Belfast Cricket Ground T20 records: Belfast T20 records and highest innings total at Civil Service Cricket Club Sormont

Dixit Bhargav | 08/08/2022
Belfast Cricket Ground T20 records: Belfast T20 records and highest innings total at Civil Service Cricket Club Sormont

Belfast Cricket Ground T20 records: Civil Service Cricket Club will be hosting an international match in less than three weeks.

Afghanistan’s tour of Ireland 2022 will commence in less than 24 hours from now with the first of a five-match T20I series to be played at the Civil Service Cricket Club. Readers must note that all the remaining matches of this series will also be played at this venue only.

Belfast, which hosted New Zealand for three T20Is for last month, will be hosting a total of eight international matches in this bumper Irish summer.

Ireland, who’ve played 14 out of the 22 T20Is played here, have won four and lost nine to not have the best of records in the last 14 years. Afghanistan, on the other hand, have never played a Belfast T20I in the past. Having played nine ODIs at this venue, Afghanistan have won five and lost four matches.

Belfast Cricket Ground T20 records (updated)

Highest T20I run-scorers at the Civil Service Cricket Club are Paul Stirling (223), Andy Balbirnie (168), William Porterfield (154), Lorcan Tucker (149) and Glenn Phillips (148). A list of best T20I batters at this venue among active cricketers is provided below:

Batter Matches Runs Highest Average SR
Paul Stirling (IRE) 12 223 40 18.58 109.85
Andy Balbirnie (IRE) 9 168 51 21 113.51
Lorcan Tucker (IRE) 7 149 50 21.28 120.16
Glenn Phillips (NZ) 3 148 69* 148 132.14
Mark Adair (IRE) 3 88 78* 44 129.41

Highest wicket-takers in Belfast T20Is are Josh Little (12), Kevin O’Brien (11), Dewald Nel (9), Andrew Cusack (9) and Harvir Baidwan (8). A list of best T20I bowlers here among active cricketers is given below:

Bowler Matches Wickets Average Economy SR
Josh Little (IRE) 6 12 16 8 12
Paul Stirling (IRE) 12 7 10.14 6.45 9.4
Ish Sodhi (NZ) 3 6 14 7.63 11
George Dockrell (IRE) 10 6 23 6.9 20
Mark Adair (IRE) 7 6 36.83 8.50 26

Highest innings total at Civil Service Cricket Club, Sormont, Belfast (updated)

Score Overs Team Opposition Year
190/5 20 Bangladesh Ireland 2012
189/2 20 South Africa Ireland 2021
180/4 19 New Zealand Ireland 2022
179/4 20 New Zealand Ireland 2022
174/4 20 Ireland New Zealand 2022

Out of 24 Belfast T20Is over the years, 15 have been won by teams batting second. The above mentioned third-highest innings total at this venue is also the highest successful T20I run-chase here.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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