T20 cricket statistics show how quickly the format rewards power, efficiency and repeat performances. The records below focus mainly on ICC Men’s T20 World Cups, with selected figures from T20 internationals and all T20 cricket. Measurement periods are stated with each group so tournament records are not confused with career or competition-wide totals.
Contents
- Leading Men’s T20 World Cup run-scorers
- Big scores and fastest centuries
- Six-hitting records
- Bowling and wicket-taking figures
- Wicketkeeping and fielding
- 2024 World Cup records
- 2026 World Cup records
Leading Men’s T20 World Cup run-scorers
Across Men’s T20 World Cup history, Virat Kohli leads the listed run-scoring records with 1,141 runs across five editions. Mahela Jayawardene follows with 1,016, while Chris Gayle has 965. Rohit Sharma has 963 and Tillakaratne Dilshan has 897. These are tournament totals, not overall T20I career figures.
| Batter | Men’s T20 World Cup runs | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Virat Kohli | 1,141 | Across five editions |
| Mahela Jayawardene | 1,016 | Tournament total |
| Chris Gayle | 965 | Tournament total |
| Rohit Sharma | 963 | Tournament total |
| Tillakaratne Dilshan | 897 | Tournament total |
The source also records Kohli’s 319 runs in the 2014 edition as the most by any batter in a single Men’s T20 World Cup. Gayle’s tournament production includes 222 runs at a strike rate of 150.00 in 2012 and 113 runs at 194.82 in 2016. Those edition figures illustrate the difference between aggregate output and scoring rate: a smaller total can still arrive at a much faster pace.
The 2016 figure is especially notable because Gayle’s 113 runs came at a strike rate above 190. The available record also places Gayle’s 965 World Cup runs behind Jayawardene’s 1,016, giving the Sri Lankan a 51-run lead in that comparison. No broader career total is inferred from these tournament measurements.
Big scores and fastest centuries
Brendon McCullum’s 123 against Bangladesh in 2012 is listed as the highest individual score in Men’s T20 World Cups. Gayle’s 117 against South Africa in 2007 is second. These innings sit above the tournament’s fastest-century list, which measures balls faced rather than runs scored.
| Rank by speed | Batter | Balls | Opponent and year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finn Allen | 33 | Men’s T20 World Cup, 2026 |
| 2 | Chris Gayle | 47 | England, 2016 |
| 3 | Chris Gayle | 50 | South Africa, 2007 |
| 4 | Brendon McCullum | 51 | Bangladesh, 2012 |
| 5 | Rilee Rossouw | 52 | Bangladesh, 2022 |
| 6 | Ahmed Shehzad | 58 | Bangladesh, 2014 |
The 47-ball century by Gayle against England in 2016 was identified as the fastest in the supplied pre-2026 record set. Gayle’s 50-ball hundred against South Africa in 2007 was second-fastest, followed by McCullum’s 51-ball century in 2012, Rossouw’s 52-ball century in 2022 and Shehzad’s 58-ball century in 2014. The 2026 record listing places Allen’s century at 33 balls, ahead of Gayle’s previous 47-ball mark.
These figures should be read as tournament records for the Men’s T20 World Cup. They do not establish a general fastest-century record across every domestic league or every T20 match. The distinction matters because the dataset separately reports all-T20 milestones for players such as Gayle and Dwayne Bravo.
Six-hitting records
Gayle has hit 63 sixes in Men’s T20 World Cups, the listed tournament record. Rohit Sharma has 35, while Jos Buttler and Yuvraj Singh have 33 each. Shane Watson and David Warner have 31 apiece.
| Player | Men’s T20 World Cup sixes |
|---|---|
| Chris Gayle | 63 |
| Rohit Sharma | 35 |
| Jos Buttler | 33 |
| Yuvraj Singh | 33 |
| Shane Watson | 31 |
| David Warner | 31 |
Another supplied source describes Gayle’s lead over Yuvraj as 30 sixes and records two separate innings in which Gayle hit 10 sixes: against South Africa in 2007 and England in 2016. Across all T20 cricket, he hit 10 or more sixes in an innings on 18 occasions and accumulated 1,045 sixes. His record for sixes in one innings is 18, set in the Bangladesh Premier League final in 2017.
Gayle also reached 100 sixes in a calendar year six times: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Andre Russell reached that mark once, in 2019. These calendar-year and all-T20 measures cover a wider sample than World Cup statistics and should not be combined with tournament totals.
The all-T20 batting record set includes 22 hundreds for Gayle. Aaron Finch, David Warner and Michael Klinger each have eight T20 hundreds in the same comparison. The figures describe hundreds across T20 cricket rather than only international matches.
