Twenty20 cricket kind of knocks the conventional idea of an 'average score', a 'competitve total', a 'tidy bowling spell', an 'expensive whip-lashing' our of the window. Based on figures notched up in Twenty20 cricket played around the world, here's a guide that helps get a better idea of what the averages, what are the benchmarks of a good or a bad performance and at what point in the game would it be a good idea to call all your bets off and keep your money in your pocket.

 

Average Batting Scores

- A 200+ score can be broadly be considered to be the equivalent of a, say, 325+ score in ODI cricket. This would indicate a score where you have pretty much put the match beyond the opposition's reach, save for extremely poor/lethargic bowling or for extraordinarily brilliant batting.

- The top T20 teams average round about 160 runs per innnings, which indicates a 8 per over run rate. If you have got 160 on board, you are in with a fighting chance. Anything around 120-130 is, well, not extraordinary even by ODI standards.

- For the record, Australia have both, the honour of  the highest international T20 total- 221 - and the indignity of the lowest- 79 all out.

Average Individual Batting Strike Rates

- This is the big one. Batsmen in Twenty20 cricket have managed to breach the 200 mark - Symonds in domestic cricket has a strike rate of 201, while a George Bailey has reached as high as 208. In International cricket, the numbers sober down a bit, but not too much.

- Symonds comes across as a real brute as far as T20 is concerned - notching up a phenomenal strike rate of 198 even in the international circuit. Top batsmen in this format of the game have their strike rates stretching from around 160-165 to 180, with a limited few breaching the 190's.

- Strike rates of around 110-120 and below form the bottom rung, and are likely to give the bowlers more reasons to be happy than the batsmen.

 

Top Individual batting scores

- Centuries are landmark events in T20 cricket given the 20 over span, and are therefore hard to come by. A 100+ knock represents a phenomenal performance

- On occasion, things can get a little stratospheric. Aussie Cameroon White once notched up an extraordinary 141* in a domestic T20 game.

-  Anything between 35 and 55-60 would qualify as being commendable, while anything above that could be a matchwinner.

 

Average Individual Economy rates and Bowling averages

- The top bowlers in international T20 cricket have managed to reign their economy rates in to under 6.5 to 7 runs per over, with New Zealand's Jeetan Patel conceding only 5.89 runs per over in the game he has played so far.

- Anything between 7 and 9 would be considered just about competent, and would need wickets to push it up into the 'good performance' bracket.

- Bowling averages, on the other hand, are a little scattered, with the upper rung broadly encompassing anything between 11 to 15.

- It's relevance, however, is diminished in this format of the game. Examples being of bowlers like Stuart Broad and James Franklin, who manage to top the rankings despite having averages of over 20.

- Broadly, a spell of 0 for 25 in 4 overs would be counted as being a job well done...possibly better than a spell of 4 for 53 in the alloted 4 overs.

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