Sydney Cricket Ground records: List of SCG T20I records and batting and bowling stats

Dixit Bhargav | 10/02/2022
Sydney Cricket Ground records: List of SCG T20I records and batting and bowling stats

Sydney Cricket Ground records: The iconic Sydney Cricket Ground will be hosting a T20I after more than 14 months.

Sri Lanka’s tour of Australia 2022 will kick-start with the first of the five T20Is to be played at the Sydney Cricket Ground tomorrow. In what will be Australia and Sri Lanka’s seventh bilateral series against each other, it will be their first bilateral T20I after more than two years.

Talking about the venue, Sydney will be hosting a T20I after more than 14 months. Australia, who have played nine T20Is at this venue between 2007-2020, have won five and lost three till date.

Sri Lanka, on the other hand, have played 19 ODIs and a Test match in Sydney but will be playing their first-ever T20I on Friday. Hence, there are no T20I records in Sydney with respect to Sri Lankan players.

Sydney Cricket Ground records

Surprisingly, no Australian but former Indian captain Virat Kohli (236) is the highest T20I run-scorer at the Sydney Cricket Ground. While former Australia all-rounder Shane Watson (186) follows Kohli, it is worth mentioning that the Top 11 highest run-scorers in Sydney T20Is are Australian and Indian batters.

Batter Matches Runs Highest Average SR 100 50
Virat Kohli (IND) 4 236 85 78.66 145.67 0 3
Shane Watson (AUS) 2 186 124* 178.84 1 0
Shikhar Dhawan (IND) 4 147 52 36.75 167.04 0 1
Matthew Wade (AUS) 2 138 80 69 162.35 0 2
Glenn Maxwell (AUS) 5 132 54 33 140.42 0 1

As far as the bowlers are concerned, Top eight highest wicket-takers in Sydney are all Australian and Indian bowlers. It is worth mentioning that three out of the Top three highest wicket-takers are spinners.

Bowler Matches Wickets Average Economy SR
Andrew Tye (AUS) 5 8 26.28 9.35 16.8
Krunal Pandya (IND) 1 4 9 9 6
Mitchell Swepson (AUS) 2 4 12 6 12
Adam Zampa (AUS) 5 4 32.5 7.64 25.5
Billy Stanlake (AUS) 1 3 5 3.75 8

Highest score at Sydney Cricket Stadium in T20Is

Australia and India once again dominate in this list as the Top 10 highest T20I scores in Sydney have been scored between these two teams. The same also has a lot to do with India (4) playing the second-highest number of T20Is here.

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India’s T20I success in Sydney can be judged from the fact that the Top four highest chases (200/3, 195/4, 174/7 and 168/4) in the format here have been done by them.

Team Score Overs Opposition Year
Australia 221/5 20 England 2007
India 200/3 20 Australia 2016
Australia 197/5 20 India 2016
India 195/4 19.4 Australia 2020
Australia 194/5 20 India 2020
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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