Bellerive Oval Hobart Cricket Ground records T20I: Blundstone Arena T20 records and highest innings total

Bellerive Oval Hobart Cricket Ground records: Hobart will be hosting a T20I after more than four and a half years tomorrow.

Having last hosted the last of its three T20Is more than four and a half years ago, Hobart will be hosting a couple of matches on the second day of ICC T20 World Cup 2022 tomorrow.

Blundstone Arena, whose last international match was an Ashes Test earlier this year, is one of the seven venues for this World Cup and will also be hosting three Super 12 matches later this month.

First matches for First Round Group B teams, an afternoon West Indies vs Scotland match will be followed by a Zimbabwe vs Ireland encounter at night. It is noteworthy that neither of the four teams has played a T20I at the Bellerive Oval in the past. Scotland and Zimbabwe, in fact, have never played a T20I in Australia.

Bellerive Oval Hobart Cricket Ground records (updated on October, 2022)

Highest run-scorers in Hobart T20Is are Sikandar Raza (136), Glenn Maxwell (123), George Munsey (121), Michael Jones (110) and Paul Stirling (108). Among players taking part in this tournament, Curtis Campher (101), Lorcan Tucker (76), George Dockrell (77) and Kusal Mendis (68) have also played well in the shortest format at this venue in the past.

Highest T20I wicket-takers at this stadium are Alzarri Joseph (6), Blessing Muzarabani (6), Jason Holder (5), Raza (5) and Mark Watt (5). As far as bowlers part of all the squads for this World Cup are concerned, Glenn Maxwell (4), Tendai Chatara (4), Richard Ngarava (4), Gareth Delany (4) and Josh Little (4) have bowled well here.

Highest innings total in Hobart T20Is (updated on October, 2022)

Until the eve of last two T20 World Cup 2022 matches at this venue, teams batting first and second have won five Hobart T20Is each which includes chasing teams winning the last three matches in a row.

Out of the 18 completed T20I innings at the Bellerive Oval, innings totals of 200+ have been registered twice. The first Australia (213/4) vs England (200/9) T20I eight years ago was quite a high-scoring match at this venue.

Before this World Cup, highest successful T20I run-chase here belonged to hosts Australia for sealing a 156-run target with nine balls to spare against England in 2018. However, the equation has now changed with Ireland sealing a 177-run target with six balls to spare against Scotland earlier this week.

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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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