{"id":117992,"date":"2025-09-04T10:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117992\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:33:07","slug":"record-alert-zimbabwes-brian-bennett-creates-t20i-history-breaks-unique-milestone-held-by-faf-du-plessis-and-babar-azam-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117992\/","title":{"rendered":"Record alert! Zimbabwe\u2019s Brian Bennett creates T20I history; breaks unique milestone held by Faf du Plessis and Babar Azam | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/brian-bennett.jpg\" alt=\"Record alert! Zimbabwe\u2019s Brian Bennett creates T20I history; breaks unique milestone held by Faf du Plessis and Babar Azam\" title=\"Brian Bennett (Pic credit: Zimbabwe cricket)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Brian Bennett (Pic credit: Zimbabwe cricket) Zimbabwe opener Brian Bennett entered the record books on Wednesday with a rare batting feat in Harare, even as his team went down to Sri Lanka by four wickets in the opening T20 international of the three-match series.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@toisports\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">SUBSCRIBE NOW!<\/a>Bennett, who top-scored with a fluent 81 off 57 balls, became the player with the highest T20I score without hitting a six among full ICC members. His innings, laced with 12 boundaries, was the bedrock of Zimbabwe&#8217;s 175-7 at Harare Sports Club. But despite his knock, the hosts could not prevent Sri Lanka from chasing down the target with five balls to spare.The 27-year-old right-hander surpassed the previous record jointly held by Faf du Plessis (79* vs Bangladesh, 2015) and <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/babar-azam\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Babar Azam<\/a> (79 vs New Zealand). Other notable names in the unique list include Mohammad Rizwan (78 vs West Indies) and Ricky Ponting (76 vs India). However, the all-time record across all ICC members remains with Malawi&#8217;s Sami Sohail, who scored an unbeaten 94 against Lesotho in 2022 without clearing the ropes.Bennett&#8217;s innings was cut short just 10 runs shy of his personal best in T20Is when he attempted a scoop against Dushmantha Chameera, only to see his stumps uprooted by a perfectly executed yorker. Apart from skipper Sikandar Raza&#8217;s 28, no other Zimbabwe batter crossed 20, highlighting the lone fight from the opener.For Sri Lanka, Pathum Nissanka continued his dream run with 55 off 32 balls \u2014 his 15th T20I half-century \u2014 following his dominant performances in the preceding ODI series. A late blitz from Kamindu Mendis (41* off 16 balls) sealed victory for the visitors.Despite Zimbabwe&#8217;s loss, Bennett&#8217;s name now finds a unique place in the T20I record books, adding a statistical silver lining to an otherwise disappointing night for the hosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Bennett (Pic credit: Zimbabwe cricket) Zimbabwe opener Brian Bennett entered the record books on Wednesday with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,40807,83531,740,83533,83534,85,83532,83530],"class_list":["post-117992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-babar-azam","tag-brian-bennett-t20i-record","tag-cricket","tag-faf-du-plessis-record","tag-harare-sports-club-cricket","tag-sports","tag-sri-lanka-vs-zimbabwe-t20i","tag-t20i-highest-score-without-six"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}