- Bhanu became the player to hit the most sixes (15 sixes) in T20Is. He surpassed Deepak Hooda's record of 9 sixes.
Stormy batting from Shivalik and Vishnu too Batting at number four and number five, Shivalik Sharma and Vishnu Solanki also scored fifties in riotous style. Shivalik scored 55 runs in 17 balls with the help of 3 fours and 6 sixes. At the same time, Vishnu stunned the bowlers and scored 50 runs in just 16 balls. There were also 2 fours and 6 sixes in this innings. Sikkim's Roshan Kumar proved to be the most expensive. He gave 81 runs with 2 wickets in his four overs.
The team's score crossed 300 in the 18th over With the help of third batsman Bhanu Pania's 42-ball century, Baroda crossed the 300-run mark in just 17.2 overs. The team completed 100 runs in the Powerplay itself. With this, Baroda became the first Indian domestic team to score 100 runs in T20 Powerplay apart from IPL. The team scored 349 runs at the end of 20 overs. Thus Baroda became the highest scoring team in T20. Earlier in the year 2024, Zimbabwe scored 344 runs for 4 wickets in a match against Gambia.
99 runs scored in the last 37 balls Baroda scored 99 runs in the last 37 balls of the innings. The team crossed the mark of 50 runs in the first 16 balls.
37 sixes… washed the bowlers of Sikkim! Sikkim's bowlers had no answer to the batting of the Baroda batsmen in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy. You can gauge how ruthlessly the Baroda batsmen were batting by looking at their strike rate. None of the top 5 batsmen had a strike rate below 200.
A total of 37 sixes were hit in Baroda's innings, 10 more than the record number of 27 sixes hit by Zimbabwe in the Gambia match.
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