Sharjah Cricket Stadium T20 records: Sharjah T20 records and highest innings totals

The sixth match of International League T20 will be played between Sharjah Warriors and MI Emirates in Sharjah. One of the three ILT20 2023 venues, Sharjah Cricket Stadium will be hosting its first match of the season tonight.

A stadium which has hosted the third-highest number of international matches across formats will be hosting its first T20 since ICC T20 World Cup 2022. Apart from international cricket, Sharjah has hosted close to 150 Men’s T20s which comprises being witness to several T20 competitions.

Sharjah Cricket Stadium T20 records

Highest T20 run-scorers at this stadium are Mohammad Shahzad (941), Shane Watson (549), Mohammad Nabi (523), Chris Gayle (509) and Luke Ronchi (502). A list of highest T20 run-scorers here among active cricketers has been given below.

Highest wicket-takers in Sharjah T20s are Rashid Khan (31), Nabi (25), Mujeeb Ur Rahman (24), Mohammad Sami (21) and Mirwais Ashraf (21). A list of best T20 bowlers at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium among active cricketers has been provided below.

Highest innings totals in Sharjah T20s

Sharjah has a knack of being a high-scoring venue in the general run of things. A venue which has seen multiple T20 innings totals in excess of 200 has also been witness to four successful T20 run-chases over the 200-run mark.

The above mentioned fourth-highest innings totals at this stadium is also the highest successful run-chase here in this format. Individual half-centuries by Sanju Samson (85), Rahul Tewatia (53) and Steven Smith (50) had played a key role in sealing a 224-run chase with three balls to go.

The match is fondly remembered for Tewatia hitting five sixes in a Sheldon Cottrell over to power his team to a record IPL run-chase.

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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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