Nepal Achieves T20I Milestones: Highest Score, Fastest 50, and Century
Nepal’s men’s cricket team achieved some incredible records at the ongoing Asian Games cricket championship in Hangzhou, China. They did this in a match against Mongolia.
During the game, Nepal showed remarkable skill by scoring a massive total of 314 runs for the loss of 3 wickets in just 20 overs. This broke the previous record for the highest T20I total, which was 278/3, set by Afghanistan against Ireland in 2019.
Nepal’s batsmen also hit an astonishing 26 sixes in one inning, which is the most by any team in T20I history for a single inning. This broke Afghanistan’s record of 22 sixes when they scored 278/3 in 2019.
Two individual records were set too. Dipendra Singh Airee, a Nepalese all-rounder, reached a half-century in just nine deliveries, beating Indian cricket star Yuvraj Singh’s record of a 12-ball fifty from the 2007 ICC T20 World Cup. Airee finished his innings with an unbeaten 52 runs off only 10 balls, including eight sixes. His striking rate of 520 is the highest in a T20I inning.
Kushal Malla achieved the fastest T20I century, doing it in just 34 deliveries, outpacing renowned T20I players like India’s Rohit Sharma and South Africa’s David Miller. Malla scored 137 runs off 50 balls, with eight fours and an impressive 12 sixes.
Mongolia faced a tough target of 315 runs to win. India’s men’s cricket campaign begins on October 3 in the quarterfinals, with the final set for October 7.
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