10 images that defined cricket in 2018

#10 A year of high scores in limited-overs' games

England registered the highest team total in ODIs against Australia in 2018

245, 243, 243, 229, 221, 221 - reads some of the innings totals in T20Is conducted in 2018.

Meanwhile, Aaron Finch also broke his own record for highest individual T20I score, rewriting the new value at 172 runs he made against Zimbabwe in late July. He fell agonizingly short of Chris Gayle's 175 in the IPL, which is still the highest ever individual score in any official Twenty-over innings.

Over to the ODIs, and most of us are reminded of the new world record ODI total - 481/6 - made by England against Australia at Nottingham in June. Jonny Bairstow and Alex Hales faced 92 balls apiece, to make 139 and 147 respectively, and laid the foundations to what was one of the most attacking scorelines ever.

Just around two weeks earlier, the Kiwi women had made short work of their Irish counterparts, scoring 491/4 in their allotted 50 overs, Suzie Bates (151), Maddy Green (122) and Amelia Kerr (81*) playing the chief roles.

Kerr had made her maiden double hundred (232*) in the format just a couple of innings earlier. Among men, Fakhar Zaman became the first Pakistani cricketer to reach the mark (210*).

In conclusion, 2018 was also a year of high scores, both in cases of teams, as well as for individuals.