James Vince creates new history in T20 Blast

While the Vitality Blast or T20 Blast 2022 is currently running in England, English cricketer James Vince recorded the second-highest individual score as a captain in the English T20 Blast history.

Hampshire met Somerset last Thursday (23rd June) in the South Group contest of the Vitality Blast 2022 at Taunton. While Hampshire scored 208/5 (20 overs) in the first innings after losing the toss, Somerset replied with 194/9 in 20 overs.

In the first batting, though the opener and wicketkeeper-batter Ben McDermott was dismissed without opening the scoreboard, skipper James Vince soon provided a strong start for his team through a solid partnership with Tom Prest.

James Vince scored 129 not out

During that 144-run partnership for the second wicket, while Vince completed his half-century in 36 balls, Prest achieved the same feat in 38 balls with a boundary. Though Prest lost his wicket after scoring 62 runs off 46 balls, Vince continued his attack on the opponent bowlers.

Skipper Vince completed his fourth T20 century in 51 balls. The right-handed opening batter ended that innings with a sixer on the final ball of that innings. He scored 129 not out off 62 balls with the help of nine fours and 10 sixes. It is his new highest score in his T20 career.

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Key stats about James Vince’s century

• It was his 36th 50+ score in T20 Blast history (four centuries and 32 half-centuries). Surpassing Luke Wright’s 35 times 50+ scores in English T20 Blast history, Vince moved on top of the list of most fifties in T20 Blast history.

• Sixth player to hit at least four centuries in the English T20 Blast history. 

Key stats about James Vince’s 129 not out

• It was the highest individual score as a Hampshire batter in T20 cricket history. Their previous record was 124 not out by Michael Lumb against Essex at Southampton on 4th June 2009.

• Highest individual score by an English cricketer as a captain in T20 cricket history. Moeen Ali was the previous record holder in this list when the Worcestershire captain scored 121 not out against Sussex at Hove on 6th September 2019.

• Second highest individual score as a captain in the English T20 Blast history. The record is 141 not out by the Somerset skipper Cameron White against Worcestershire at Worcester on 9th July 2006.

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Highest individual scores by the captains in T20 Blast history

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