20 August in cricket
20 August
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On This Day in 2017, Dwayne Smith produced a masterclass for the Barbados Royals against the Guyana Amazon Warriors in the CPL, blasting exactly 100 from 70 balls to headline a memorable contest. It remains a standout T20 century on this date, anchoring a Royals batting effort against their regional rivals.
The same fixture delivered another gem, as Chadwick Walton responded for the Amazon Warriors with a brisk 92 off just 57 deliveries. Guyana's Sohail Tanvir also chipped in with the ball, claiming 3 wickets for 40 runs.
The day belonged to Barbados all-rounder Kieron Pollard, though, whose brilliant spell of 4 for 16 against the Amazon Warriors capped a match packed with big performances. Years later in 2023, Andrew Balbirnie's 72 off 51 for Ireland against India added to the date's rich history.
Best innings on 20 August
- Dwayne Smith 100 (70) vs Guyana Amazon WarriorsCPL · 2017
- Chadwick Walton 92 (57) vs Barbados RoyalsCPL · 2017
- Andrew Balbirnie 72 (51) vs IndiaT20I · 2023
- Ruturaj Gaikwad 58 (43) vs IrelandT20I · 2023
- Glenn Phillips 58 (42) vs Trinbago Knight RidersCPL · 2020
Best bowling on 20 August
- Kieron Pollard 4/16 vs Guyana Amazon WarriorsCPL · 2017
- Obed McCoy 4/39 vs Trinbago Knight RidersCPL · 2025
- Noor Ahmad 3/27 vs B-Love KandyLPL · 2023
- Sohail Tanvir 3/40 vs Barbados RoyalsCPL · 2017
- Roston Chase 2/8 vs Barbados RoyalsCPL · 2020
Matches on 20 August
- St Kitts and Nevis Patriots vs Antigua and Barbuda Falcons — Antigua and Barbuda Falcons won by 3 wicketsCPL · 2026
- Antigua and Barbuda Falcons vs Trinbago Knight Riders — Antigua and Barbuda Falcons won by 8 runsCPL · 2025
- Dambulla Aura vs B-Love Kandy — B-Love Kandy won by 5 wicketsLPL · 2023
- India vs Ireland — India won by 33 runsT20I · 2023
- Barbados Royals vs St Lucia Zouks — St Lucia Zouks won by 7 wicketsCPL · 2020
- Jamaica Tallawahs vs Trinbago Knight Riders — Trinbago Knight Riders won by 7 wicketsCPL · 2020
- Barbados Royals vs Guyana Amazon Warriors — Guyana Amazon Warriors won by 4 wicketsCPL · 2017
Coverage & definitionsCricsheet ball-by-ball · matches played on this date (UTC) · data through 24 October 2026Show ▾
Source. Ball-by-ball data from Cricsheet. New matches are loaded from Cricsheet twice a day (10:00 and 22:00 UTC), typically a day or two after a match is published there.
Internationals. T20 internationals are included only when both teams are ICC full members. Fixtures against Associate nations (e.g. Netherlands, Scotland, Nepal, USA) are not in the dataset, so international totals for players who faced them are lower than their full career figures. Afghanistan men's internationals are absent for a different reason: Cricsheet has withheld every match involving the Afghanistan men's team since 14 November 2024, so none of them can be loaded. Every full member's totals are lower by the matches they played against Afghanistan, and Afghanistan men's players do not appear at all. Afghanistan women's matches are unaffected.
Leagues. Leagues: IPL, BBL, PSL, CPL, SA20, MLC, ILT20, BPL, LPL, WBBL, WPL — full history of each. Domestic T20 competitions outside this list (e.g. the Blast, SMAT, Super Smash) are not included.
Exclusions. Super overs are excluded from every total. A match abandoned without a ball bowled has no ball-by-ball file and is not in the dataset, even where a toss took place and official records credit the named players with an appearance. M can therefore sit one or two below a player's official career figure. Match appearances (M) come from the playing XI in each match file, so a match where a player neither batted nor bowled still counts as an appearance. Where M is missing, that player's appearances have not been loaded yet.
"Best" innings and spells are ranked by runs and by wickets then runs conceded; a quiet date here is only quiet within this dataset.