Highest Score in T20 International Cricket

Highest T20 Score in International Cricket: Finch and the Chasers

Finch’s 172 included 16 fours and 10 sixes. He also has the fifth highest score in the list, 156 from 63 balls versus England on 29 Aug 2013, so he holds two of the top five.

The next three spots all belong to Associate batters, and all three came in a short burst between Dec 2025 and Jun 2026:

• Karanbir Singh of Austria made 164 off 57 balls against Hungary on 28 Jun 2026.
• Hamza Khan of Rwanda made 164* off 65 balls against Ivory Coast on 24 May 2026.
• Mohammad Ihsan of Spain made 160 with 17 sixes against Croatia on 7 Dec 2025.

Since the 2018 innings, nobody has passed 172, though Karanbir got close. The table counts every T20I team, so these scores against fellow Associate sides sit next to Finch’s.

Big Scores by Test-Playing Nations

Strip out the Associate matches and the top of the list reads Finch 172, Finch 156, then Glenn Maxwell of Australia with 145* against Sri Lanka on 6 Sep 2016. Phil Salt of England hit 141* from 60 deliveries versus South Africa on 12 Sep 2025. Finn Allen of New Zealand made 137 with 16 sixes against Pakistan.

Sikandar Raza of Zimbabwe made 133* off just 43 balls against Gambia on 23 Oct 2024. No other Test-nation score in the table took fewer balls. Jos Buttler of England added 131 against India on 11 Jul 2026.

A clear pattern runs through the list: only four of the 25 scores came before 2023. The rest have all been made since Jul 2023. Sahil Chauhan of Estonia hit 18 sixes in his 144* off 41 balls against Cyprus, the most sixes in any innings in the table.

Indian Player Highest Score in T20 and Team Totals

Abhishek Sharma’s 135 off 54 balls, with 13 sixes, is the top T20 score by an Indian batsman in the data. Shubman Gill’s 126* against New Zealand is next, then RD Gaikwad’s 123* against Australia and Tilak Varma’s 120* against South Africa. Rohit Sharma’s 118 came from 43 balls versus Sri Lanka in Dec 2017. Suryakumar Yadav appears three times in India’s top 10.

The team totals table is led by Zimbabwe’s 344/4 against Gambia in Nairobi, the same match as Raza’s 133*. England’s 304/2 at Old Trafford came in Salt’s 141* match. India’s best is 297/6 against Bangladesh in Hyderabad on 12 Oct 2024, when SV Samson made 111. More on Finch’s ground is on the Harare Sports Club page, and Abhishek’s is on the Wankhede Stadium page.

Women's Highest T20I Scores and Reading the Lists

The women’s record is 161*, made by HMD Rasangika of Bahrain versus Saudi Arabia in Mar 2022, built on 31 fours and no sixes. ER Oza of UAE made 158* four days later. Among Test-playing nations, Alyssa Healy of Australia has the best with 148* from 61 balls versus Sri Lanka, 2 Oct 2019, followed by Meg Lanning’s 133* against England.

A * means not out. Scores are ranked by runs, and you can sort by balls, fours or sixes with a click. For other formats see the highest ODI scores and highest Test scores. The T20I career run list and the T20I records hub cover the longer view.