Australia defeat NZ in 5th T20I; here're are records broken
Talk about a mouth-watering contest and that is what exactly the 5th T20I between New Zealand and Australia was. Records tumbled, as the Kiwis posted 243/6 on board. It should have been a difficult task but the Aussies were up for the challenge and chased down the mammoth total with 5 wickets and 7 balls to spare. Here are the records that got broken.
Records tumble in Auckland
Australia's 245/5 is the highest T20I chase in cricket history. There were 32 sixes (18 by New Zealand and 14 by Australia) smashed in this fixture, which now equals the record for the most sixes in a single T20I game.
Martin Guptill smashes his way into record books
Martin Guptill is now the leading run scorer in T20Is. He has scored 2,188 runs, moving ahead of Brendon McCullum on the all-time charts. Kohli needs 233 runs to make the top spot his own. Guptill has now hit the second most number of T20Is sixes with 98 to his name in 71 innings. Gayle leads the charts with 103 sixes in 51 innings.
Warner hits fifty off just 20 balls
This fixture is the first in T20I history, which featured century stands for the opening wicket by both the teams. David Warner has now equalled the record held by Yuvraj Singh for the most number of T20Is fifties in 20 or fewer balls. Yuvraj and Warner have achieved the feat on 3 occasions while Gayle, Maxwell and Munro have done it twice.
Unsold at IPL auctions, Guptill now has two T20I tons
Martin Guptill's 49-ball hundred is the fastest by a New Zealander surpassing Brendon McCullum's record of 50 balls. Guptill is also the 7th cricket in T20Is to score two hundreds.
Batsman run amok at Auckland
The 64 runs conceded by Andrew Tye in his four-over spell are the most by an Australian in a T20I game. Former pacer, Brett Lee had conceded 56 runs against West Indies in the 2009 WT20 game at The Oval. Ben Wheeler conceded 64 runs in 3.1 overs. These are the worst figures by a New Zealander.
