Ivory Coast Sets New Record: Lowest Men's T20 International Score

In the T20 International match between Ivory Coast and Nigeria in Group C of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup Sub Regional Africa Qualifier, two world records were created. Ivory Coast made history by scoring the lowest ever T20 International total, being all out for just 7 runs. This astonishing feat caught the attention of cricket enthusiasts around the globe. On the other hand, Nigeria claimed the biggest ever T20 International victory, defeating Ivory Coast with an impressive margin. This match, which took place in Lagos, sparked a lot of discussions and debates regarding the team that managed to score only 7 runs.

Nigeria scored 271 runs in 20 overs:
In the match, Nigeria won the toss and decided to bat first and then scored 271 runs for 4 wickets in 20 overs. For Nigeria, its opener Salim Salau scored 112 runs in 53 balls. In the middle order, Isaac Opeke scored 65 runs in 23 balls. The result was that this team set a big target of 272 runs in front of Ivory Coast.

Ivory Coast team all out on 7 runs:
Now when the Ivory Coast team came to bat, the first 2 wickets fell on the score of 4. Then two more batsmen got out on the score of 5. Three more batsmen’s wickets fell on the score of 6 runs while they got all out on 7 runs. Ivory Coast scored 7 runs in 7.3 overs of bowling and lost all their wickets.

7 All Out!

In an ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Africa sub regional qualifier, Nigeria bundled out Ivory Coast for the lowest Men’s T20I total ever! pic.twitter.com/vblBXqG9W1

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The new world record for the lowest score:
Nigeria won the match by a huge margin of 264 runs which is the third-highest margin of victory by runs in Men’s T20 International. But the bigger thing was that Ivory Coast made a new world record for the lowest total in Men’s T20 International.

An amazing thing happened in 81 days:
Earlier the record for the lowest score in Men’s T20 International was 10 runs, which was made by Mongolia’s team by getting all out on 24 September this year. But just 81 days after that, Ivory Coast has now set a new record.