The Oval Invincibles have been at their emphatic finest on Monday night time 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 night time, limiting the hosts to 133 all out, although throughout Saturday’s win in opposition to Welsh Hearth, it was all concerning the batters as they racked up 226-4 – a brand new document rating for the Hundred competitors.
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 harmful finisher Donovan Ferreira (18 off 6), thrilling the South London crowd with an innings complete of 17 sixes.
While stats for the Hundred format are included beneath the T20 umbrella, the Invincibles scoring charge 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 gentle of occasions at The Oval on Saturday, we have a look again at when groups smashed the document complete in different T20 leagues around the globe.
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Somerset 265-5 vs Derbyshire (Vitality Blast, July 2022)
We start near dwelling within the UK’s long-standing Vitality Blast competitors and a recreation I personally 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 guide their spot at Finals Day.
The ultimate last-eight contest of the week paired the South Group’s second-placed facet Somerset at dwelling to Derbyshire from the North part, who had solely reached the knockout levels for the fourth time within the competitors’s historical past.
Derbyshire gained 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 an attractive summer time’s night.
South African Rilee Rossouw grabbed the headlines with a 36-ball 93, together with eight fours and 7 sixes, with assist 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 last 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 obtained out of there with spectacular figures of 2-16 from 4 overs however it was an evening to neglect 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 night time 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 most important franchise league of all of them, so somewhat fittingly the best complete on this listing and the biggest in home T20 cricket.
Sunrisers Hyderabad are chargeable for 5 of the six greatest scores in IPL historical past, all of which have come over the previous two seasons.
Their complete 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 solution 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 just a few 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 probably the most economical at 32 from three overs.
In a staggering recreation that continues to be 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 complete in T20 historical past.
Earlier than the 2024 version, RCB’s complete of 263 from 2013 had remained the rating to beat however Sunrisers Hyderabad’s ultra-aggressive batting strategy made gentle work of that document they usually as soon as once more threatened the 300-barrier mark in 2025 – a feat solely achieved 3 times in T20 historical past – with scores of 286 and 278 to dominate the leaderboard.
Melbourne Stars 273-2 vs Hobart Hurricanes (Large Bash League, January 2022)
Hopping to the land Down Underneath now, the place the MCG have been handled to a surprising efficiency from the ‘Large 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 one 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 up to now.
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 last, 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 section.
Trinbago Knight Riders 267-2 vs Jamaica Tallawahs (Caribbean Premier League, September 2019)
The CPL is at the moment in progress and you’d count on a contest full of West Indian aptitude to be chargeable 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.
The truth is, it was Kiwi Colin Munro who did a number of the harm at Sabina Park, remaining unbeaten on 96 after hanging 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 crew rating in franchise cricket, albeit they got a serving to hand from some sloppy fielding and beneficiant items from the bowlers.
The legend Chris Gayle might solely stand and watch within the area for the opposition, unable to copy 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 complete 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 might 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 certainly one of its important 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 up to now.
Quinton de Kock and Ben McDermott offered 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 another run than your complete Pretoria batting lineup might muster as they slumped to a heavy 151-run defeat.
Klaasen’s hundred stays certainly one of 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 current entrant in one other fast-growing T20 league because the proliferation of world franchise tournaments continues at a charge 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 last, 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 last 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 night time belonged to the 26-year-old Kiwi as his facet registered a cushty 123-run win.
Unsurprisingly, Allen’s effort is the best in MLC historical past and the crew complete stays 23 runs forward of the Unicorn’s next-best effort later within the event in opposition to eventual winners MI New York, although that could be beneath menace subsequent yr because the 2025 version noticed a exceptional 18 scores of 200+ throughout its 34 matches which was 3 times greater than the earlier two years mixed.
By Dom Harris
