Aaron Finch Tumble T20I Records with Blazing 156

Aaron Finch, the 26-year-old Victorian batsman, ransacked England's bowling with an eye-popping world record 156. Finch brutal display of batting; hitting sixes all corners of ground, had just appeared six previous T20 caps, well past Brendon McCullum's 123 as the highest score in an international Twenty20. Australia's eventual 248 for 6 was the second-highest total in a T20 international - and the highest in a match involving two Test nations - only Sri Lanka's 260 against Kenya was out of reach and for a while it appeared they may cross that landmark too. Finch's 14 sixes is another records of most sixes by any batsman in T20I that he broke during the onslaught. He began with a six first ball, picked up effortlessly off Steven Finn, and it was a theme that would continue throughout. Each of Finch's landmarks came up with a six; his half-century, from 26 balls; his hundred, off 47, beating McCullum's record, and his 150. He’s in 2^nd spot at fastest T20I hundred, just behind South African Richard Levi 45-balls hundred against New Zealand in Hamilton. He was the first Australian to make a Twenty20 international hundred and it took him just 13 more deliveries to power past 150. By then, it had long since stopped being an even contest.

High Scores in T20I
Player	Runs	Balls	4s	6s	SR	Teams	Ground	Match Date
AJ Finch	156	63	11	14	247.61	Aus v Eng	Southampton	29-Aug-13
BB McCullum	123	58	11	7	212.06	NZ v BD	Pallekele	21-Sep-12
RE Levi	117*	51	5	13	229.41	SA v NZ	Hamilton	19-Feb-12
CH Gayle	117	57	7	10	205.26	WI v SA	Johannesburg	11-Sep-07
BB McCullum	116*	56	12	8	207.14	NZ v Aus	Christchurch	28-Feb-10
TM Dilshan	104*	57	12	5	182.45	SL v Aus	Pallekele	6-Aug-11
MJ Guptill	101*	69	9	6	146.37	NZ v SA	East London	23-Dec-12
SK Raina	101	60	9	5	168.33	Ind v SA	Gros Islet	2-May-10
DPMD Jayawardene	100	64	10	4	156.25	SL v Zim	Providence	3-May-10
RD Berrington	100	58	10	5	172.41	Sco v BD	The Hague	24-Jul-12

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