India won the T20I series against New Zealand 2-1, winning the decider in Ahmedabad by 168 runs. This is not a record for all T20Is, but it is a record for T20Is between full members.
The previous record for matches between full members was 143 runs, which has occurred twice: India vs Ireland in June 2018 and Pakistan vs West Indies in April 2018.
Looking at individual scores:
We see that Shubman Gill’s 126* is the highest T20I score for India. It surpasses V Kohli’s 122* vs Afghanistan in Sep 2022.
A total of 116 ODIs have been played between these teams,
India have won 58, New Zealand 50, ties 1, no result 7
In India: 29-8-0-1
In NZ: 14-26-1-4
Neutral 15-16-0-2
Note the strong home advantage for both teams.
Looking at individual performances, starting with Batting:
Most runs (750 or more):
The most centuries were 6 by Sehwag, followed by three players with 5 (Tendulkar, Kohli and Astle). The most 50+ scores were 13 by Kohli and Tendulkar, followed by 11 by R Taylor.
Highest innings scores (115 or more):
In this series, S Gill’s 208 became the highest for India against NZ, surpassing Tendulkar’s 186* in 1999. That was at Hyderabad, though on another ground.MG Bracewell’s 140 was the highest for NZ in India, surpassing NJ Astle’s 120 in 1999. Conway’s 138 also surpassed the old record.
Highest batting averages (Minimum 20 innings, all instances):
Headed by Kohli with Latham close behind.
Highest strike rates (Minimum 500 balls faced and 75.00):
Headed by Sehwag with Kapil Dev close behind.
Now for Bowling:
Most wickets (20 or more):
Srinath is far ahead of the second-placed Kumble. Southee has the most among current players.
Best innings bowling (including all 5wi):
SE Bond is the only one with a 6-for. Next is A Mishra. K Srikkanth is the only one with 2 five-fors.
Best bowling averages (Minimum 1000 balls bowled, all instances):
The best averages are by Srinath and Hadlee.
The best economy rates are by Hadlee and Kapil
The best strike rates are by Srinath and Southee.
Next is Fielding:
Most dismissals (12 or more):
Headed by the lesser-known NR Mongia, who also has the most stumpings. Latham has the most from current players, and R Taylor has the most catches by a fielder
Best innings fielding (4 or more dismissals):
Several have made 5 dismissals in an innings. Similarly for 4 catches as a fielder.
Best dismissal rate (Minimum 20 innings, 0.500):
Again headed by NR Mongia.
All-round performances:
Overall performances (see criteria in table below):
Only one player qualifies here,
Match performances:
Only one player qualifies, and he was an occasional bowler.
India won the series 3-0, being the latest in a series of numerous clean sweeps against Sri Lanka. The highlight was a 317-run victory in the 3rd match, which is the biggest victory margin in any ODI. More on this topic here: https://abn397.wordpress.com/2023/01/15/record-victories-in-odis/
A total of 165 ODIs have been played between these teams.
India has won 96, Sri Lanka 57, 1 tied and 11 no-results.
In India: 39-12-0-3
In Sri Lanka: 30-28-0-6
On neutral grounds: 27-17-1-2
Interestingly, the first ODI between these teams was during the 1979 World Cup in England. Sri Lanka won. India did not win any match in that tournament.
Looking at individual performances, starting with
Batting:
Most runs (750 or more):
Headed by Tendulkar and Jayasuriya. Kohli is in 5th place.
Kohli has the most centuries (10) followed by Tendulkar with 8. For 50+ scores, Tendulkar has 25 and Sangakkara 24.
Highest innings scores (125 or more):
Headed by 2 double centuries by RG Sharma. His 264 is the record individual score in ODIs. Kohli’s 166* is in 7th place.
Highest batting averages (Minimum 20 innings and 35.00):
Bangladesh won the series 2-1. However the first two matches were won by the narrow margins of 1 wicket and 5 runs, while India won the 3rd match by a massive margin of 227 runs.
Bangladesh had also won 2-1 against India in 2015.
Here we review the main statistical highlights of ODIs between these teams.
Overall results:
While Bangladesh has done relatively well on its home soil, it has not yet won an ODI against India in India. They have won only one match on neutral grounds, but that was enough to prevent India proceeding further in the 2007 World Cup.
We now look at individual records, starting with Batting:
Most runs (250 or more):
Ishan Kishan is not here as his 210 was scored in his only ODI against Bangladesh.
Kohli and RG Sharma head this list, with Shakib in third place.
Highest innings (100 or more):
Ishan Kishan has the highest score here. Among other things, this is the highest maiden century in any ODI.
It is far ahead of the earlier mark of 175 by V Sehwag during the 2011 World Cup. The best by Bangladesh is
121 by Litton Das in 2018.
The records set by Ishan Kishan are summarised here:
This list is led by 4 Bangladeshi bowlers, starting with Shakib with 28. Agarkar has the most for India with 18.
