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| Most runs conceded in a T20 World Cup match – 64 by Sanath Jayasuriya |
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| Most runs conceded in a T20 International match – 75 by Kasun Rajitha |
Sa’adi Thawfeeq reporting from Australia SYDNEY: Sri Lanka holds a number of world records in international cricket whether it is Tests, ODIs or T20Is.
Currently the focus is on the T20 World Cup where Marcus Stoinis scored the fastest fifty in a T20 World Cup by an Australian taking just 17 balls in the match against Sri Lanka at Perth. In the same match Sri Lanka’s prime spinner Wanindu Hasaranga suffered the embarrassment of conceding more than 50 runs (53) in the match bowling only three of the allotted four overs. But Hasaranga can take heart from the fact that his figures are by far not the worst conceded by a bowler in a T20 World Cup match. That unusual record belongs to another Sri Lankan cricketer Sanath Jayasuriya who conceded 64 runs off four overs against Pakistan at Johannesburg in 2007, bowling left-arm spin.
In fact, Hasaranga’s figures ranks 19th in the all-time T20 World Cup list much lower than even another Sri Lankan bowler Lasith Malinga who conceded 54 runs off four overs against West Indies in the T20 World Cup final at the R. Premadasa Stadium in 2012, which Sri Lanka lost by 36 runs. Two other bowlers from Sri Lanka have conceded more than 50 runs in a T20 World Cup match namely Ajantha Mendis – 52 runs off four overs against England at Chattogram in 2014, and Gayan Wijekoon – 50 runs off four overs against New Zealand at Johannesburg in 2007.
The most number of runs conceded by a bowler in three overs in a T20 World Cup game is 56 by Afghanistan’s Izatullah Dawlatzai against England at the R. Premadasa Stadium in 2012. In T20 Internationals also it’s a Sri Lankan who has been the most expensive bowler in an innings. That uncommon record is held by fast bowler Kasun Rajitha who has been named as a replacement for one of the injured fast bowlers in the ongoing T20 World Cup in Australia.
In the match against Australia at Adelaide in 2019, Rajitha was hit for 75 runs off four overs, which remains the world record number of runs yielded in a T20I. He conceded six sixes and seven fours in the match that saw David Warner score 100* off 56 balls, Aaron Finch 64 off 36, and Glenn Maxwell 62 off 28.
