6 things to look forward to in cricket in 2019

#4 200 in T20

Rohit has scored four centuries in T20Is

Since the inception of limited-overs format, scoring a century seems to be an excellent achievement as the batsman can only face a certain number of deliveries, unlike Test cricket. It took more than three decades to witness an individual score of 200 in an ODI game.

With plenty of rules favoring batsman, short boundary dimensions, heavy bats, and mainly flat tracks all over the world, batsmen are bullying the bowlers in the limited-overs formats. In the last four years alone, we have seen four 200+ knocks in ODIs. It looks like scoring 200 in an ODI game is not a big task anymore.

In 2018, England posted a mammoth 481 runs in an ODI game against Australia and shattered the record books. Australia chased down a target of 244 in a T20I match against New Zealand with seven balls to spare

In T20Is, Rohit smashed the bowlers for fun, as he became the first player to score four centuries in the format and registered two centuries in 2018 alone. On the other hand, Aaron Finch broke his own record of the highest individual score in the T20I by scoring 172 against Zimbabwe.

Hence, 2019 can be the year in which we can witness the first instance of a batsman scoring 200 in a T20 game.