Bowling and wicket-taking figures
Ajantha Mendis’s 6/8 against Zimbabwe remains the best innings bowling figure listed for Men’s T20 World Cups. Other leading figures include Rangana Herath’s 5/3 against New Zealand, Umar Gul’s 5/6 against New Zealand, Sam Curran’s 5/10 against Afghanistan, Ahsan Malik’s 5/19 against South Africa and Adam Zampa’s 5/19 against Bangladesh.
| Bowler | Figures | Opponent |
|---|---|---|
| Ajantha Mendis | 6/8 | Zimbabwe |
| Rangana Herath | 5/3 | New Zealand |
| Umar Gul | 5/6 | New Zealand |
| Sam Curran | 5/10 | Afghanistan |
| Ahsan Malik | 5/19 | South Africa |
| Adam Zampa | 5/19 | Bangladesh |
The figures are expressed as wickets/runs conceded in an innings. Herath’s 5/3 and Gul’s 5/6 therefore indicate five wickets at exceptionally low run costs, while the two 5/19 returns are tied on the supplied numbers.
Dwayne Bravo has 27 wickets for West Indies in Men’s T20 World Cups and 78 wickets in Men’s T20 internationals. In West Indies’ 2016 winning campaign, he took nine wickets. At the broader all-T20 level, Bravo is listed as the only bowler with more than 500 wickets, with 553, and as a player with 16 T20 titles.
The 2024 tournament records add a rate-based comparison. Chris Jordan’s bowling strike rate was 8.3, the best in a Men’s T20 World Cup edition in that source. Fazalhaq Farooqi recorded 8.9 and Tabraiz Shamsi 9.2, while Jacques Kallis’s previous 2012 record was 9.4. The supplied data also records Jordan taking four wickets in a quadruple-wicket maiden over against the USA.
Wicketkeeping and fielding
MS Dhoni has 32 wicket-keeping dismissals in Men’s T20 World Cups, including 21 catches and 11 stumpings. His 21 catches are listed as the most by a wicketkeeper in the tournament. Kamran Akmal has 30 wicket-keeping dismissals and the tournament record of 18 stumpings.
Other listed wicketkeeping totals are 27 dismissals for Denesh Ramdin, 26 for Kumar Sangakkara and 22 for Quinton de Kock. These are dismissal totals, so they combine catches and stumpings where the source gives no separate breakdown.
| Player | Wicket-keeping dismissals | Additional record |
|---|---|---|
| MS Dhoni | 32 | 21 catches; 11 stumpings |
| Kamran Akmal | 30 | 18 stumpings |
| Denesh Ramdin | 27 | — |
| Kumar Sangakkara | 26 | — |
| Quinton de Kock | 22 | — |
Fielding away from the wicket is measured separately. AB de Villiers took 23 catches as a non-wicketkeeper fielder in Men’s T20 World Cups. That number should not be added to wicketkeeping dismissal totals because it represents a different role and category.
2024 World Cup records
The 2024 Men’s T20 World Cup produced 1,478 boundaries, the most in an edition to that point. The 2021 tournament had 1,349. Six-hitting also increased from 405 in 2021 to 515 in 2024. The supplied figures therefore show 170 more total boundaries and 110 more sixes in 2024, although no additional boundary breakdown is assumed.
Nicholas Pooran hit 17 sixes in the 2024 edition, surpassing Gayle’s previous single-edition record of 16. India’s 176/7 in the 2024 final was the highest team total in a Men’s T20 World Cup final in that record set.
Rohit Sharma was 37 years and 60 days old when he became the oldest man to captain a side to T20 World Cup glory. Lockie Ferguson became the first man to bowl four maiden overs in a T20 World Cup spell, finishing with 3/0 from four overs against Papua New Guinea.
2026 World Cup records
The 2026 record set lists several major scoring milestones. India made 255/5 in the final, the highest total in a T20 World Cup final and the highest total in any T20I knockout or playoff match in that source. India also made 253/7 against England in the semi-final and 256/4 against Zimbabwe, the highest team total at that tournament.
India became the first team to register two consecutive 250-plus scores at a Men’s T20 World Cup. Its final powerplay of 92/0 equaled the highest powerplay score in a Men’s T20 World Cup match. Sanju Samson’s 89 in the final was the highest individual score in a Men’s T20 World Cup final.
The India–England semi-final produced 499 runs, the highest match aggregate in Men’s T20 World Cups and the second-highest match aggregate in T20I history according to the supplied record. The same match produced 34 sixes, listed as a T20 World Cup record for that match context.
Sahibzada Farhan scored 383 runs in the 2026 tournament, the most in a single Men’s T20 World Cup edition in this record set. Tim Seifert scored 326 and Sanju Samson 321. Farhan and Fakhar Zaman also made a 176-run partnership, listed as the highest partnership for any wicket in T20Is.
Other 2026 batting marks include Abhishek Sharma’s 18-ball half-century, the fastest of the edition and in a T20 World Cup knockout game, and Samson’s 24 sixes, the most in a single edition. India hit 106 sixes, becoming the first team to pass 100 sixes in a T20I event.
The same tournament record lists Brian Bennett with 292 runs at an average of 146.00, not out in four of six innings. The data also records Allen’s 33-ball century as the fastest Men’s T20 World Cup century. These 2026 figures are tournament-specific measurements and should be kept separate from the earlier historical records above.