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In the third match of the T20 series between New Zealand and Pakistan, Finn Allen’s storm destroyed the Pakistani team bowlers. This 24 year old batsman played an important role in taking the team’s score to 224 runs by playing a stormy innings of 137 runs in just 62 balls. During his excellent innings, Allen hit a total of 16 sixes while only 5 fours were seen from his bat. With this, Allen has now become the player to score the highest individual score in an innings for New Zealand in T20 International. Apart from this, Allen has also equaled the number of sixes hit jointly in an innings.
Brendon McCullum’s record broken
In the third T20 match of this series, Pakistani team captain Shaheen Afridi decided to bowl first after winning the toss. Along with this, the team also got its first success in the form of Devon Conway on the score of 28, but from here Finn Allen along with Tim Seifert started scoring runs at a fast pace, it was a difficult task for the bowlers of the Pakistani team to stop them. Showed. With this inning of 137 runs, Allen also broke the record of former New Zealand team captain and veteran player Brendon McCullum, who till now held the record of making the highest individual score in T20 International for the Kiwi team. McCullum had scored an inning of 123 runs in just 72 balls in the match played against Bangladesh at Pallekele ground in 2012.
equaled the record of Hazratullah Zazai
Finn Allen took the ball across the stadium a total of 16 times in this innings. With this, he has now become the joint first batsman to hit the most number of sixes in an innings of T20 International. Hazratullah Zazai of Afghanistan team had earlier hit 16 sixes during his innings of 162 runs in 62 balls in the match played against Ireland in Dehradun in 2019. Let us tell you that during the IPL auction held in December 2023, no team made Allen its part.
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