T20 World Cup records: Best batting, bowling and team numbers in history ahead of 2022 tournament

Joe Wright

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The T20 World Cup began this month with a real shock as the competition's most successful team suffered defeat to a real underdog.

Sri Lanka, who have more wins than anyone else at this event, faced Namibia at Kardinia Park in the opening match of the 2022 tournament in Australia and were remarkably beaten by 55 runs.

More surprises have followed, including England's defeat to Ireland and a quite spectacular finish to Pakistan vs. India, when Virat Kohli somehow inspired a victory in the final over.

Kohli and Sri Lanka are among the prominent features in a list of T20 World Cup record-breakers, in which some of the greatest players and teams the short format has ever seen have achieved moments of history.

Most recently, Rilee Rossouw and Quinton de Kock enjoyed the biggest run partnership in the competition's history as South Africa powered to victory over Bangladesh. That record was then broken by Jos Buttler and Alex Hales in England's brilliant semi-final win over India.

The highest partnership in #T20WorldCup history inspires England to a stunning win over India in the semi-finals in Adelaide 😍#INDvENG | 📝: https://t.co/HlaLdf632a pic.twitter.com/B9smQSPWx3
— T20 World Cup (@T20WorldCup) November 10, 2022

Here are some of the major batting, bowling and team records in the history of the T20 World Cup.

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T20 World Cup records: Batting

Most runs

	Player	Team	Runs
1.	Virat Kohli	India	1,141
2.	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	1,016
3.	Chris Gayle	West Indies	965
4.	Rohit Sharma	India	963
5.	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka	897

Highest innings score

	Player	Team	Runs	Match
1.	Brendon McCullum	New Zealand	123	vs. Bangladesh, Sep. 2012
2.	Chris Gayle	West Indies	117	vs. South Africa, Sep. 2007
3.	Alex Hales	England	116	vs. Sri Lanka, March 2014
4.	Ahmed Shehzad	Pakistan	111	vs. Bangladesh, March 2014
5.	Rilee Roussouw	South Africa	109	vs. Bangladesh, October 2022

Highest-scoring innings partnership

	Players	Team	Runs	Match
1.	Jos Butterl/Alex Hales	England	170	vs. India, Nov. 2022
2.	Quinton de Kock/Rilee Rossouw	South Africa	168	vs. Bangladesh, Oct. 2022
3.	Mahela Jayawardene/Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	166	vs. West Indies, May 2010
4.	Mohammad Rizwan/Babar Azam	Pakistan	152	vs. India, Oct. 2021
=	Alex Hales/Eoin Morgan	England	152	vs. Sri Lanka, Mar. 2014

1 - @Rileerr has become the first South African batter to register a ton in men's @T20WorldCup and only the second batter to do so in consecutive innings of men's T20Is after France's Gustav McKeon. History. #T20WorldCup #SAvBAN pic.twitter.com/TH0nbHAr8G
— OptaJim (@OptaJim) October 27, 2022

Best batting average

	Player	Team	Av. score (min. 10 innings)
1.	Virat Kohli	India	83.92
2.	Michael Hussey	Australia	54.62
3.	Kevin Pietersen	England	44.61
4.	Mohammad Rizwan	Pakistan	42.66
5.	JP Duminy	South Africa	40.57

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Best strike rate

	Player	Team	Av. strike rate (min. 125 balls faced)
1.	Suryakuma Yadav	India	184.13
2.	Darren Sammy	West Indies	164.12
3.	Shahid Afridi	Pakistan	154.23
4.	Marcus Stoinis	Australia	151.47
5.	Imran Nazir	Pakistan	150.00

Most fours

	Player	Team	Fours
1.	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	111
2.	Virat Kohli	India	103
3.	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka	101
4.	Rohit Sharma	India	91
5.	David Warner	Australia	86

Most sixes

	Player	Team	Sixes
1.	Chris Gayle	West Indies	63
2.	Rohit Sharma	India	35
3.	Yuvraj Singh	India	33
4.	Shane Watson	Australia	31
=	David Warner	Australia	31

