This team was all out for 7 runs, world record for lowest score in T20 International, this happened in just 81 days

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|25-11-2024

India defeated Australia in Perth Test. Zimbabwe beat Pakistan in the ODI played in Bulawayo and what happened in the T20 International match? In this format, two world records were made in the same match. One is the lowest score and the other is the biggest win. This interesting match was played between Ivory Coast and Nigeria in Group C of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup Sub Regional Africa Qualifier. More than this match played in Lagos, there was more discussion about the team which was all out for 7 runs.

Nigeria scored 271 runs in 20 overs

In the match, Nigeria won the toss and decided to bat first and then scored 271 runs for 4 wickets in 20 overs. For Nigeria, its opener Salim Salau played an inning of 112 runs in 53 balls. Whereas in the middle order, Isak Opec scored 65 runs in 23 balls. The result was that this team set a big target of 272 runs in front of Ivory Coast.

Ivory Coast team all out for 7 runs

Now when the Ivory Coast team came out to bat, its first 2 wickets fell on the score of 4. Then two more batsmen were out on the score of 5. At the score of 6 runs, the wickets of three more batsmen fell while they were all out at the score of 7 runs. Ivory Coast scored 7 runs in 7.3 overs of bowling and lost all its wickets.

New world record for lowest score

Nigeria won the match by a huge margin of 264 runs, which is the third largest margin of victory by runs in Men's T20 International. But the bigger thing is that Ivory Coast made a new world record for the lowest total in Men's T20 International.

Amazing happened in 81 days

The earlier record of lowest score in Men's T20 International was 10 runs, which was made by the Mongolian team by getting all out on 24 September this year. But after just 81 days, Ivory Coast has set a new record.

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