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Phil Salt hits record 141 off 60 balls vs South Africa, leading England to their highest T20I total at home.
Star England opener Phil Salt, on Friday, became the highest individual T20I run-scorer for his country in an innings, breaking his own record of 119 against the West Indies in Tarouba in 2023, scoring an incredible 60-ball 141 against South Africa at Old Trafford.
Salt’s 119, the standing England record in T20Is till Friday, was the cornerstone of their then-highest total of 267/3 against the Windies.
On Friday, Salt went on a rampage as he thrashed all the South African bowlers around the park and made them look hapless.
Highest individual scores for England in T20Is
120* Phil Salt vs South Africa, Manchester 2025
119 Phil Salt vs West Indies, Tarouba 2023
116* Alex Hales vs Sri Lanka, Chattogram 2014
109* Phil Salt vs West Indies, St George’s 2023
Salt also went past New Zealand’s Finn Allen in the list of the highest individual scores in T20Is. The latter had scored 137 against Pakistan in January last year. But the record still lies with Australia’s Aaron Finch, who had smacked 172 against Zimbabwe in 2018.
Salt, out for a golden duck in Cardiff, turned the tables in style with a brilliant 60-ball knock featuring 15 boundaries and eight sixes on his Lancashire home ground.
Riding on Salt’s 141, England posted 304/2, which is now the third-highest total in T20Is. They went past India’s 297/6 against Bangladesh in Hyderabad last year. The record lies with Zimbabwe, who scored a whopping 344/4 against Gambia last year.
Highest totals in T20Is
344/4 Zim vs Gambia, Nairobi 2024
314/3 Nepal vs Mongolia, Hangzhou 2023
304/2 Eng vs South Africa, Manchester 2025
297/6 Ind vs Bangladesh, Hyderabad 2024
286/5 Zim vs Seychelles, Nairobi 2024
England’s tally ranks as the fourth-highest in men’s T20s overall and the highest ever on English soil, going past Somerset’s 265/5 against Derbyshire in 2022.
Salt’s fourth T20 century, no other England batter has more than one, came off 39 balls. It was also the quickest hundred in any format by an England batter, going past Liam Livingstone’s 42-ball effort in a T20I against Pakistan at Trent Bridge in 2021.
September 13, 2025, 07:49 IST
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