Top 10 Interesting Records and Facts about T20 World Cup

#1 – Most Runs by any Batsman (In a Single Event): Virat Kohli (319) is the highest individual run-scorer in any single edition of World T20. He achieved the feat in the 2014 T20 World Cup played at Dhaka.

#2 – Highest Opening Stand: West Indies opening pair Chris Gayle and Dwayne Smith hold the world record of 145-run partnership for the 1st wicket (against South Africa) in any T20 world cup match.

#3 –  Most Ducks in World T20 Matches: Pakistani explosive batsman Shahid Afridi holds the unwanted world record for scoring most ducks in the T20 World Cup. He got out on 0 five times in his T20 World Cup.

#4 – Batsmen with 100s in T20 World Cup Match: Only 6 batsmen got hundreds in this tournament. They are Chris Gayle (117), Ahmed Shehzad (111*), McCullum (123), Suresh Raina (101), Mahela Jayawardene (100) and Alex Hales (116*).

#5 – Highest Team Total: Sri Lanka’s 260/6 against Kenya is the highest score ever by any team in World T20 championship. Sri Lanka achieved this feat in the inaugural 2007 ICC T20 Cricket World Cup.

#6 – Most Sixes: West Indian explosive batsman Chris Gayle holds the world record for hitting most sixes (43) in all 5 editions together in this coveted T20 championship.

#7 – Singh is King (2007): In the inaugural edition of World T20 which was held in 2007, Yuvraj Singh became the only batsman to hit 6 sixes in 6 balls of Stuart Broad. This is still a world record.

#8 – Best Bowling: Sri Lankan off-spinner Ajantha Mendis accomplished an astonishing feat of 6 for 8 in a T20 World Cup match against Zimbabwe in 2012. This is the still the best bowling figure in the tournament until now.

#9 –  Fastest Fifty: Yuvraj Singh is the fastest half-century maker in the T20 World Tournament. He hit 50 in just 12 deliveries in 2007. This record is still yet to be broken.

#10 – First Hat-Trick: Aussie speedster Brett Lee was the first bowler to accomplish hat-trick in this tournament. He got three wickets in 3 balls in a match against Bangladesh in 2007 T20 World Cup