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New Zealand Raise Six-Hitting Stakes

New Zealand's win against Zimbabwe by 10 wickets in
Harare
provided the seventh occasion of a team winning a T20 International by
that margin. It was New Zealand's second.

 

The list:

 

No

Team

Result

Margin

BR

Pop

Ground

Date

1

RSA

won

10
wkts

51

Pak

Jo'burg

02.02.07

2

Aus

won

10
wkts

58

Srl

Cape
Town

20.09.07

3

Ken

won

10
wkts

45

Sco

Nairobi-G

01.02.10

4

NZl

won

10
wkts

70

Ban

Hamilton

03.02.10

5

Ken

won

10
wkts

33

Sco

Nairobi-G

04.02.10

6

Eng

won

10
wkts

28

Win

The
Oval

23.09.11

7

NZl

won

10
wkts

39

Zim

Harare

15.10.11

 

Brendon McCullum's 81 not out in this game is his
eighth T2oI fifty which is a new record. He went past Mahela Jayawardene's
seven. The list of fifties:

 

BB McCullum

No

Runs

Opposition

Ground

Start Date

1

59

v West Indies

Hamilton

28 Dec 2008

2

61

v Australia

Sydney

15 Feb 2009

3

56*

v India

Christchurch

25 Feb 2009

4

69*

v India

Wellington

27 Feb 2009

5

57

v South Africa

Lord's

09 Jun 2009

6

56*

v Bangladesh

Hamilton

03 Feb 2010

7

116*

v Australia

Christchurch

28 Feb 2010

8

81*

v Zimbabwe

Harare

15 Oct 2011

DPMD Jayawardene

No

Runs

Opposition

Ground

Start Date

1

65

v Kenya

Johannesburg

14 Sep 2007

2

78

v Ireland

Lord's

14 Jun 2009

3

81

v New Zealand

Providence

30 Apr 2010

4

100

v Zimbabwe

Providence

03 May 2010

5

98*

v West Indies

Bridgetown

07 May 2010

6

72*

v England

Bristol

25 Jun 2011

7

86

v Australia

Pallekele

08 Aug 2011

 

Other batsmen with six fifties are Gautam Gambhir,
Kumar Sangakkara and Shane Watson.

 

McCullum hit six sixes in this game to take his
aggregate of sixes to 138 in all his T20 games. He is now fifth among the batsmen with the most sixes
in their T20 career. The five batsmen list is furnished below:

 

No

Player

Mat

Inns

4s

6s

1

DJ
Hussey

158

153

265

168

2

LRPL
Taylor

115

107

205

164

3

CH
Gayle

74

73

220

155

4

KA
Pollard

121

106

142

146

5

BB
McCullum

113

112

314

138

 

 

New Zealand hit eight sixes in the game. New
Zealand's batsmen have hit 215 sixes in their T20I history. They now New
Zealand occupy the second place among all international teams for the number of
sixes hit.

 

 

No

Team

Mat

6s

1

Australia

44

251

2

New Zealand

44

215

3

Pakistan

48

214

4

South Africa

39

191

5

India

30

166

6

England

40

146

7

West Indies

33

136

8

Sri Lanka

37

130

 

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