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Most 50s

	Player	Team	50+ scores
1.	Virat Kohli	India	13
2.	Chris Gayle	West Indies	9
=.	Rohit Sharma	India	9
4.	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	7
5.	David Warner/Tillakaratne Dilshan	Australia/Sri Lanka	6

T20 World Cup records: Bowling

Most wickets

	Player	Team	Wickets
1.	Shakib Al Hasan	Bangladesh	47
2.	Shahid Afridi	Pakistan	39
3.	Lasith Malinga	Sri Lanka	38
4.	Saeed Ajmal	Pakistan	36
5.	Ajantha Mendis/Umar Gul	Sri Lanka/Pakistan	35

Best innings figures

	Player	Team	Innings figure	Match
1.	Ajantha Mendis	Sri Lanka	6/8	vs. Zimbabwe, Sep. 2012
2.	Rangana Herath	Sri Lanka	5/3	vs. New Zealand, Mar. 2014
3.	Umar Gul	Pakistan	5/6	vs. New Zealand, Jun. 2009
4.	Sam Curran	England	5/10	vs. Afghanistan, Oct. 2022
5.	Ahsan Malik	Netherlands	5/19	vs. South Africa, Mar. 2014

Best bowling economy

	Player	Team	Ec. rate (min. 250 deliveries)
1.	Sunil Narine	West Indies	5.17
2.	Samuel Badree	West Indies	5.52
3.	Wanindu Hasaranga	Sri Lanka	5.81
4.	Daniel Vettori	New Zealand	5.83
5.	Nathan McCullum	New Zealand	5.94

Best bowling strike rate

	Player	Team	Strike rate (min. 250 deliveries)
1.	Wanindu Hasaranga	Sri Lanka	11.8
2.	Adam Zampa	Australia	13.0
3.	Trent Boult	Australia	13.4
=	Ajantha Mendis	Sri Lanka	13.4
5.	Wayne Parnell	South Africa	13.9

Best average

	Player	Team	Average (min. 250 deliveries)
1.	Wanindu Hasaranga	Sri Lanka	11.45
2.	Adam Zampa	Australia	13.30
3.	Samuel Badree	West Indies	13.58
4.	Trent Boult	Australia	14.47
5.	Ajantha Mendis	Sri Lanka	15.02

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T20 World Cup records: Team

Most wins

	Team	Matches	Wins
1.	Sri Lanka	50	31
2.	India	43	27
3.	Pakistan	45	27
4.	Australia	40	25
5.	South Africa	40	24

Best win percentage

	Team	Matches	Win % (min. 10 matches)
1.	India	43	65.47
2.	Australia	40	62.5
3.	Sri Lanka	51	61.76
4.	South Africa	40	61.53
5.	Pakistan	45	61.11

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Biggest win (runs)

	Team	Opposition	Winning margin (runs)	Year
1.	Sri Lanka	Kenya	172	2007
2.	South Africa	Scotland	130	2009
=	Afghanistan	Scotland	130	2021
4.	England	Afghanistan	116	2012
5.	South Africa	Bangladesh	104	2022

Highest innings total

	Team	Opposition	Total runs	Year
1.	Sri Lanka	Kenya	260-6 (20 overs)	2007
2.	England	South Africa	230-8 (19.4 overs)	2016
3.	South Africa	England	229-4 (20 overs)	2016
4.	India	England	218-4 (20 overs)	2007
5.	South Africa	Scotland	211-5 (20 overs)	2009

Lowest innings total

	Team	Opposition	Total runs	Year
1.	Netherlands	Sri Lanka	39 (10.3 overs)	2014
2.	Netherlands	Sri Lanka	44 (10 overs)	2021
3.	West Indies	England	55 (14.2 overs)	2021
4.	Scotland	Afghanistan	60 (10.2 overs)	2014
5.	New Zealand	Sri Lanka	60 (15.3 overs)	2021

Joe Wright

Joe Wright is a Senior Editor at Sporting News, overseeing global soccer and multisport. He was previously a sub editor and writer for Goal.com before spending six years as part of the Stats Perform news service, covering major global sports news, data analytics, features and video content. Joe has extensive experience covering some of the biggest events in football, including two UEFA Champions League finals, Euro 2016, the Confederations Cup 2017 and the 2018 World Cup, which included the final in Moscow.