New Zealand's Better Finn Allen has become the highest batter in an innings at T20. Playing for San Francisco Unicorns in the opening match of Major League Cricket (MLC) 2025, he scored 151 off 51 balls against Washington Freedom. He broke Chris Gayle's record by scoring 19 sixes in his innings.
Gayle hit 18 sixes against Dhaka Dynamites while playing for Rangpur Riders in the Bangladesh Premier League match in 2017. Sahil hit 18 sixes in T20 matches against Cyprus in 2024 while playing for Estonia.
Finn Len batted at a strike rate of 296.07 in this innings and completed his century in just 34 balls. He came to open for the team. Len hit 19 sixes and 5 fours in his 151 -run innings.
The highest scoring record in one innings could not break by just 25 runs Allen failed to break Chris Gayle's record of scoring the highest run in one innings in T20 cricket by just 25 runs.
Gail scored 175 for Royal Challengers Bengaluru against Pune Warriors in IPL 2013. Now the record has survived 25 runs as Phil Ele has played 151 runs.
San Francisco Unicorns won the match by 123 runs San Francisco Unicorns won the match by 123 runs. In this match, Washington Freedom's team captain Glenn Maxwell won the toss and decided to bowl first. San Francisco Unicorns' team lost 269 runs after losing 5 wickets due to the batter's performance.
At the same time, by chasing 270 runs, Washington Freedom was able to score only 146 runs in 13.1 overs.
San Francisco Unicorns captain Corey Anderson and Washington Freedom captain Glenn Maxwell during the toss.
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