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Top score by a batsman whose teammates scored less than 10 each in a T20

Saad Nasim was the latest batsman to achieve the feat when he scored 58 for Lahore Lions.

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In the Qualifiers of Champions League T20 2014 (CLT20), Saad Nasim scored 58 runs when all the other 10 batsmen of his team did not even reach double digits. Bharath Seervi lists some numbers on a single player completely dominating a T20 inning.

In the third qualifying match of ongoing CLT20 at Raipur, Lahore Lions were set a target of 171 runs by Northern Knights. Lions were reduced to 19 runs for five wickets by Knights bowlers Tim Southee and Trent Boult. When none of the batsmen were finding the form, Saad Nasim was the only one incrementing the scoreboard of Lions. Saad Nasim was out for 58 runs as the final wicket on the final ball of 18th over. Nasim scored 58 but the next highest score was just eight runs by Imran Ali.

Saad Nasim’s 58 runs is only the third occasion of a batsmen scoring half-century in a T20 when the other team-mates all scored less than ten runs. Before Nasim, Chris Gayle had scored 63 runs in a T20I for West Indies against Sri Lanka at The Oval in the 2009 ICC T20 World Cup when the other batsmen of the team did not reach double digits. Gayle’s 63 runs are the highest in such a case. The table below lists the complete details.

Players scoring 20 or more runs in a T20 innings when all the others scored single digits (all out innings only)

Runs Batsman Team Against Bat Pos. Team Total Venue Year
63 Chris Gayle West Indies Sri Lanka 1 101 The Oval 2009
61 Jimmy Adams Hampshire Somerset 2 97 Southampton 2010
58 Saad Nasim Lahore Lions Northern Knights 5 98 Raipur 2014
45 Scott Styris New Zealand Pakistan 6 80 Christchurch 2010
44 Gulbadin Naib Afghanistan England 8 80 Colombo (RPS) 2012
42 Kane Williamson New Zealand Sri Lanka 2 60 Chittagong 2014
42 Loots Bosman Eagles Titans 4 94 Bloemfontein 2004
42 Jeevantha Kulatunga Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club Nondescripts Cricket Club 1 94 Colombo (CCC) 2012
35 Arun Karthik Tamil Nadu Bengal 7 59 Hyderabad 2011
33 James Franklin Wellington Canterbury 4 90 Wellington 2012
28 Glenn Foxcroft Namibia Northerns 8 28 Windhoek 2011
28 Tanmay Mishra Kenya Ireland 5 71 Dubai 2012
26 Irfan Pathan India Australia 7 74 Melbourne 2008
25 Donovan Matthews Turks and Caicos Islands Montserrat 4 67 Coolidge 2008
25 Naved-ul-Hasan Sussex Surrey 3 68 Hove 2007
25 Shivnarine Chanderpaul Derbyshire Leicestershire 3 72 Derby 2010
23 Danuja Nandana Panadura Sports Club Chilaw Marians 11 59 Colombo (CCC) 2012
23 David Hemp Bermuda Guyana 1 62 Coolidge 2008
20 Duvvarapu Sivakumar Andhra Kerala 8 69 Vizianagram 2014

 

The highest percentage of runs scored by a batsman in T20 innings is 70% by Kane Williamson. He scored 42 runs out of his team’s 60 runs in the ICC World Cup 2014 match against Sri Lanka at Chittagong. It is the highest percentage of runs by a batsman in any International cricket inning. There has been only one more instance of a batsman scoring more than 65% of team’s runs —Justin Kreusch for Warriors against Titans at Benoni in 2006. The next highest in an International T20 inning is 62.37% by Gayle (63 out of 101 runs). The table below lists all the instances of a batsman scoring 55% or more of the team’s runs.

Highest % of runs in a T20 innings (all out innings only)

% Runs Runs Team Total Batsman For Against Venue Year
70.00 42 60 Kane Williamson New Zealand Sri Lanka Chittagong 2014
65.17 73 112 Justin Kruesch Warriors Titans Benoni 2006
62.88 61 97 Jimmy Adams Hampshire Somerset Southampton 2010
62.37 63 101 Chris Gayle West Indies Sri Lanka Oval 2009
62.23 89 143 Wes Durston Derbyshire Leicestershire Chesterfield 2014
60.00 78 130 JP Duminy South Africa Australia Melbourne 2009
59.32 35 59 ArunKarthik Tamil Nadu Bengal Hyderabad 2011
59.18 58 98 Saad Nasim Lahore Lions Northern Knights Raipur 2014
58.62 85 145 Naman Ojha Madhya Pradesh Rajasthan Nagpur 2013
58.51 79 135 Rohit Sharma India Australia Bridgetown 2010
58.18 64 110 Gihan Rupasinghe Moors Sinhalese Colombo (RPS) 2012
57.69 60 104 Ryan ten Doeschate Essex Surrey Chelmsford 2013
57.14 72 126 Farrukh Shehzad SBP United Bank Lahore 2013
56.63 64 113 Dinesh Chandimal Ruhuna Wayamba Moratuwa 2010
56.63 64 113 Robin Uthappa Karnataka Andhra Chennai 2011
56.52 78 138 Nawroz Mangal Afghanistan Trinidad & Tobago King City 2011
56.25 45 80 Scott Styris New Zealand Pakistan Christchurch 2010
55.22 37 67 Chris Adams Sussex Hampshire Hove 2004
55.00 44 80 Gulbadin Naib Afghanistan England Colombo (RPS) 2012

(Bharath Seervi is a cricket statistician who is obsessed with digging numbers, facts and records related to the game. An active member of Society of Cricket Statisticians of India, he blogs at www.cricketseervistats.blogspot.com. He can be followed on Twitter at www.twitter.com/SeerviBharath and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/SeerviCricket)

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