By Prakhar Sachdeo
CNBC-TV18.com
Published May 29, 2024
The ninth edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup will be played in the USA and the West Indies from June 1 to June 29. The tournament will feature 20 teams, divided into four groups. Here we look at the 5 tournament records that are likely to be broken this time around.
AB De Villers holds the record for the most catches in T20 World Cups. The former South African skipper has taken 24 catches. But that record is likely to be broken this time around. David Warner has 21 catches in T20 World Cups and is three catches short of going level with de Villiers. If Warner takes 4 catches in this T20 World Cup, he will become the fielder with the most catches in the tournament's history.
Mahella Jayawardena has hit 111 fours in all the T20 World Cup matches that he has played in his career. It makes him the batter with the most fours in the tournamen's history. However, India's Virat Kohli can leave Jayawardena behind this year. Kohli has 103 T20 World Cup fours to his name. Just 9 more fours from Kohli's bat will make him the batsman with the most fours in the tournament's history.
Chris Gayle has hit the fastest hundred in the tournament's history. The Universe Boss has blasted a T20 World Cup century in only 47 balls. But the batters are scoring runs at a breakneck pace these days and are hitting more sixes and fours than ever before. So we could see Gayle's record of the fastest ton in T20 World Cup broken in this edition of the T20 World Cup.
Australia's men's cricket team already holds the ICC World Test Championship title and the ICC ODI World Cup title. If Australia wins the final of the ICC T20 World Cup 2024, then it will become the first team in cricket's history to hold all the coveted title at the same time. It is a treble that has never before been achieved in cricket.
Virat Kohli currently holds the record for the most runs in a single edition of a T20 World Cup. The batting great scored 319 runs in 6 matches during the 2014 edition of the T20 World Cup. But with 20 teams participating in this edition of the World Cup, the most-ever in the tournament's history, more matches will be played in this edition than ever before. So it is very likely a batsman can overtake Kohli's long-standing record this year.