The Oval Invincibles have been at their emphatic greatest on Monday evening as they eased to a seven-wicket victory over Southern Courageous to maneuver clear on the high of the league desk.
It was the bowlers who set the foundations for the two-time defending champions in Southampton final evening, proscribing the hosts to 133 all out, although throughout Saturday’s win in opposition to Welsh Fireplace, it was all concerning the batters as they racked up 226-4 – a brand new document rating for the Hundred competition.
Jordan Cox starred with an unbeaten 86 off simply 29 balls however there have been additionally helpful cameos from openers Will Jacks (38 off 28) and Tawanda Muyeye (33 off 15), in addition to in-form Sam Curran (34 off 19) and damaging finisher Donovan Ferreira (18 off 6), thrilling the South London crowd with an innings whole of 17 sixes.
While stats for the Hundred format are included below the T20 umbrella, the Invincibles scoring fee was equal to a complete of 271 if adjusted accordingly which might have comfortably ranked inside the high 20 highest-ever innings totals in T20 cricket.
In mild of occasions at The Oval on Saturday, we have a look again at when groups smashed the document whole in different T20 leagues all over the world.
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Somerset 265-5 vs Derbyshire (Vitality Blast, July 2022)
We start near residence within the UK’s long-standing Vitality Blast competitors and a recreation I actually was lucky sufficient, or unlucky as a Derbyshire fan, to witness in individual at Taunton three years in the past as Somerset clubbed an English T20 document to ebook their spot at Finals Day.
The ultimate last-eight contest of the week paired the South Group’s second-placed facet Somerset at residence to Derbyshire from the North part, who had solely reached the knockout phases for the fourth time within the competitors’s historical past.
Derbyshire received the toss and elected to area however that was about as a lot pleasure as that they had because the Somerset batters set about placing on a present for a sold-out Taunton crowd on a wonderful summer time’s night.
South African Rilee Rossouw grabbed the headlines with a 36-ball 93, together with eight fours and 7 sixes, with help from Tom Banton (73 off 41) in a second-wicket partnership value 102 runs in 8.2 overs.
Tom Lammonby hit a fast 31 in simply 9 balls because the hosts added 56 within the remaining three overs to complete on 265 and surpass the 261-2 made by the Birmingham Bears in opposition to Notts Outlaws at Trent Bridge lower than a month earlier than.
Remarkably, Derbyshire seamer George Scrimshaw bought out of there with spectacular figures of 2-16 from 4 overs but it surely was an evening to overlook for spinner Mattie McKiernan who set an undesirable document for the most costly spell in T20 historical past (0-82 off 4 overs), together with a seven-ball over which introduced 36 runs – his figures have since been crushed by Gambia’s Musa Jobarteh (93 runs) throughout a T20 Worldwide in opposition to Zimbabwe in October 2024.
To compound an already brutal evening for the East Midlands outfit, they then folded miserably to 74 all out, which means the 191-run margin was additionally the heaviest T20 Blast defeat.
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Sunrisers Hyderabad 287-3 vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru (Indian Premier League, April 2024)
Transferring on to the largest franchise league of all of them, so relatively fittingly the best whole on this record and the most important in home T20 cricket.
Sunrisers Hyderabad are liable for 5 of the six greatest scores in IPL historical past, all of which have come over the previous two seasons.
Their whole of 287 in opposition to RCB got here in 2024 as Australian opener Travis Head hit a then fourth-fastest IPL century off simply 39 balls, with 9 fours and eight sixes, placing on a gap stand of 108 with Abhishek Sharma.
Heinrich Klaasen smashed seven sixes on his strategy to 67, while Aiden Markram and Abdul Samad additionally added fast fireplace 30’s as they beat their very own document of 277-3 which that they had set only some weeks prior in opposition to Mumbai Indians.
England’s Reece Topley conceded 68 runs from his 4 overs, the joint-seventh costliest IPL spell at the moment, while Will Jacks’ off-spin proved essentially the most economical at 32 from three overs.
In a staggering recreation that is still the highest-scoring T20 combination match ever, RCB made a courageous try on the goal to complete 25 runs brief on 262-7, the joint-largest second innings whole in T20 historical past.
Earlier than the 2024 version, RCB’s whole of 263 from 2013 had remained the rating to beat however Sunrisers Hyderabad’s ultra-aggressive batting method made mild work of that document they usually as soon as once more threatened the 300-barrier mark in 2025 – a feat solely achieved thrice in T20 historical past – with scores of 286 and 278 to dominate the leaderboard.
Melbourne Stars 273-2 vs Hobart Hurricanes (Massive Bash League, January 2022)
Hopping to the land Down Beneath now, the place the MCG have been handled to a shocking efficiency from the ‘Massive Present’ himself Glenn Maxwell in 2022 because the Melbourne Stars racked up 273-2, which at that second in time was a T20 franchise document.
