Chris Gayle blasted the highest score in a Twenty20 international

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The records for international Twenty20 cricket

Highest team score: 260/6, Sri Lanka v Kenya, 14 September 2007

Highest win margin by runs: 172 runs, Sri Lanka v Kenya, 14 September 2007

Highest win margin by wickets: Ten wickets (58 balls remaining), Australia v Sri Lanka, 20 September 2007

Best bowling figures: 4-7, Mark Gillespie, New Zealand v Kenya, 12 September 2007

Highest individual score: 117, Chris Gayle, West Indies v South Africa, September 11 2007

Highest partnership: 145, Chris Gayle and Devon Smith for the first wicket, West Indies v South Africa, September 11 2007

Fastest half-century: 12 balls, Yuvraj Singh, India v England, September 19 2007

Fastest century: 50 balls, Chris Gayle, West Indies v South Africa, September 11 2007

Highest number of runs scored off an over: 36, Yuvraj Singh, India v England, September 19 2007

Highest number of sixes hit in a team innings: 14, Australia v England, January 9 2006

Highest number of sixes in an individual innings: 10, Chris Gayle, West Indies v South Africa, September 11 2007

First hat-trick: Brett Lee, Australia v Bangladesh, September 16 2007

Biggest six: 119 metres, Yuvraj Singh, India v Australia, September 22 2007.