Karachi: As just a few days are remaining in the Twenty-20 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka, some facts and intrusting thing you should know about the game are given below.
Twenty 20 was introduced in England and Wales for professional inter-county competition by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), in 2003.
After England, Pakistan inaugural competition in 2004 in the country in which thirteen teams from different parts of the country participated with Faisalabad Wolves the first winners.
On 17 February 2005 Australia defeated New Zealand in the first men’s full international Twenty20 match, played at Eden Park in Auckland.
Every two years an ICC World Twenty20 tournament is to take place, except in the event of ICC Cricket World Cup being scheduled in the same year, in which case it will be held the year before.
The first tournament was in 2007 in South Africa where India defeated Pakistan in the final. The second tournament was won by Pakistan who beat Sri Lanka by 8 wickets in England on 21 June 2009. The 2010 ICC World Twenty20 tournament was held in West Indies in May 2010, where England defeated Australia by 7 wickets.
Records in T 20 cricket:
- Highest individual score Brendon McCullum158* (74) Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (2008 Indian Premier League)
- Highest team total – by Sri Lanka 260/6 (20 overs) vs Kenya 88/10 (19.3 overs) (2007 ICC World Twenty20)
- Most sixes in an innings – Graham Napier (Essex) 16 (2008 Twenty20 Cup)
- Most sixes in career – Chris Gayle 222
- Most runs in career – David Hussey 4301
- Most wickets in career- Dirk Nannes 178
- Most wickets in International T20 – Saeed Ajmal 58
- Highest partnerships for any wicket – Adam Gilchrist and Shaun Marsh, 206 2nd wicket(2011 Indian Premier League)
- Fastest hundred – Andrew Symonds (Kent) 34 balls’ (2004 Twenty20 Cup)
- Fastest fifty – Yuvraj Singh 12 balls (2007 ICC World Twenty20)
- Most hundreds – Chris Gayle 8 (3 for RCB, Barisal Burners, 1 for each West Indies, Sydney Thunder, Mountaineers cricket team)
- Best innings bowling figures – Arul Suppiah (Somerset) 6/5 in 3.4 Overs (2011 Friends Life t20)
- Most runs in one over – Scott Styris 38, 8 balls: 4 sixes, 2 fours, 4 byes + 2 no balls (2012 Friends Life t2o) against Gloucestershire’s James Fuller
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