Snippets from the 2023 World Cup

This tournament has seen many new records, particularly in batting.

This information is up to Nov 7, 2023 (after the Afg vs Aus match).

We first look at the individual’s innings scores for all WC matches:

Highest Innings scores of 150 or more in World Cup ODIs:

GJ Maxwell’s 201* is the third highest individual score in all World Cup matches. It is the highest score for Australia in World Cup matches., surpassing DA Warner’s 178 against Afghanistan in 2015.

If you look at the highest innings scores by Australian players, it reads:

201* GJ Maxwell vs Afg in 2023

178, DA Warner vs Afg in 2015

166, DA Warner vs Ban in 2019

163, DA Warner vs Pak in 2023

158, ML Hayden vs WI in 2007

Until now, DA Warner had the three highest scores for Australia.

For Indian players:

183, SC Ganguly vs SL in 1999

175*, Kapil Dev vs Zim in 1983

175, V Sehwag vs Ban in 2011

152, SR Tendulkar vs Nam in 2003

Another point of interest is the highest partnerships, when Maxwell and Cummins put on 202* for the 8th wicket against Afg. This table is again only about partnerships in the World Cup

Partnerships of 200 or more in World Cup ODIs:

Note that the 8th-wicket partnership of 202* was not the highest for Australia in the World cup. It is however the highest for the 8th wicket in the World Cup.

From the above table we can get the top partnerships for each wicket in the World Cup:

1st: TM Dilshan and WU Tharanga, 282 vs Zimbabwe, 2011

2nd: CH Gayle and MN Samuels, 372 vs Zimbabwe, 2015

3rd: R Dravid and SR Tendulkar, 237* vs Kenya, 1999

4th, MJ Clarke and BJ Hodge, 204 vs Netherlands, 2007

5th, JP Duminy and DA Warner, 256* vs Zimbabwe, 2015

(Some record lower-order partnerships are less than 200 and are not in the above list)

Anyway, the 202* by Maxwell and Cummins is a new 8th-wicket record for the World Cup. The earlier record for this was a mere 117 by Butchart and Houghton (of Zimbabwe) in 1987. Other partnerships for this wicket are less than 100.

Highest partnerships for the 8th wicket in World Cup ODIs:

There are, of course, many batting records being set in this World Cup. This is a small sample.

Records of the T20I World Cup (2007-2022): Part 2

Hope you have seen the first part:

Records of the T20I World Cup (2007-2022): Part 1

Continuing with Bowling statistics:

Most wickets (20 or more):

Shakib leads by a large margin over Shahid Afridi (the original one). From India, the best is 32 by Ashwin.

Best innings bowling (including all 5wi and over):

BAW Mendis and Herath have much better innings analyses than others including Umar Gul and Sam Curran. Curran’s 5-10 was the best in 2022. For India, the best is 4-11 by Ashwin in 2014

Best bowling averages (Minimum 500 balls bowled, all instances):

Only 7 bowlers have bowled enough to qualify. S Ajmal is closely followed by Ashwin, who is the only Indian player here. Next is Shakib.

Summing up this table:

Best averages: Ajmal, Ashwin

Best economy rates: Ashwin, S Afridi

Best strike rates: Ajmal, Ashwin.

Next we come to Fielding statistics:

Most dismissals (12 and above):

The most dismissals are 32 by ABD and Dhoni. AB de Villiers has 9 dismissals as a keeper and 23 as a fielder, while all of Dhoni’s 32 dismissals are as a keeper.

Kamran Akmal is next with 30 dismissals as a keeper, including the most stumpings at 18.

de Villers has the most catches as a fielder (23) followed by DA Warner with 21.

Most dismissals in an innings (4):

Nobody reached this level in 2022. Dhoni is the only one from India, and the only one to appear here twice. Also note the 4 stumpings by Kamran Akmal and Ramdin. DJG Sammy is the only fielder here.

Best dismissal rate (Minimum 20 innings and 0.600):

The best here is by the “hybrid” AB de Villiers with 1.066. Next are Dhoni and Kamran Akmal with 1.000.

The best by a “pure” fielder is 0.678 by MJ Guptill followed by current player GJ Maxwell (0.666)

Finally, we come to all-round performances:

Overall: Minimum 20 innings batted and 500 balls bowled:

Only 3 qualify here, with only Shakib having a creditable performance.

However, we get another viewpoint here:

Best match performance (Minimum 30 runs and 3 wickets):

The best performances here would be by DJ Bravo (66* and 4-38), followed by SR Watson’s 72 and 3-34 and Shakib’s 46 and 4-9. The best for India is by HH Pandya in 2022. Also note CR Brathwaite’s 34* which included 4 successive 6s in the 2016 final.

Most 6s in an ODI innings

In the World Cup match against Afghanistan on June 18, EJG Morgan made 148 off 71 balls with 17 6s and (only) 4 4s.

This is the listing for the most 6s in an ODI innings (10 or more) after England’s innings:

The live link for future reference:

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283127.html

Morgan overtook these 3 who shared the ODI record:

RG Sharma, 16 6s in 209, I v A, Bengaluru, 02/11/2013

AB de Villiers, 16 in 149, SA v WI, Jo’burg, 18/01/2015

CH Gayle, 16 in 215, WI v Zim, Canberra, 24/202/2015.

(So Gayle held the previous World Cup record).

No one else has scored 10 or more 6s in an innings so far in the 2019 World Cup. The best is 5 by JJ Roy for Eng v BD and AJ Finch for Aus v SL.

While on this topic, let us see the records for the most 4s in all ODIs (20 or more):

Live link:

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/284017.html

The runaway winner is RG Sharma with his 33 4s and 9 6s in the ODI record score of 264 for I v SL at Kolkata on 13/11/2014.

The next two positions are also held by India’s SR Tendulkar and V Sehwag (25 each), followed by ST Jayasuriya and several others with 24, i.e. far behind RG Sharma’s outlier.

The World Cup record is held by MJ Guptill with his 24 4s and 11 6s for NZ v WI at Wellington on 21/03/2015.

During this World Cup, no one else has crossed 20 4s. The best is 16 by these: