#2 Luke Wright vs Afghanistan, 2012
England 196/5 (Wright 99*) beat Afghanistan 80 (Naib 44, Patel 2/6) by 116 runs
England were defending champions at the World T20 in 2012, having won the tournament 2 years before in the West Indies. And they started their campaign with a bang- thrashing Afghanistan by a massive 116-run margin. Luke Wright, who had come in to bat with England 0/1 after 1 over, was without a doubt the star of the show, finishing unbeaten on 99. Needing 3 to complete his century off the last ball of the innings, Wright could only get the ball as far as long on and scampered back for two to become the first, and to date only, batsman to finish 99* in a T20I.
The English bowlers then came back to share the spoils as they routed Afghanistan for a measly 80. Little did they know that their own team would be bowled out for exactly the same score two days later, against India.
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