Best innings bowling (including all 5wi):
Headed by the startling 6 for 4 by STR Binny. The next best is 6-43 by Mustafizur. Also note Sehwag’s 4 for 6.
Best bowling averages (Minimum 1000 balls bowled):
Shakib heads this list which has only one other member in Mortaza.
Now for Fielding:
Most dismissals (6 and above):
Dhoni (32) is followed by Mushfiqur with 29.Dhoni has the most stumpings with 10, while Mushfiqur has the most catches as a keeper (25). The most catches by a fielder are 8 by S Dhawan.
Most dismissals in an innings (4 and more):
Led by MS Dhoni and Mushfiqur Rahim with 5. Dhoni has 2 stumpings, while the most by a fielder is 4 by S Dhawan.
Highest dismissal rates (Minimum 20 innings):
Led by Dhoni and Mushfiqur again. Mortaza and Shakib have the best figures for fielders.
All-round performances:
Overall (see criteria from table):
Only Shakib has batted and bowled enough.
Match figures (Minimum of a fifty and a 5wi):
Only 3 instances here. Tendulkar’s 47 and 4-54 would appear to be the best.
This includes all teams who have participated in one or more tournaments until 2022, and also includes the preliminary rounds which are held just before the main tournament.
Here we see that Nepal has the highest W/L ratio, though they played in only 3 matches in the preliminary rounds in 2014. Of the “regular” teams, India leads with 1.80 followed by Australia (1.67), Sri Lanka (1.63) and South Africa (1.60). The current champion (England, 1.26) and runner-up (Pakistan, 1.56) are further down.
Next we come to
Batting:
Most runs (500 and above):
V Kohli has leapfrogged over MJ and Gayle to head this list by a large margin. Next among current players are RG Sharma and DA Warner.
The only player with 2 centuries is Gayle. Several others have one.
The most 50+ scores is 14 by V Kohli (no centuries). Next are 9 by CH Gayle (including 2 centuries) and RG Sharma (no centuries).
Most 4s ; 111 by M Jayawardene, 103 by V Kohli
Most 6s: 63 by CH Gayle, 35 by RG Sharma
Next we look at Highest Innings Scores (85 and above):
There are 11 centuries, including two from 2022. SK Raina’s 101* from 2010 remains the highest for India. AD Hales (116*) has the highest score among current players. There is a single 99 (unbeaten) by LJ Wright.
Now we look at Batting Averages (Minimum 20 innings, all instances):
Headed by V Kohli with 81.50, almost twice that of second-placed JC Buttler with 42.05. Kohli was aided by a large proportion of unbeaten innings.
Finally for today, the Highest Batting Strike Rates (Minimum 250 balls faced and minimum 125.00):
Headed by Shahid Afridi (154) and KP Pietersen (148). The most by a current player is 147 by GJ Maxwell. The best for India is, unsurprisingly, V Kohli with 131.
The most by current players is 24 by Kuldeep Yadav and 22 by YS Chahal.
No one has more than one 5wi.
3 players have 3 instances of 4wi.
Best innings bowling (including all instances of 4wi):
SB Joshi’s 5-6 was the best in his short ODI career.
Kuldeep Yadav’s 4-18 at Delhi in this series is the best for India against SA at home. The previous best was 4-25 by Kumble at Wankhede in 1996.
Best bowling averages (Minimum 1000 balls bowled, all instances):
Donald and Pollock have the best averages. But no current player has bowled enough.
Kumble and Pollock have the best economy rates
Donald and Pollock have the best strike rates.
Now for
Fielding:
Most dismissals (10 and above):
Boucher (42) is closely followed by Dhoni (41). Dhoni has the most stumpings (11).
The most catches by a fielder is 23 by Kohli. Also note the “hybrid” de Villiers with 9 dismissals as keeper and 8 as fielder, totalling 17.
de Kock (25) has the most for current players.
Most innings dismissals (4 and above):
Boucher is the only one with 5 dismissals. GC Smith and Bavuma have taken 4 catches as fielders.
Best dismissal rate (Minimum 20 innings and 0.500):
Headed by Boucher. Kohli has the best rate by a fielder.
Finally, all-round performance:
Career performance (see criteria in table):
Cronje’s occasional bowling puts him at the top here, far ahead of Tendulkar. Strangely, Kallis does not qualify here.
Match performance (Minimum 30 runs and 3 wickets):
There are several instances here, but the best would clearly be by Kallis (Nov 2006) followed by Kallis again (Feb 2010). Honourable mention to Klusener.
Sri Lanka won the championship winning against Pakistan in the final.
The third and fourth places were taken by India and Afghanistan respectively.
Bangladesh and Hong Kong made up the final 6.
All the figures given below are for the matches starting from August 27, which include the 6 teams mentioned above but not the preliminary round in which Singapore, Kuwait and the UAE participated.
Team performances:
Batting: 100 or more runs:
M Rizwan has the most runs (281) closely followed by Kohli with 276.
