780 Sixes were hit in the 2026 T20 World Cup – the most in an edition of the tournament and a 50.87% increase from the 517 sixes in the 2024 T20 World Cup.
The balls per six ratio of 15.52 in 2026 is also the best among all editions – 600 sixes were hit in 35 matches in India, while 180 were hit in Sri Lanka.
4 Matches that Sanju Samson missed in this T20 World Cup, despite which he became the player of the tournament, by virtue of his three 80-plus scores in India’s last Super Eight game, the semi-final and the final. Four others have won the player-of-an-ICC tournament award despite not playing all the matches, but they missed no more than one game.
6/7 Six of the top seven team totals in T20 World Cups were scored in this edition. Sri Lanka’s 260 for 6 against Kenya in 2007 is still the highest despite 363 matches in the competition since then. Teams came within ten runs of surpassing Sri Lanka’s record four times, with India scoring three of them.
15 Catches dropped by India in this T20 World Cup; no one else dropped more than ten. It was the most catches dropped by a team in any men’s T20I series (or tournament) as per ESPNcricinfo’s ball-by-ball data logs. The previous highest was 14 drops by Ireland in the 2022 T20 World Cup.
383 Sahibzada Farhan‘s runs in this tournament are the most by any batter in an edition of the T20 World Cup. He was also the first batter to score two hundreds in a T20 World Cup.
Farhan’s 383 accounted for 37.3% of Pakistan’s total runs in this tournament and all their five fifty-plus stands involved him.
4 Number of times the record for the most sixes by a batter in a T20 World Cup was broken through the tournament. Nicholas Pooran held the record coming into the tournament, with 17 sixes in the 2024 T20 World Cup.
The record changed hands, starting with Farhan (18), followed by Shimron Hetmyer (19) and Finn Allen (20), before going to Samson, who finished with 24 sixes in only five matches.
20 Number of fifties scored in fewer than 25 balls at this T20 World Cup. All nine previous editions combined had only 27 such fifties, with no more than five in any of them. As many as six fifties in 2026 came in fewer than 20 balls.
1 India became the first team to win the men’s T20 World Cup three times. They are also the first team to win back-to-back titles and the first to win as hosts.
14 Totals of 200-plus in this T20 World Cup. Across the previous nine editions, there had been only 18 200-plus totals, and 5 came way back in 2007.
7 Individual hundreds in this tournament. None of the previous nine T20 World Cups had more than two individual tons. The two fastest hundreds have also come in this T20 World Cup.
6 Number of batters with 200-plus runs for India at this T20 World Cup – Ishan Kishan, Samson, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya and Shivam Dube, most for any team in a T20I series (or tournament). No other team had more than three such batters in a T20 World Cup.
India are also the first team to have six batters with a fifty-plus score in a T20 World Cup: Kishan, Suryakumar, Samson, Pandya, Dube and Abhishek Sharma.
3 Number of T20 World Cups in which Jasprit Bumrah had the best economy rate in the tournament among players to have bowled 100-plus balls – 5.08 in 2021, 4.17 in 2024 and 6.21 in 2026. No other bowler finished with the best economy rate of the tournament more than once.
25 Number of days Shadley van Schalkwyk had as the top wicket-taker of the tournament. He topped the bowling charts following successive four-wicket hauls against India and Pakistan. Schalkwyk last played on February 15 but his reign at the top lasted 42 games until the final.
106 Sixes India hit in nine matches in this T20 World Cup. They are the first team to hit 100-plus sixes in any series (or tournament) in men’s international cricket.
139 The batting strike rate in the 2026 T20 World Cup is the highest in any edition of the competition. There was a 26.41% increase in the batting strike rate from the previous T20 World Cup in 2024 (109.96) to this one.
54.86 Average winning margin by runs for teams batting first in this World Cup, the highest among all ten editions of the men’s T20 World Cup. Sixteen of the 29 matches won by teams batting first have been by a margin of 50-plus runs, while only four were less than 20.
8 Number of wickets that involved Shamar Joseph in West Indies’ match against Italy at Eden Gardens – four wickets as a bowler and four catches as a fielder. He became the first player to take four-plus wickets and four-plus catches in a limited-overs international (ODI or T20I). Only three players before Joseph were part of eight wickets in a T20I match.
117 T20I wickets before the final for Bumrah. No one else had 100 T20I wickets without a haul of four or more wickets. Bumrah’s 4 for 15 against New Zealand was his maiden four-wicket haul and he became only the second bowler to take a four-for in a men’s T20 World Cup final, after Ajantha Mendis in 2012.
146 for 9 England’s total against Sri Lanka in Pallekele, the only instance of a team successfully defending a sub-160 total in this World Cup. Only 12 times did a team batting first finish with a total under 160 in 53 completed matches.
Teams batting first successfully defended 160-plus totals in 28 out of 41 games. And no team was able to chase down any of the twelve targets of 200-plus.
8 Number of balls Abhishek faced without scoring a run during the group stage. He became only the second man, after Uganda’s Roger Mukasa, to bag a duck in their first three T20 World Cup games.
