Cricket or video games! This question naturally comes to mind when one hears the score of the game. 417 runs in 20 overs. 47 sixes. Total 66 in the match. This has never happened before. So far no team has crossed the 300-run mark in international T20 cricket.
But the old Cheltenham Premier T20 saw such a strange phenomenon. The match was played between Dumbleton Cricket Club and Hatherley and Readings CC. Dumbleton won at 188 on Tuesday.
The match scorecard looks more like a video game than a cricket match. It is also possible! 646 runs in one match. Regardless of class. Shocked cricket fans.
A Dumbleton batsman scores a double century. He scored just 54 balls. Hit 47 sixes in England’s club team. Openers Thomas Kelly and Ewan Gage started brilliantly. The pair added 112 runs in 6.1 overs.
Kelly was dismissed for 64 off 25 balls. Gage then puts the responsibility on his shoulders. He remained unbeaten with 206 off 55 balls. There were 13 fours and 23 sixes in the innings.
Dan Holland scored a century in the seventh over. He scored 122 runs off 37 balls. He was at the crease for only 41 minutes. He hit four fours and 16 sixes. Gage and Holland put on a partnership of 211 runs off 59 balls for the second wicket.
Dumbleton had not crossed the 400-run mark when the second wicket was out. Gage took charge of the last over. He himself took 19 strikes off 24 balls. He took the team to 400 runs. Out of 417 runs, 370 came on boundaries and over boundaries. This includes 22 fours and 47 sixes.
Hatherley & Reddings CC played attacking cricket from the start chasing the target. The required run rate from the start was more than 20 runs. But this mountain scoring was never possible. They were all out for 229 runs.
Opener Harry Bloomfields scored 109 off 48 balls. His innings had six fours and 12 sixes. Hatherley hit 19 sixes. Both teams have a total of 66 sixes. Gage took the last wicket of the match by scoring a double century. Dumbleton won by 188 runs. But the scoreboard of the match set a rare record in the history of T20 cricket.
