Highest strike rate in a single T20I innings
Since T20 cricket made its debut, cricket has grown in popularity. The 2007 T20 World Cup held a lot of potential and the experts were aware that the game wouldn’t remain the same. For more than ten years, the game has changed from being a one-day sport to a three-hour amusement. The teams are no longer looking for conventional hits; instead, they are searching for explosive batters.
The strike rate, not the averages or quantity of runs, is what really counts. A team needs players who can change the face of the game with their powerful and quick knocks because that is the prerequisite in the 20-over format. Let us have a look at the top three batters with the highest strike rate in T20I innings:
357.14 – Colin Munro vs Sri Lanka in 2016, Shahid Afridi vs South Africa in 2010 and Asif Ali vs Afghanistan in 2021
Three players hold the joint record for the third-highest strike rate in T20I innings. The record was created by Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi in the year 2010 when the veteran played against South Africa and hit a 7-ball 25 runs. It was then equaled by New Zealand’s Colin Munro in 2016 when the Black Caps toured Sri Lanka. Munro smashed a half-century off just 14 balls at a brilliant strike rate of 357.14. Pakistan’s Asif Ali joined the two in the elite club during the ICC T20 World Cup last year.
362.50 – Yuvraj Singh vs England in 2007 and Dinesh Karthik vs Bangladesh in 2018
Yuvraj Singh’s knock of a 16-ball 58 is still remembered by every cricket fan. During the inaugural ICC World Twenty20, Singh smacked England’s Stuart Broad for six sixes in an over to hit a half-century in mere 12 balls. He had gone bonkers and batted at a humungous strike rate of 362.50. Dinesh Karthik leveled his record during the finals of the Nidahas T20 tri-series against Bangladesh. Karthik played the finisher’s game and smashed 29 runs off mere 8 balls to equal the strike rate record as India lifted the cup.
414.28 – Dwayne Smith vs Bangladesh in 2007
Dwayne Smith’s knock of a seven-ball 29, which comprised of four sixes and a four, is one to be remembered. During the ICC World Twenty20, Smith had walked in to bat at No. 7, and he played the all-rounders role with perfection in the death overs. He smashed Mohammad Ashraf for three back-to-back sixes and followed it with a four, and hit another six off Shakib Al Hasan’s over before getting out. His cameo powered West Indies to a decent total as he batted at a strike rate of 414.28.
