Australia opener Aaron Finch has shattered the record books with a glorious T20I hundred against Zimbabwe in Harare on Tuesday (July 3).
Finch, who was recently named Australia’s T20I skipper, hammered 172 off 76 balls – the highest individual T20I score ever – to help his team post a mammoth total of 229/2 in 20 overs. At the 125-run mark, Finch broke Shane Watson’s record of the highest individual score by a captain in a T20I match. However, he was far from finished.
The Victorian went on to break his own record of the highest individual score in T20 internationals, surpassing the 156 he had scored against England in 2013.
Finch fell just three runs short of Chris Gayle’s record for the highest individual T20 score as he bizarrely got hit wicket of the bowling off Muzarabani. Gayle had scored an unbeaten 175 for Royal Challengers Bangalore against Pune Warriors India in IPL 2013.
Twitterverse was left awestruck with the batting exhibition of Finch. His innings was laced with 16 fours and 10 sixes as the Twitter experts run out of adjectives to describe the blitz.
Here are some of the tweets:
172 off 76 deliveries. @AaronFinch5, what did you eat last night? #ZIMvAUS
— R P Singh (@rpsingh) July 3, 2018
Oh @AaronFinch5 172 off 76... one of the greatest knocks of all time! And selectors wanted you to bat down the order! Always a true opener..
— Dean Jones (@ProfDeano) July 3, 2018
simply ????????????????????????????????#AUSvsZIM
Finchy doing Finchy things!!! BOOM ☄️ #ByeByeBall
— Chris Lynn (@lynny50) July 3, 2018
Outstanding batting! Well batted Finchy. https://t.co/jXElqFMrKf
— Jason Gillespie ???????? (@dizzy259) July 3, 2018
Is this a 50 over match? ???? wow @AaronFinch5 you are on fire ???? ???????? #ZIMvAUS pic.twitter.com/rWXLEtNvu4
— Lisa Sthalekar (@sthalekar93) July 3, 2018
Aaron Finch, what exceptional hitting. 172 in a T20 innings , beating his own world record. Simply Wow #ZIMvAUS
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) July 3, 2018
Incredible @AaronFinch5 #ZIMvAUS ???????? ???????? ????????
— Pat Cummins (@patcummins30) July 3, 2018
Must be great to break your own world record ????
— Damien Fleming (@bowlologist) July 3, 2018
Well done @AaronFinch5 ????
Currently 166 of 73 balls one over to go????#ZIMvAUS pic.twitter.com/sn79vxQdk9
Oh you Beast @AaronFinch5 ????
— Siddharth Kaul (@sidkaul22) July 3, 2018
