Man, figuring out cricket stats can be such a head-scratcher sometimes. Today I was totally bored and thought, hey, let’s see which teams completely face-planted in T20 internationals. You know, those games where the score looks more like an inning score in baseball sometimes? Yeah. Where’d they even get these teams?
Starting Simple (Or So I Thought)
First thing, obviously, I hit up the place everyone goes: cricket stats websites. Let me tell you, it wasn’t smooth sailing. Some pages loaded slower than molasses in January. I’m sitting there tapping my fingers, waiting for just the basic info. Why’s it gotta be like this? And then, when things did load up? Finding the specific filter for low T20I team totals felt like trying to find a needle in a haystack buried inside another haystack. Seriously, do they hide this stuff on purpose?
I think I clicked through about six different menus and sub-menus before I even saw anything remotely useful. It was getting frustrating fast. “All-round records,” “Batting stats,” “Team records,” “T20I specific”… felt like going down rabbit holes.
Search Engine Brainwave
Getting nowhere fast, I gave up on those fancy stat sites for a sec. Went old school: straight to a search bar. Typed in stuff like “teams lowest scores t20i” and “worst batting performances t20 international“. You wouldn’t believe the random forum threads and news articles that popped up. Some were years old, talking about scores that weren’t even the lowest anymore!
It was messy, but slowly, patterns started showing up. Certain teams kept getting mentioned alongside embarrassingly low numbers. I was cross-checking names on those confusing stat sites again, trying to see which ones actually held the record officially. Found a page supposedly listing lowest team totals in order. Looked promising, finally! Started scribbling notes on a scrap piece of paper.
The Actually Useful Stats Page (Finally!)
After way too much back-and-forth, I managed to land on a stats table that seemed legit – it actually focused on low T20I scores and had the team names attached. It listed the worst ones right at the top, just how I needed it. Phew! Here’s the sad state of affairs for the absolute basement dwellers:
- Turkey vs Czech Republic, 2019: Hit rock bottom at 21 runs. Wow. Just… wow.
- China got bundled out by Uganda for 26 runs in 2023.
- Lesotho could only manage 26 runs against Rwanda back in 2021.
- Turkey pops up again, embarrassingly scraping together 28 against Luxembourg in 2020.
- The Czech Republic wasn’t much better either, getting thumped for 28 by Luxembourg too, also in 2020.
Digging A Tiny Bit Deeper (Got Distracted)
Curiosity got the better of me for a minute. Kept scrolling down that list. Saw familiar bigger names like Ireland sitting right above 30 against those bowling machines, the West Indies. Makes their later World Cup wins kinda funny, huh? Shows anyone can have an absolute nightmare day. But man, seeing those scores barely above 20? That’s on another level of struggle. Makes you wonder about the gap between the top dogs and the teams just starting out. Massive.
Whole thing took longer than it should have, thanks to those painfully slow pages and confusing menus. But hey, got there in the end. Learned something utterly useless today. Now you know which teams might not want to look at their T20 batting highlights reel!
