Listing the cricketers with highest scores in T20Is by batting position

#7 Jacob Oram – 66* off 31 balls, for New Zealand against Australia at Perth, December 2007

During the recently concluded Zimbabwe-India T20I series, Elton Chigumbura scored a fifty from No.7, which was the seventh time that someone had achieved that feat from that position. That knock also made him only the sixth batsman to achieve that, still his unbeaten 54 against India is only good enough for sixth on this list.

Taking two of the top three spots along with the top spot is New Zealand's Jacob Oram. In the only T20I against Australia, New Zealand were set a target of 187 thanks to Andrew Symonds' unbeaten 85. In reply, the visitors got off to the worst possible start and when Jacob Oram came in for the last ball of the eighth over, Kiwis were struggling at 31/5.

With the top order and little in the way of support against an Australian pace attack consisting of Brett Lee, Shaun Tait and Mitchell Johnson, Oram decided to fly solo and produced a gem of an innings. Although it was ultimately in a losing cause, Oram's unbeaten 66 ensured there was a sense of respectability to the defeat. Oram's knock included five fours and six sixes and ended with the all-rounder finishing with a strike rate in excess of 210.