Nepali batsmen broke several records and scored a record 273 runs in the opening match of the Men’s Asian Games against Mongolia in Hangzhou. Here’s a quick look at some of the biggest records they’ve broken. 0 – Number of times the team has scored 300 runs in the men’s T20 innings. Nepal’s score of 314-3 against Mongolia in the Asian Games is a first for the team. Afghanistan’s score of 278 for 3 against Ireland in Dehradun in 2019 was their highest ever T20 score.These are also the highest totals in men’s international T20 competitions.
34′ – Balls shot by Nepal’s Kushal Malla, who reached a hundred, the fastest in a T20I. The previous record of 35 balls was held by David Miller, Rohit Sharma and Czech Sudesh Wickramasekar. 9 – Balls scored by Nepalese Dipendra Singh Airee to reach fifty. There were no fours or sixes in Airee’s innings. It was the fastest fifty in any T20, breaking the previous record of 12 balls held by Yuvraj Singh, Chris Gayle and Hazratullah Zazai.While Yuvraj’s fifty came in T20Is, the other two came in T20s. , ,273 – Nepal’s winning margin against Mongolia. This is the highest margin in terms of runs in a T20. The biggest margin so far was the Czech Republic’s 257th win over Turkey in 2019.
520 – Airee’s strike rate during his unbeaten 52 off 10 balls. This is the first time in T20 that a batsman has scored more than 500 in an innings of 10 or more balls. The previous best strike rate was Malcolm Waller’s strike rate of 430 in a ten-ball innings against the Matabeleland Tuskers in Zimbabwe’s domestic T20 competition in 2016.
26 – sixes scored by Nepalese batsmen in this game – the highest strike rate of any team in a T20 international. Previous highs were 22, with Afghanistan v Ireland in Dehradun in 2019 and West Indies v South Africa in Centurion earlier this year.This is also the highest number in any T20 match, surpassing the 23 sixes hit by Balkh legend batsmen against Kabul Zwanan in the Afghan Premier League in 2018. 19y 206d – Malla’s century on Wednesday, making him the second youngest batsman to score a century in men’s T20Is. The youngest is Frenchman Gustav Mckeon, who scored two centuries before turning 19 in July 2022. ,
.56 – Percentage of Mongolian players who were considered extras – 23 out of 41 total are extras. This is the highest percentage of team runs scored by complements in the men’s T20I innings (minimum five overs).The previous record was 34.6% for China, who produced nine extras in 26 games against Thailand earlier this year. 1 – Centuries Asian Games, 137* ago Malla. Khalid Latif scored an unbeaten 103 for Pakistan against China in the quarterfinals of the 2010 men’s tournament, which had neither T20I nor T20 status.
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