Will a T20 team ever win a match without taking a wicket?

[cnerd123]

TBF to KV, he's defined a time frame of 20 years. There are likely to be thousands of professional T20 games played at various levels by then. It's not that unlikely that a side chasing loses with all 10 wickets in hand given such a large sample size. It will be a freak one-off incident though. Can't see this ever happening with any regularity under the current set of rules.

 

[Prince EWS]

Batsmen aren't robots who strike at a predetermined rate regardless of the situation, so this:

But consider this. Let's say there was a situation in which a chasing team didn't open with a striker like Guptill but with two reasonably sedate batsmen who struck at 110 or so.

The optimal strategy for the team defending a total in this situation might literally be to try and take no wickets but to bowl 20 overs to the openers without letting the hitters get in.

This might mean the fielding team deliberately drops catches so as to keep the relatively slow scoring openers in the game.

Is just completely mental masturbation.

Your overall question is more interesting. It could certainly happen if there was some sort of rain delay given each team only needs to bat five overs for a match to be constituted, but that aside if this happens it'll be because both teams make absolutely massive scores and the chasing team wins; not because one team effectively hacks cricket.