In a remarkable display of explosive batting and strategic gameplay, the Indian cricket team achieved the second-highest team total in Men’s T20 cricket history, amassing a staggering 297/6 against Bangladesh in Hyderabad. This monumental achievement falls just short of Nepal’s blazing 314/3 against Mongolia during the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou.
India’s exceptional performance was marked by a record-breaking boundary count during the match. With an impressive tally of 47 boundaries, comprised of 25 fours and 22 sixes, India set a new benchmark for the most boundaries hit by any team in Men’s T20Is. This surpassed the previous record held by the Czech Republic, which tallied 43 boundaries against Turkey in 2019.
The 22 sixes India smashed on Saturday represent the highest number they have ever achieved in a T20I, surpassing their previous record of 21 against Sri Lanka in Indore in 2017. Additionally, this feat aligns with the joint-most number of sixes hit by a full-member team in the format, placing India alongside teams such as Afghanistan, who managed similar tallies in different matches, and West Indies, who achieved 22 sixes against South Africa in Centurion in 2023.
Moreover, India scored a phenomenal 232 runs just from boundaries, thereby setting another all-time high in the T20 format, which exceeded the 216-run boundary count recorded by Punjab against Andhra last year. The prior T20I record was 212 by Nepal against Mongolia during their historic 314/3 innings.
The match also featured a remarkable total boundary count of 70 (44 fours and 26 sixes), ranking it the third highest in any Men’s T20I match. This comes after South Africa and West Indies collectively hit 81 boundaries last year, and Bulgaria and Serbia achieved similarly impressive tallies in quick succession during games in Sofia in 2022.
Central to India’s success was Sanju Samson, whose lightning-fast century, scored in just 40 balls, marked the second-fastest in Indian T20I history and the fourth-quickest among full-member teams. Samson went on to score 111 runs, marking the sixth-highest individual score by a designated wicketkeeper in Men’s T20Is and setting a new Indian record by surpassing Ishan Kishan’s 89 against Sri Lanka in 2022.
Samson’s dominance was underscored further during the 10th over, when he hammered 30 runs – including five sixes – off Rishad Hossain, a feat only bettered by Yuvraj Singh among Indian players in T20I cricket.
Leveraging a powerful start, India posted their joint-highest score during the PowerPlay phase in T20Is, reaching 82/1, a record they previously achieved against Scotland during the T20 World Cup 2021 in Dubai.
. Demonstrating swift momentum, India reached the 100-run mark in a mere 7.1 overs, their quickest in this format.
By the 14 over-mark, India had escalated their score to 200, marking it as the second-fastest 200 in T20Is, closely behind South Africa’s record of reaching 200 in 13.5 overs against West Indies.
India’s half-time score read 152/1 after 10 overs, placing it third on the list of highest scores at that juncture in T20Is, trailing only behind remarkable innings by Australia against Scotland and Estonia against Cyprus.
The formidable partnership between Samson and Suryakumar Yadav for the second wicket yielded 173 runs at a run-rate of 15.04, ranking as the second-fastest among 150-plus stands in Men’s T20Is. It was also one of India’s top partnerships, trailing only two other monumental stands – Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh’s 190* against Afghanistan, and Samson and Deepak Hooda’s 176-run stand against Ireland in 2022.
Aggregating 461 runs in total, the game is now recorded as the seventh-highest run feast in Men’s T20I history and the second-highest on Indian soil, narrowly shy of the 472 run-fest between Afghanistan and Ireland in 2019.
In T20I format, India continues to showcase explosive gameplay with 37 instances of breaching the 200-run mark, the most by any team. This forms a stark contrast to other cricketing giants, where no other international side has crossed the 200-run threshold more than 23 times.
India’s resounding 133-run win margin in Hyderabad stands as their third largest in T20Is, trailing behind victories by 168 runs against New Zealand and a 143-run conquest over Ireland in previous years. This recent success also underscores India’s prowess as the first team to secure 20-plus T20I wins in two separate calendar years, adding to their previous 28-win record in 2022. Their win percentage of 95.45% in 2024 is unparalleled, cementing their dominance in the short format of the game.