They also shattered the record for most sixes in a T20 innings
ESPNcricinfo staff05-Dec-2024
[File photo] Vishnu Solanki and Abhimanyusingh Rajput hit half-centuries•BCCI
Baroda broke the record for the highest total in men’s T20 cricket when they smashed 349 for 5 against Sikkim in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in Indore on Thursday. They surpassed Zimbabwe’s 344 for 4 against Gambia in Nairobi in October.In all, Baroda hit 37 sixes in their innings, shattering another T20 record. Zimbabwe were the holders of the record for most sixes (27) in an innings – also in that game against Gambia.Related
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Shashwat Rawat, who was recently part of the India A side in the Duleep Trophy, and Abhimanyusingh Rajput, who clattered a 19-ball half-century, set the platform for Baroda’s mammoth total with a 92-run opening partnership inside the powerplay. Bhanu Pania launched from that platform and went on to hit a century off 42 balls, including five fours and 15 sixes. He scored his first fifty off 20 balls and second off 22 balls.This was Pania’s first hundred in white-ball domestic cricket, in his 39th innings. He remained unbeaten on 134 off 51 balls, going at a strike rate of 262.75.