Fittingly taking part in in his a centesimal BBL match, Maxwell hit 22 fours and 4 sixes in an astonishing unbeaten 154 off simply 64 balls on the high of the order, the best particular person rating within the BBL and the Eleventh-highest in T20 historical past to this point.
Coincidentally, Maxwell was partnered by Marcus Stoinis (75* off 31) on the different finish for a lot of his innings, whom he knocked off the highest perch when he went previous 147 which Stoinis made on the identical floor two years earlier.
Maxwell raced to his century off 41 balls, two wanting the BBL document which was equalled by Mitch Owen within the 2025 remaining, including 132 for the third wicket in 9 overs to arrange a powerful 106-run victory in what was the ultimate recreation of the group part.
Trinbago Knight Riders 267-2 vs Jamaica Tallawahs (Caribbean Premier League, September 2019)
The CPL is presently in progress and you’ll anticipate a contest full of West Indian aptitude to be liable for some big scoring contests.
Nonetheless, the document rating has remained untouched prior to now 5 editions for the reason that Trinbago Knight Riders made 267-2 within the tenth recreation of CPL 2019.
In reality, it was Kiwi Colin Munro who did lots of the injury at Sabina Park, remaining unbeaten on 96 after putting six fours and eight sixes in his 50-ball innings.
Lendl Simmons had earlier made 86 from simply 42 balls in a 124-run stand for the second-wicket, earlier than the big-hitting Kieron Pollard smashed a 17-ball 45 to catapult the Knight Riders to a complete which was then the best workforce rating in franchise cricket, albeit they got a serving to hand from some sloppy fielding and beneficiant presents from the bowlers.
The legend Chris Gayle may solely stand and watch within the area for the opposition, unable to duplicate such fireworks of his personal as his facet fell 41 runs brief in pursuit, although the 493 match combination runs was solely 4 lower than the document again then.
Guyana Amazon Warriors got here inside one run of equalling the document whole in opposition to St Kitts and Nevis Patriots through the 2024 competitors, although Shimron Hetmyer’s impressed knock of 91 with zero fours however 11 sixes may solely assist his facet submit 266-7.
Durban Tremendous Giants 254-4 vs Pretoria Capitals (SA20, February 2023)
The inaugural version of South Africa’s premier white ball competitors noticed one among its major stars Heinrich Klaasen strike a blistering ton to propel his facet to 254 which stays the one rating in extra of 250 within the competitors to this point.
Quinton de Kock and Ben McDermott supplied a fast platform within the powerplay, earlier than additional carnage ensued as Klaasen raced to his first of 4 profession T20 centuries, reaching three figures off 43 balls from the penultimate supply of the innings.
On a night the place no bowlers have been spared – Josh Little’s 4 overs for 39 the spotlight – Klaasen’s assault ended unbeaten on 104 from 44 balls which was yet one more run than all the Pretoria batting lineup may muster as they slumped to a heavy 151-run defeat.
Klaasen’s hundred stays one among solely seven within the competitors’s three-year historical past, although was crushed by England’s Will Jacks because the quickest when he reached the milestone for the Capitals from 41 balls in the identical fixture the next yr.
San Francisco Unicorns 269-5 vs Washington Freedom (Main League Cricket, June 2025)
A latest entrant in one other fast-growing T20 league because the proliferation of worldwide franchise tournaments continues at a fee of knots.
The third instalment of USA’s emergence within the brief format ecosystem started with a bang within the first recreation at California’s historic Oakland Coliseum as New Zealand’s Finn Allen broke Chris Gayle’s sixes document in a staggering 151 off simply 51 balls.
The opener’s 19 sixes was one higher than the 18 launched by the West Indies nice through the 2017 Bangladesh Premier League remaining, additionally shattering the document for the quickest 150 in simply 49 balls.
His explosive 34-ball century was the second-fastest in franchise historical past, behind Gayle’s 30-ball blitz through the 2013 IPL, while his remaining rating of 151 sees him joint-14th for the best particular person runs in a T20 innings ever.
Home-based duo Sanjay Krishnamurthi (36 with 4 sixes) and Hassan Khan (38 with three sixes) each made helpful contributions however the evening belonged to the 26-year-old Kiwi as his facet registered a snug 123-run win.
Unsurprisingly, Allen’s effort is the best in MLC historical past and the workforce whole stays 23 runs forward of the Unicorn’s next-best effort later within the match in opposition to eventual winners MI New York, although that could be below menace subsequent yr because the 2025 version noticed a exceptional 18 scores of 200+ throughout its 34 matches which was thrice greater than the earlier two years mixed.
By Dom Harris
