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Standard Sport|Agencies
29 August 2013
Australia batsman Aaron Finch struck the highest-ever Twenty20 international score with an astonishing knock of 156 off just 63 balls against England at the Rose Bowl.
The burly Australian struck 11 fours and 14 sixes to better the previous best of 123 scored by New Zealander Brendon McCullum and lead his side to 248 for six in the first of two matches against England.
Finch was also on course to break the record for the fastest T20 international century before eventually reaching his hundred from 47 balls, two outside the mark set by South African Richard Levi.
"Luckily today was my day, any one of them could have gone straight up in the air," he told Sky Sports.