Professional cricket statistics span far more than runs and wickets. They also describe match results, partnerships, audience reach, participation, membership and the finances supporting the international game. The figures below bring those measures together while keeping each measurement period and source label visible.
Contents
- International reach and participation
- Test batting records
- Glenn McGrath’s career record
- Women’s tournament results
- Women’s batting and bowling leaders
- Fielding and partnership records
- ICC membership and financial measures
International reach and participation
The ICC Update: Edition 10, 2026 reports several measures of cricket’s reach around major events and development activity. The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 reached 1.3 million fans in venues. The same update reports 2.4 million emerging-market fans for the Men’s T20 World Cup. These are different audience measures: one counts fans in venues, while the other identifies fans in emerging markets.
The Men’s T20 World Cup final drew 72 million concurrent viewers and set a global streaming record, according to the ICC Update: Edition 10, 2026. Concurrent viewers describe the audience watching at the same time, so this figure should not be read as a cumulative total across a broadcast or tournament.
The ICC Women’s World Cup 2025 delivered 1.5 billion global viewing hours. The ICC Update: Edition 10, 2026 says that total was three times the previous edition. Viewing hours measure accumulated time watched, which makes them different from the 72 million concurrent viewers reported for the men’s T20 World Cup final.
The same ICC update records more than $110 million USD in new commercial agreements. It also reports 700 bilateral T20Is among Associate Members outside ICC events in 2025. Grassroots participation jumped 25%, and women and girls accounted for 42% of new participants. Together, these measures cover commercial activity, international match activity and new-participant composition; they are not interchangeable indicators of audience size.
Test batting records
Wiaan Mulder scored 367 not out from 334 balls, including 49 fours and 4 sixes. The performance was South Africa’s highest ever in Test cricket, according to “Mulder creates Proteas history with milestone triple hundred.” The innings therefore has both a national record dimension and a place in the broader men’s Test individual-score list.
Mulder’s 367 not out was the fifth-highest individual score in Men’s Tests in the supplied record. The four higher scores listed by “Mulder creates Proteas history with milestone triple hundred” were Brian Lara’s 400 not out, Matthew Hayden’s 380 against Zimbabwe, Brian Lara’s 375 against England and Mahela Jayawardene’s 374 against South Africa.
| Position in the listed Men’s Test score records | Batter | Score | Additional detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brian Lara | 400 not out | Highest individual score listed |
| 2 | Matthew Hayden | 380 | Against Zimbabwe |
| 3 | Brian Lara | 375 | Against England |
| 4 | Mahela Jayawardene | 374 | Against South Africa |
| 5 | Wiaan Mulder | 367 not out | South Africa’s highest Test score |
The same source reports that Mulder’s triple hundred came in 297 balls, making it the second-quickest triple century in Test history in that record. Virender Sehwag reached a triple hundred in 278 balls, faster than Mulder’s effort. The two measures—total score and balls required to reach 300—answer different questions. Mulder’s 367 not out ranks fifth in the listed individual scores, while his 297-ball triple hundred ranks second in the listed speed comparison.
Glenn McGrath’s career record
The ICC Hall of Famers profile for Glenn McGrath records 563 Test wickets in 124 Test matches. His Test bowling average was 21.64. In one-day internationals, the same source records 381 wickets in 250 ODIs and an ODI bowling average of 22.02.
| Format | Matches | Wickets | Bowling average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tests | 124 | 563 | 21.64 |
| ODIs | 250 | 381 | 22.02 |
These figures are format-specific. The match totals should not be combined to create a single all-format career total here, because the supplied records present Test and ODI performance separately. Likewise, the averages belong to their respective formats.
McGrath won three ICC Men’s Cricket World Cups with Australia. The ICC Hall of Famers profile also records his 7/15 against Namibia as the best figures ever delivered at a World Cup. Bowling figures of 7/15 describe wickets taken and runs conceded in that spell or innings; they are distinct from a career bowling average.
