Top 10 highest team totals in T20s

1) Royal Challengers Bangalore (263-5 against Pune Warriors) and Australia (263-3 against Sri Lanka)

Glenn Maxwell is known as the big show and the Victorian showed everyone exactly why. He walked out to open against Sri Lanka in the first T20 in Kandy and smoked the Sri Lankan bowlers all over the park. In the process, he scored a breath-taking 145 runs in 65 balls.

Australia smashed the International record for the highest innings total set by Sri Lanka (260), when Travis Head clobbered a six in the final over of the innings. They eventually finished with 263/3 in 20 overs.

In the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League, the Royal Challengers Bangalore enjoyed a thumping victory against the Pune Warriors, credits to the West Indian Chris Gayle who whipped up a ‘Gayle storm’ that destroyed the Warriors.

Put in to bat first, the Challengers reached the first 50 runs in blazing quick time and never looked back as Gayle smashed the Warriors’ bowlers to all parts of the ground. The 36-year-old also recorded the fastest century in 30 deliveries and remained unbeaten at 175 (66 deliveries).

South African batsman AB de Villiers also played an aggressive cameo of 31 runs in 8 deliveries at a strike-rate of 387. The Challengers ended at a total of 263 with the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs, giving the Warriors with little to no hope of chasing the huge total.

While the Challengers bowlers bowling extremely well to restrict the Warriors to 133, it was Chris Gayle again, this time in the bowling department, picking up 2 wickets in an over and helping RCB register a victory of 130 runs.