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Otago trump Central Districts in record 497-run T20
- Updated: December 21, 2016
In a record-breaking 497-run T20 match in New Plymouth, Neil Wagner defended eight off the final over to help Otago clinch a one-run thriller against Central Districts. It became the highest aggregate of runs in a T20, beating 489 scored by India and West Indies in Lauderhill in August this year. Otago raced to 249 on the back of a 46-ball hundred by Hamish Rutherford, before Mahela Jayawardene’s 48-ball century kept Central Districts in the hunt. With two required off the final ball, Dane Cleaver was run-out.
Jayawardene batted till the 19th over during his third T20 century – 116 off 56 balls. Central Districts needed 21 off 11 balls when he was dismissed. Tom Bruce kept firing at the other end with a 22-ball fifty. A no-ball and a wide in the penultimate over helped Central Districts, before a six from Bruce brought the equation to 10 off seven. However, they couldn’t score a boundary thereafter. Wagner …
