AUCKLAND: A T20 match between two domestic sides Auckland and Central Districts has broken the record of 30 sixes in a match.
According to details, as the senior side of Black caps were busy in making the batting records against Australia in the Second Test in Perth 2 days ago, now a domestic Twenty20 match at Eden Park was running roughshod over the record books.
The clash between Auckland and Central Districts in the Georgie Pie Super Smash, the country’s premier T20 tournament, witnessed a whopping 31 sixes to set a new world record for a T20 match.
In Sunday’s match, Auckland openers Jeet Raval (36) and Brad Chopra (25) smote four sixes between them before the innings picked serious momentum when the left-hander Colin Munro came to the crease.
Munro, who would go on to hit eight maximums, was soon joined by Colin de Grandhomme, statistically the most destructive batsman in T20 cricket with career strike rate of 169.36. The pair of Colins blasted 133 off just 59 balls for the fourth wicket and ended the innings at 217, with Grandhomme hammering five of the 17 sixes hit in the Auckland innings.
Central Districts in reply hit 14 sixes, taking the match tally to 31 and breaking the previous record of 30 sixes set twice, first during an IPL game between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals at the Chidambaram Stadium in 2010, and then in a World T20 match between Ireland and Netherlands at Sylhet in 2014.
The Districts’ charge was led by 22-year old Will Young, who came in at No.3 and belted 96 off 50 balls, with seven sixes. Two other batsmen – Indika Senarathne and Tom Bruce – hit three sixes each, while late-order batsman Adam Milne hit one. Central Districts fell 11 runs short of the target of 218, as Auckland registered their first win of the tournament.
It was a brutal outing for the bowlers. Central Districts seamer Andrew Mathieson, who earlier this year made his international debut against England, ended up conceding 70 runs off his four overs, the equal second-most expensive spell in the 13-year history of T20 cricket. It was also the most expensive four-over quota in T20s in New Zealand.
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