Highest Twenty20 chases of all time

#2 Australia: 5/245 vs New Zealand at Auckland, 2018

Ever since the heroics of the 2017/18 Ashes, Australia had looked below par in the limited overs matches against England. So for the Trans-Tasman tri-series, the selectors picked a squad purely comprising BBL guns led by T20 enigma David Warner, and none of the burnt out members of the Test series.

On the postage stamp sized Eden Park, Martin Guptill and Colin Munro gave the Aussies little to smile about in the first half of the match. Their opening stand of 132 runs coming in just 64 balls demoralizing Australian fast bowlers and spinners in equal magnitudes. Guptill went on to record his second T20I hundred as the hosts put 6/243 on the board.

In a flawless batting performance, where the slowest effort was Chris Lynn's 18 off 13 balls, Australia never looked like lagging behind in the chase. Warner's quickfire 59(24) set things up, while BBL hero D'Arcy Short (76 off 44) batted throughout the majority of the innings to anchor the chase with help from the Victorian duo of Glenn Maxwell and Aaron Finch to take Australia home with a mind-boggling seven balls to spare.

Kiwi fast bowler Ben Wheeler epitomized how the day went for New Zealand, giving away 64 runs off 19 balls before being taken off mercifully for bowling two waist-high full tosses.