Melbourne Stars opener Luke Wright has blasted the highest-ever score in domestic Twenty20 cricket to lead his side to a record Big Bash League 3-203 against the Hobart Hurricanes at Bellerive.
Wright made 117 off just 60 balls, smashing nine sixes and eight fours to eclipse the previous best of 111 set by Michael Dighton in 2007.
The Englishman dispatched Hurricanes bowler Rhett Lockyear for three successive sixes in the 12th over before reaching his century off just 44 balls with another six off Xavier Doherty.
With fellow opener Rob Quiney (62 off 50), Wright shared a highest-ever domestic T20 partnership of 172.
Not helped by five dropped catches, some of them sitters, and a not-out call to a big lbw shout against Quiney early in his knock, Hobart conceded the highest score of the Big Bash League and the fourth-highest in Australian domestic T20.
Shane Warne's visit to Hobart had attracted a first-ever sellout crowd for a domestic match at Bellerive hoping to see the ladder-leading Hurricanes lock up a home semi-final.
The Stars, though, left them stunned after captain Cameron White won the toss and his side can sneak into third spot if they notch a third victory of their campaign.
