Finn Allen’s 151: A New Chapter in T20 Power Hitting
Sometimes a sporting performance is so wild, it shifts what fans believe is possible. That’s what Finn Allen did in the MLC 2025 opener, teeing off for 151 runs from just 51 balls for the San Francisco Unicorns. The numbers almost feel made up: Allen blasted 19 sixes, shattering the old T20 record of 18 that Chris Gayle set in 2017 and Estonia’s Sahil Chauhan matched in 2024. Allen's fireworks weren’t just about brute force—you could see he was targeting the short boundaries, picking off bowlers with a mix of audacity and control.
The crowd in Texas saw something they may never forget. Allen scorched his way to a century in only 34 balls. Blink and you’d miss it—he then racked up 150 in just 49 deliveries, another stat that now sits atop global T20 leaderboards. The Unicorns, riding on Allen’s rage, stacked up 269 for five wickets in their 20 overs. That’s the biggest total in Major League Cricket so far. For context, the team’s six tally reached 28—nobody’s got close to this in MLC before, and it’s just one hit short of the global T20 team record. Tim Seifert at the other end was mostly a spectator as Allen kept launching the ball onto roofs and past cheering fans.
Washington Freedom looked shell-shocked even before their chase began. With that sort of total on the board, there was nowhere for them to hide. Their reply lasted just 16.2 overs before succumbing for 146. Unicorns quick Haris Rauf and spinner Hassan Khan both snapped up three wickets, but by then, the game was already done. Allen’s night out overshadowed nearly everything else, including Nicholas Pooran's previous MLC high score of 137 not out from last year, now quietly resigned to second best in the record books.
Records Broken, Legends Surpassed
It didn’t take long for Allen’s numbers to start circulating online. T20 cricket is all about quick runs, but even by its fast standards, reaching 100 in 34 balls and 150 in 49 is nearly science fiction. Allen’s onslaught erased the mark set by Gayle—who is still called the ‘Universe Boss’ in T20 circles—and even outpaced Chauhan’s more recent heroics from Estonia. Allen’s 19 sixes now stand alone as the most hit by any man in a single professional T20 innings anywhere in the world.
- Fastest T20 150: 49 balls (beating old records by a mile)
- Most sixes in T20 innings: 19 (one more than Gayle/Chauhan)
- Highest MLC individual score: 151 (passing Pooran’s 137*)
- Second-most team sixes in a T20 match: 28
That wasn’t all. The 28 sixes Allen and his mates collected for San Francisco nearly matched Afghanistan's 22 in an international T20 and fell just short of the most ever in a T20—something only West Indies have managed to sneak past. After such a statement, Allen will be the headline act for weeks. Teams will strategize around him; bowlers will want revenge. But for now, one thing is clear—T20 cricket’s limits got pushed further out. And Finn Allen did the pushing.