Champions League T20 - Top 5 impactful innings down the years

2) Ryan ten Doeschate (Otago vs Perth Scorchers, Jaipur 2013) – 66 (26b, 3 x 4s, 6 x 6s)

FILE PHOTO: Ryan ten Doeschate – the best modern era player to not play Test cricket

ten Doeschate has often been regarded as the best player not to have played Test cricket in the modern era and he has somehow preferred that to a Test cap with South Africa or England.

Earlier in the same tournament, he had extricated his team from a spot of bother in the qualifying stages. This time though, his captain de Boorder and Neil Broom had done the job beforehand and when ten Doeschate came in, he was given a stamped and signed license to kill.

He went into slam-bang mode from the first ball and ended up with 66 off 26 balls with 6 sixes. Dropped catches were not even a blip on the radar as Otago raced from 76 in the 10th over to 204 in the 18th over, en route to a massive first innings total of 242.

In the meanwhile, Broom helped himself to a hearty 117 off 56 balls.