India vs WI T20Is-Feb 2022

India won this series 3-0, like the corresponding ODI series earlier in the month.

The last T20I series between these sides was won 2-1 by India in India in Dec 2019. In Aug 2019 India had won 3-0 in a series in WI and the USA.

Here is a summary of all T20Is between these teams:

We now look at individual scores, starting with

Batting:

Most runs (100 or more):

Headed by RG Sharma and Kohli who played in the current series. N Pooran, another current player, has the most runs for WI. KA Pollard is next.

E Lewis is the only one with 2 centuries. The most 50+ scores are 6 by Kohli and 5 by RG Sharma.

Highest innings (70 or more):

Note that no one crossed 70 in this series.

Highest strike rate (Minimum 250 balls faced):

Headed by Kohli and RG Sharma.

Now for Bowling:

Most wickets (6 or more):

DJ Bravo and Sammy (4-16 listed below) are the only ones to have taken 4wi.

Best innings bowling (3wi or more):

The best from this series are 3-22 by HV Patel and 3-25 by RL Chase.

We do not have sufficient data for meaningful bowling averages etc.

Next is Fielding:

Most dismissals (5 or more):

The top 3 RG Sharma, Pollard and Kohli all played in this series.

The most dismissals by a keeper are 5 by Dhoni, Pant and Ramdin.

Most innings dismissals (3 or more):

This includes 3 by I Kishan in this series.

Finally

All-round performances;

Minimum 20 and 2wi in match:

DJ Bravo’s 66* and 4-38 in the 2009 World Cup are among the finest all-round performances in T20Is. Also note VR Iyer’s performance in this series, which is the best for India.

T20I performances of 2021 – Pt 1

A review of team and individual performances in T20Is in the calendar year 2021.

As discussed here, for any meaningful comparison, we should not consider all T20Is but only those of a reasonable standard (i.e. those who have or had Test or ODI status in the past). These are:

1. Afghanistan
2. Australia
3. Bangladesh
4. Bermuda
5. Canada
6. England
7. Hong Kong (HK)
8. India
9. Ireland
10. Kenya
11. Namibia
12. Nepal
13. Netherlands
14. New Zealand (NZ)
15. Oman
16. Pakistan
17. Papua New Guinea (PNG)
18. Scotland
19. South Africa (SA)
20. Sri Lanka (SL)
21. United Arab Emirates (UAE)
22. United States of America (USA)
23. West Indies (WI)
24. Zimbabwe

We first look at the performance of teams:

Among the teams which have played at least 10 matches, Pakistan has the best W/L ratio followed by South Africa and England. Zimbabwe brings up the tail with Ireland just above it.

Now for individual performances, starting with Batting

Most runs (300 and above):

Note that Mohammad Rizwan has by far the most runs, with his team-mate Babar Azam in second place. No one has scored more than one century. Rizwan has the most 50+ scores (13), followed by Azam (10).

The most runs by an Indian player are 424 by RG Sharma, in the middle of the table above.

Highest innings (80 and above):

Led by Babar Azam (122). The best for India is 80* by V Kohli.

Highest batting averages (Minimum 20 innings, all instances):

Inevitably headed by Rizwan, whose average is almost double that of the runner-up Azam. Nobody from India has played enough.

Highest strike rate (Minimum 250 balls faced, all instances):

Here WI’s E Lewis leads, followed by RG Sharma. No one else from India. The Pakistani pair of Rizwan and Azam are in the middle.

To be continued.

The records of the T20I match on 27 Jul 2016

Some records were almost broken (like Richard Levi’s 45-ball century). As you can see below, the challengers E Lewis and KL Rahul just fell short.

But here are some records which did get broken.

India’s 244/4 is their highest in T20Is, surpassing their 218/4 v England in the 2007 World Championship. It is also the highest in any T20I’s second innings, surpassing 236/6 by WI v SA in 2015. And it is the highest losing total in any T20I, surpassing SA’s 231/7 in the match against WI in 2015 mentioned earlier. And WI and India made the 3rd and 4th highest T20I totals in today’s match. All these details can be seen below:

Coming to individual scores: After todays’s match, 22 centuries in T20Is have been made by 20 players (Gayle and McCullum making two centuries apiece).

Of these 20, as many as 12 have made centuries in all three formats.

They are: Watson, McCullum, du Plessis, Gayle, Ahmed Shehzad, Rahul, RG Sharma, Dilshan, Tamim, Guptill, Raina and Jayawardene. And Rahul’s individual score is the highest in T20Is in the US, for what it is worth.

Interestingly, some of those listed above have never played in Tests or even ODIs. An extreme case is that of E Lewis who had played one T20I (without scoring much) before this and no ODI or Test.