Women’s tournament results
The ICC Women’s Cricket media guide lists tournament records for nine teams. Australia Women played 26 matches, winning 19 and losing 6, with 1 tie+win recorded in the table. England Women played 24 matches and won 18. New Zealand Women also played 24 matches and won 18.
| Team | Matches | Wins | Losses or other listed result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia Women | 26 | 19 | 6 losses; 1 tie+win |
| England Women | 24 | 18 | Not specified in supplied record |
| New Zealand Women | 24 | 18 | Not specified in supplied record |
| West Indies Women | 22 | 13 | Not specified in supplied record |
| India Women | 21 | 9 | Not specified in supplied record |
| Pakistan Women | 20 | 5 | Not specified in supplied record |
| Sri Lanka Women | 20 | 6 | Not specified in supplied record |
| South Africa Women | 19 | 6 | Not specified in supplied record |
| Bangladesh Women | 9 | 2 | Not specified in supplied record |
The media guide’s match totals show the different sample sizes behind the records. Bangladesh Women’s table entry covers 9 matches and 2 wins, while Australia Women’s covers 26 matches. Results should therefore be read alongside matches played rather than treated as a like-for-like ranking based only on wins.
Women’s batting and bowling leaders
The ICC Women’s Cricket media guide records CM Edwards with 768 runs in 24 matches at an average of 36.57. SW Bates scored 720 runs in 24 matches at 32.72, while SR Taylor scored 711 runs in 21 matches at 41.82. MD Raj scored 619 runs in 21 matches at 38.68.
The batting table also records MM Lanning with 596 runs, a strike rate of 121.38 and one century. DJS Dottin scored 517 runs with a strike rate of 133.59 and one century. DJS Dottin hit 17 sixes, the most in the women’s tournament records table. SFM Devine hit 10 sixes and JE Cameron hit 9.
Runs, average and strike rate describe different parts of batting performance. The supplied records do not provide the match counts or averages for Lanning and Dottin in the same entries, so those figures are kept separate rather than combined into an unsupported comparison.
On the bowling side, EA Perry took 27 wickets in 26 matches at an average of 18.66. A Shrubsole took 26 wickets in 18 matches at 13.03, S Ismail took 24 wickets in 19 matches at 16.75, and SFM Devine took 22 wickets in 20 matches at 14.86. The wicket totals and averages should be interpreted with the listed match counts in view.
Fielding and partnership records
The ICC Women’s Cricket media guide records JL Gunn with 16 catches across 24 matches and LS Greenway with 14 catches across 24 matches. JE Cameron took 11 catches across 17 matches. These are fielding totals, separate from wicketkeeping dismissals.
RH Priest and SJ Taylor each recorded 20 wicketkeeping dismissals. SJ Taylor had 4 dismissals in a single innings, the most in the dismissal table. A single-innings record is a match-level measure, while the 20-dismissal figures are totals across the listed tournament records.
The partnership records show a highest opening partnership of 163 not out by L Lee and D van Niekerk. The second-highest opening partnership listed was 118 not out by SW Bates and AL Watkins. For the third wicket, SC Taylor and BL Morgan recorded the highest listed partnership at 122 not out. The highest tenth-wicket partnership listed was 20 by Almas Akram and Batool Fatima.
Partnership position matters when comparing these entries: an opening partnership and a tenth-wicket partnership occur in different batting contexts. The records are therefore best read as wicket-specific benchmarks rather than as one undifferentiated partnership ranking.
ICC membership and financial measures
The ICC Annual Report and Accounts 2002-03 recorded revenue of $224,706,000, operating profit of $202,440,000 and net profit of $10,632,000. The same report listed cash and bank balances of 149,149 at year end. The supplied record does not specify a currency symbol for that balance, so the figure is retained without adding one.
The report recorded 33 employees at year-end and an average ICC headcount of 31 employees during 2002-03. These are different staffing measures: one is a year-end count and the other is an average for the reporting period.
The ICC Annual Report 2003-04 says its annual participation study covered 78 of 79 Associate and Affiliate Members. Active participants in Associate and Affiliate Member countries increased 26% from 2002 to 2003. That report also recorded ICC membership of 89 members, including 10 Full Members, 27 Associate Members and 52 Affiliate Members.
The membership categories sum to the reported total: 10 Full Members, 27 Associate Members and 52 Affiliate Members make 89 members. The participation study’s coverage figure is different: it concerns 78 of 79 Associate and Affiliate Members, not all 89 ICC members. Keeping those scopes separate is essential when reading professional cricket statistics across reports.