A new world record has been created in T20 cricket. Hamza Saleem Dar smacked a 43-ball 193 in the European cricket series. It is now the new record in the history of T10 cricket. No team has scored more than 190 runs in an innings in the format. The previous highest score in the format was 162. It came in the most popular league of the T10 format.
The previous highest score was registered in the Abu Dhabi T10 league. Saleem Dar seemed as if he batted on the track for years. In his stay in the middle, he scored a lot of boundaries and sixes. The bowling attack seemed tailor-made for the batter to script history. The match was played on a synthetic track, where the pitch happened to exist.
The boundaries were so short and almost seemed as if even the top edges were eligible to fly away for boundaries. Dar’s knock included some shots that were dispatched out of the arena and yet seemed as if they hardly travelled over 80 meters. For the history books, it would remain the highest score by a player or a team in the T10 format.
The increasing popularity of T10
The format of T10 has been getting widely popular in the cricket world, although the top sides in cricket like Australia, India, and England have not approved it as an official format of the game. Earlier this year, Zimbabwe started their own T10 league where some of the players from Africa took part in it. The marketing for the same was done with rigorous efforts.
Although there has been an issue regarding the lack of turnout, there are enough viewers for the format on the streaming platforms. Many like to watch the batters scoring runs for fun in the format. The advantage of the format is its duration. It is 10 overs per side and does not take much time to get concluded. An average T10 match gets finished in about 90 minutes to 2 hours, which is much less compared to a T20 match.
Watch the knock of Hamza Saleem Dar here:
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Hamza Saleem Dar’s 43-ball 1??9??3?? not out is the highest individual score in a 10-over match.? #EuropeanCricket #EuropeanCricketSeries #StrongerTogether pic.twitter.com/4RQEKMynu2
— European Cricket (@EuropeanCricket) December 6, 2023
