T20 World Cup 2026 – India and Sanju Samson rack up records on way to historic title
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India have now won the title for the third time, after 2007 and 2024. West Indies (2012 and 2016) and England (2010 and 2022) have won the title twice apiece.
India are also the first team to win successive men’s T20 World Cups – no defending champion had even made it to the final previously. India are also the first team to win the tournament at home.
1-3 – India’s win-loss record
against New Zealand at the men’s T20 World Cup. India had lost each of their previous three matches against New Zealand. Sri Lanka are the only team that India have not beaten so far
in this competition.
255 for 5 – India’s total against New Zealand in the final is the highest in a knockout (or playoff) match in T20Is. Their 253 for 7 against England in the semi-final was the previous highest. It is also the
third-highest by any team in a men’s T20 World Cup match.
The
previous highest total by any team in a T20I final was 244 for 4 by Italy against Romania in 2024, in the Group A final of the Sub-Regional Europe Qualifier. No team had a 200-plus total in a T20 World Cup final prior to Sunday.
96 – India’s win margin against New Zealand is their biggest, by runs, in the
men’s T20 World Cup. Their previous biggest was 93 against Namibia earlier this World Cup.
The 96-run defeat is New Zealand’s
biggest by runs in this competition. Two of New Zealand’s three heaviest losses
in men’s T20Is have come against India in Ahmedabad.
4 for 15 – Jasprit Bumrah’s maiden four-wicket haul in T20Is. He is only the second bowler to claim a four-for
in the final of the men’s T20 World Cup. Ajantha Mendis took 4 for 12 against West Indies in 2012.
1 – India became the first team to score 250-plus in successive men’s T20Is, following the 253 for 7 they made against England in the semi-final. Only Sunrisers Hyderabad (in IPL 2024) had recorded successive 250-plus totals in men’s T20s before India.
Sunday was the third time India had gone past 250 in this World Cup. SRH, in IPL 2024, are the only others with three 250-plus totals in a men’s T20 series (or tournament). Overall, this was the fourth instance of India scoring 250-plus in T20Is in 2026, the most by any team in a year in all T20 cricket.
18 – Balls that
Abhishek Sharma needed for his fifty against New Zealand, the fastest by a batter in a T20 World Cup knockout game. The previous fastest was off 19 balls by Finn Allen against South Africa and Jacob Bethell against India in the semi-finals earlier in the week.
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Sanju Samson‘s score against New Zealand is the highest in a
T20 World Cup final. Marlon Samuels scored an unbeaten 85 against England in 2016, while Kane Williamson also made 85 against Australia in 2021.
Samson is only the third batter with fifties in both
semi-final and final of a men’s T20 World Cup, following Shahid Afridi in 2009 and Virat Kohli in 2014. Tim Seifert became the fourth to do so, with his fifty in the chase.
98 – Partnership between Abhishek and Samson is the highest by an opening pair in a
men’s T20 World Cup final, bettering the 48 between Kamran Akmal and Shahzaib Hasan against Sri Lanka in 2009 by 50 runs.
The 98-run stand between Abhishek and Samson is also
their highest in T20Is. It was also the first time they batted through the powerplay as an opening pair in T20Is.
92 for 0 – India’s total in the powerplay is the joint-highest by any team in the men’s T20 World Cup, equalling West Indies’ 92 for 1
against Afghanistan in 2024.
4 – Instances of Abhishek scoring a fifty inside the powerplay in T20Is, the most by any batter. Eswatini’s Adil Butt and Saudi Arabia’s Faisal Khan have three each. Abhishek is only the seventh batter to score a fifty in the powerplay in men’s T20 World Cups.
3 – Consecutive 80-plus scores for Samson, having scored 97* against West Indies and 89 against England in the previous two games. Mahela Jayawardene is the only other player to have three successive 80-plus scores in the T20 World Cup, which he achieved in 2010. It was also the first time that Samson had scored three successive half-centuries in 330 T20 matches.
321 – Samson’s runs in the tournament, the most by an India batter in a men’s T20 World Cup, going past Kohli’s 319 in 2014. Samson’s tally is the
third-highest in an edition, behind Sahibzada Farhan’s 383 and Tim Seifert’s 326, both in this World Cup.
Samson scored 178 of those 321 runs in the semis and finals, the highest by
any batter in an edition, surpassing Kohli’s 149 in 2014.
24 – Sixes Samson hit in this World Cup are the most in a single edition of the T20 World Cup. Finn Allen’s 20 sixes in this tournament are the
second-highest.
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