Kohli was the only one to score a century in this tournament (which was his first in T20Is). He and Rizwan were the only ones to make three 50+ scores. The Sri Lankan pair of Nissanka and K Mendis made two 50+ scores each.
Highest individual scores (50 or more):
Kohli’s 122* is far ahead of the next scores of 84 and 78*
Most wickets (6 or more):
B Kumar leads with 11 wickets, followed by PWH de Silva (Hasaranga). Kumar was the only one with a 5 -for. He and two others also scored 4-fors, as we see below.
Best innings bowling (including all 3wi or better):
PM Liyanagamage is often listed as P Madushan in scorecards.
Most dismissals (3 or more):
Iftikhar and Nissanka lead with 5 dismissals as fielders. A number of keepers have made 3 dismissals.
Most innings dismissals (2 or more):
Karthik has made 3 dismissals as a keeper, while Nawaz and Nissanka took 3 catches as fielders. No stumping is recorded here.
All-round match performance (Minimum 20 runs and 2 wickets):
In three roughly equal efforts, Hasaranga’s 36 and 3-27 in the final would be the best.
In this tournament, Sri Lanka did outshine the more favoured India and Pakistan.
As India and Pakistan will not be playing T20I matches in the near future, we can review the few matches they have played since 2007.
Here is the
Complete list of matches until Sep 7, 2022:
India and Pakistan first met at the start of the 2007 T20 World Championship. While that was a tie, India won in a bowl-out and went on to win the final against Pakistan.
Of the 11 matches played, India won 7, Pakistan 3 and 1 was tied.
In India, India lead 2-1
No matches have been played in Pakistan.
On neutral grounds, India won 5, Pakistan 2 and 1 was tied.
Batting-most runs (100 and above):
Kohli has by far the most runs with 406. No one else has made even 200. Kohli also has the most fifties (4). No one from either side has scored a century.
Highest individual score (50 and above):
Rizwan just outscores Kohli here. Next is Gambhir in the 2007 final.
Rizwan also has the highest score in the current Asia Cup.
Bowling-most wickets (5 and above):
Umar Gul has the most wickets (11) followed by the current player B Kumar with 10.
Innings bowling-3wi and above:
Mohammad Asif’s 4-18 in 2007 is the best, followed by B Kumar’s 4-26 in the current Asia Cup.
Fielding-most dismissals (4 and above):
Headed by Dhoni (who else?) while Raina has the most catches by a fielder.
Fielding-most innings dismissals (3 and above):
Headed by Dhoni again with 4 catches. 3 others (Raina and current players Karthik and Nawaz) with 3 are next.
All-round performance
At least 20 runs and 2 wickets in an innings:
Only 2 instances, with HH Pandya’s effort in this Asia Cup being the best.
This has several current players at the top, led by B Kumar.
OC McCoy has the only case of 5wi. 4 players have taken 4+wi.
Best innings bowling (3wi or more):
In this series OC McCoy took 6-17, which is the best for WI vs Ind surpassing D Sammy’s 4-16 in 2011. It is also i) the best in any T20I for WI and ii) the best for any team in any T20I against India.
R Bishnoi’s 4-16 is the best for India against WI, surpassing the 3-4 by DL Chahar in 2019.
Now for Fielding:
Most dismissals (5 or more):
Led by RG Sharma with 12 dismissals.
Most innings dismissals (3 or more):
Several have taken 3 dismissals in an innings.
All-round match performance:
Minimum 20 runs and 2 wickets in a match:
The best here is by DJ Bravo (66*, 4-38). AR Patel achieved this during this series.
India won 3-0 in the West Indies, their first clean sweep in an ODI series against WI in WI.
Earlier in 2022 India had also won 3-0 against the West Indies at home, which was their first clean sweep in an ODI series against WI.
Long ago, West Indies had won 5-0 against India in India in 1983-84, which may be considered as revenge for the 1983 World Cup final. They had also won 5-0 against India in the West Indies in 1988-89.
Here we review performances between these teams in all ODIs.
Summary:
India now leads 70-63 overall, and trails 19-20 for matches in the West Indies. India leads 32-28 for matches in India and 19-15 for matches in neutral venues.
Individual records:
Batting:
Most runs (750 and above):
Led by Kohli and RG Sharma, who did not play in this series.
Dhawan (1012) and Hope (877) have the most runs among those who played in this series.
The most centuries are 9 by Kohli, followed by Gayle and Tendulkar with 4.
The most 50+ scores are 20 by Kohli, followed by 15 each by RG Sharma and Tendulkar.
Highest individual scores (115 and above):
Sehwag has the top score of 219. In this series the highest was 115 by SD Hope.
Highest batting average (Minimum 20 innings and 30.00):
Kohli leads here with 66.50.
SD Hope (46.15) and Dhawan (34.89) have the highest averages among those who played in this series.
Headed by Sehwag (102.57). Second is SS Iyer (99.60) who played in this series, with Viv Richards (99.50) in third place. Further down there is S Dhawan (86.86) who also played in this series.
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