Highest successful run chases in all the three formats of the game

T20I:

5-245 by Australia vs New Zealand, Eden Park, Auckland 2018

In a week where we are celebrating the thirteenth anniversary of T20I, the two sides that kick-started that revolution was involved in another historic encounter at Eden Park as the Aussies set the new benchmark for the highest T20I chase, a feat previously achieved by the World Champions Windies when they chased down 236 against the Proteas back in 2016. With 222 sixes struck on the ground T20I previously, the Eden Park lived up to its reputation as the batsmen from both sides made a mockery of the art of six-hitting. Guptill and Munro set the ball rolling with a belligerent opening stand worth 132 in just 10.4 overs. Guptill en route to his second hundred in the shortest format of the game also became the highest run-getter (2250 runs in 74 matches), a record previously held by his fellow Kiwi Brendon McCullum.

The opening blitz that powered New Zealand to 6-243 was taken to magnanimous proportions by a rampaging duo of Short and Warner who amassed 121 runs, powered by eight sixes among them in just 8.3 overs.All the bowlers were reduced to a bowling machine virtually ushering them out of the occasion. Ben Wheeler (1-64 in 3.5 overs) ran the risk of conceding the highest runs for a bowler in T20I history, only to be saved by the waste height no balls that propelled him out of the attack.The opening blitz was ably supported by the middle order as cameos from Glenn Maxwell (31 off 14 balls) and Finch (36 off 14 balls) steered the Aussies to a record-breaking chase of 245.

Result: New Zealand (6-243, Martin Guptill 105) lost to Australia (5-245, D'Arcy Short 76) by five wickets.