7 Best Twenty20 Internationals games ever
Some of the most exciting T20 gamesAlmost everyone in this world has a strange tendency to lean towards the best. This could be in a lot of ways. Some like or want to be the best, some want to make others the best and while some others like to debate on who or what is the best.For this article, I become the third type of person from the first kind that I am. In every field, we have a habit of compiling the list of the best in that aspect. Be it football or cricket or any sport in the world. In football, there are some never ending debates about Pele and Maradona or Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.While, in cricket, we are saved from such comparisons as in every generation there was only one player who stood out from the rest, like Sir Donald Bradman and Sachin Tendulkar. However, with the help of this list, we would like to number down the best matches ever played in the shortest international format of the game.
#1 South Africa v West Indies first ever World T20 match
This might not be one of your nail-biting-last-over-clinching encounters, but this game really set up the tone for the audience about what T20 encounters are all about as it was the first ever World T20 game.
People, especially bowlers, might go on to argue how cricket is not a batsman’s game, but the truth is, at least in the shortest version of the game, that it is indeed a game where people come to watch big hits than reverse-swinging yorkers that shoot the stump off the ground.
So as West Indies posted a target of a mammoth 206 with the help of a rocking 117 runs in 57 balls innings from the greatest player of this format Chris Gayle, we knew that we were up for more onslaught on bowlers and more entertainment for us. And, oh boy, we weren’t disappointed by the Proteas.
A Herschelle Gibbs inspired South Africa chased down the total with relative ease as they finished the game in only 17.2 overs and only lost 2 wickets in the process.