Highest Twenty20 chases of all time

#1 Central Districts: 4/248 vs Otago Volts at New Plymouth, 2016

It does not occur very often that only four batsmen get dismissed throughout the chase and yet the side finds itself falling short of the target, Central Districts suffered a fate similar to India's by falling an agonizing solitary run short in a world record effort.

Set an even 250 to win after Hamish Rutherford scored a blistering first innings ton (massive kudos to Ben Wheeler for giving just 31 runs in his 4 overs in an innings total of 249), the Districts went about their chase in marvelous fashion, led from the front by veteran overseas recruit, Mahela Jayawardene, whose inspired knock of 116(56) kept them going right until the very end.

Tom Bruce played a commendable second in charge by scoring 61(29) and with him at the crease in the last over, a historic win looked all but formal as they needed just nine runs to send the Volts packing in a trauma of dejection.

But star Kiwi pacer Neil Wagner had other plans as he defended the modest eight runs he had to play within one of the best ever final over performances and the hosts were left with a bitter taste in their mouth, falling a run short of what would have been the highest ever successful chase.