Highest T20 score: List of highest innings totals in T20s

Dixit Bhargav | 19/01/2022
Highest T20 score: List of highest innings totals in T20s

Highest T20 score: Melbourne Stars have successfully managed to score the highest team innings total in a T20 league.

During the 56th match of the ongoing 11th season of the Big Bash League between Melbourne Stars and Hobart Hurricanes in Melbourne, Melbourne Stars scored the highest innings total in a T20 league match.

Asked to bat first by Hobart Hurricanes captain Matthew Wade, Stars put on board a record-breaking 273/2 in 20 overs. In what is the  highest innings total in the BBL, it is the second-highest in a T20 match as T20Is are also counted as T20s.

Led by captain Glenn Maxwell’s career-best 154* (64), Stars hit a grand total of 29 fours and 11 sixes in their 20-over quota which averages down to a boundary every three deliveries for 120 deliveries.

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In what will go down as one of the best T20 innings by a team, it witnessed Maxwell putting together a 42-ball opening partnership alongside wicket-keeper batter Joe Clarke (35). The arrival of all-rounder Marcus Stoinis (75*) at No. 4 witnessed the pair accumulating as many as 132 runs in nine overs to leave the visiting bowlers clueless.

While Maxwell broke Stoinis’ individual BBL innings record, Stars surpassed Sydney Thunder (232/5) to break a record which was set against Sydney Sixers in Adelaide on the back of opening batter Alex Hales’ maiden BBL century a years ago.

Highest T20 score

Team Score Overs Opposition Ground Year
Afghanistan 278/3 20 Ireland Dehradun 2019
Czech Republic 278/4 20 Turkey Ilfov County 2019
Melbourne Stars 273/2 20 Hobart Hurricanes Melbourne 2022
Trinbago Knight Riders 267/2 20 Jamaica Tallawahs Kingston 2019
Royal Challengers Bangalore 263/5 20 Pune Warriors India Bengaluru 2013
Australia 263/3 20 Sri Lanka Pallekele 2016
North West 262/4 20 Limpopo Paarl 2018
Sri Lanka 260/6 20 Kenya Johannesburg 2007
Yorkshire 260/4 20 Northants Leeds 2017
India 260/5 20 Sri Lanka Indore 2017
Post Edited By: Dixit Bhargav
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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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