This team was all out on 7 runs, a world record for the lowest score in T20 International, this happened in just 81 days.
India defeated Australia in the Perth Test. Zimbabwe defeated 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 for the lowest score and the other for 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, the team that was all out for 7 runs was discussed.
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 scored 112 runs in 53 balls. In the middle order, Isaac Opeke 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, the first two wickets fell at a score of 4. Then two more batsmen got out at a score of 5. Three more wickets fell at a score of 6 while they were all out at 7 runs. Ivory Coast scored 7 runs in 7.3 overs of bowling and lost all its wickets.
The new world record for lowest score
Nigeria won the match by a huge margin of 264 runs which is the third-highest margin of victory by runs in a men's T20 International. But what was even bigger than this was that Ivory Coast created a new world record for the lowest total in a men's T20 International.
Amazing happened in 81 days
Earlier, the record for the lowest score in Men's T20 International was 10 runs, which was made by Mongolia's team on 24 September this year by getting all out. But just 81 days after that, Ivory Coast has now set a new record.