List of Australia Twenty20 International cricket records
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A Twenty20 International (T20I) is a form of cricket, played between two of the international members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), in which each team faces a maximum of twenty overs. The matches have top-class status and are the highest T20 standard. The game is played under the rules of Twenty20 cricket.[1][2] The first Twenty20 International match between two men's sides was played on 17 February 2005, involving Australia and New Zealand. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack reported that "neither side took the game especially seriously",[3] and it was noted by ESPNcricinfo that but for a large score for Ricky Ponting, "the concept would have shuddered".[4] However, Ponting himself said "if it does become an international game then I'm sure the novelty won't be there all the time".[5]
This is a list of Australia Cricket team's Twenty20 International records. It is based on the List of Twenty20 International records, but concentrates solely on records dealing with the Australian cricket team. Australia played the first ever T20I in 2005.
The top five records are listed for each category, except for the team wins, losses, draws and ties, all round records and the partnership records. Tied records for fifth place are also included. Explanations of the general symbols and cricketing terms used in the list are given below. Specific details are provided in each category where appropriate. All records include matches played for Australia only, and are correct as of August 2020.
Key
Symbol
Meaning
Player or umpire is currently active in T20I cricket
Even took place during a Cricket World Cup
*
Player remained not out or partnership remained unbroken
As of August 2021, Australia has played 146 T20I matches resulting in 73 victories, 68 defeats, 2 ties and 3 no results for an overall winning percentage of 51.74.[6]
The highest innings total scored in T20Is has been scored twice. The first occasion came in the match between Afghanistan and Ireland when Afghanistan scored 278/3 in the 2nd T20I of the Ireland series in India in February 2019.[10] The Czech Republic national cricket team against Turkey during the 2019 Continental Cup scored 278/4 to equal the record.[11] The highest score for Australia is 263/3 scored against Sri Lanka during the 2016 tour of Sri Lanka.[12]
Rank
Score
Opposition
Venue
Date
1
263/3
Sri Lanka
Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy, Sri Lanka
The lowest innings total scored was by Turkey against Czech Republic when they were dismissed for 21 during the 2019 Continental Cup.[11] The lowest score in T20I history for Australia is 62 scored against Bangladesh in the 2021 tour of Bangladesh.[14]
Rank
Score
Opposition
Venue
Date
1
62/10
Bangladesh
Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur, Bangladesh
9 August 2021
2
79/10
England
Rose Bowl, Southampton, England
13 June 2005
3
86/10
India
Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur, Bangladesh
The lowest score conceded by Australia for a full inning is 74 when they dismissed India during the India's tour of Australia in 2007-08 at the MCG and Pakistan during the 2012 series in the UAE at Dubai Sports City.[14]
The highest match aggregate scored in T20Is came in the match between India and West Indies in the first T20I of the August 2016 series at Central Broward Regional Park, Lauderhill when India scored 244/4 in response to West Indies score of 245/6 to lose the match by 1 run.[19] The fifth match of the 2017-18 Trans-Tasman Tri-Series against New Zealand saw ä total of 488 runs being scored, the most involving Australia.[16]
Rank
Aggregate
Scores
Venue
Date
1
488/11
New Zealand (243/6) v Australia (245/5)
Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand
16 February 2018
2
457/12
Australia (248/6) v England (209/6)
Rose Bowl, Southampton, England
29 August 2013
3
441/12
Australia (263/3) v Sri Lanka (178/9)
Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy, Sri Lanka
The lowest match aggregate in T20Is is 57 when Turkey were dismissed for 28 by Luxembourg in the second T20I of the 2019 Continental Cup in Romania in August 2019.[21] The lowest match aggregate in T20I history for Australia is 149 scored during the only T20I of India's tour of Australia in February 2008.[22]
A T20I match is won when one side has scored more runs than the runs scored by the opposing side during their innings. If both sides have completed both their allocated innings and the side that fielded last has the higher aggregate of runs, it is known as a win by runs. This indicates the number of runs that they had scored more than the opposing side. If the side batting last wins the match, it is known as a win by wickets, indicating the number of wickets that were still to fall.[24]
Greatest win margins (by runs)[]
The greatest winning margin by runs in T20Is was Czech Republic's victory over Turkey by 257 runs in the sixth match of the 2019 Continental Cup.[11] The largest victory recorded by Australia was during the Australia's tour of Sri Lanka in 2016 by 134 runs.[25]
The greatest winning margin by balls remaining in T20Is was Austria's victory over Turkey by 104 balls remaining in the ninth match of the 2019 Continental Cup.[27] The largest victory recorded by Australia is during the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 against Sri Lanka when they won by 10 wickets with 58 balls remaining.[28]
A total of 22 matches have ended with chasing team winning by 10 wickets with New Zealand winning by such margins a record three times.[29] Australia have won a T20I match by this margin on two occasions.[26]
The narrowest winning margin by balls remaining in T20Is is by winning of the last ball which has been achieved 26 times. Australia has achieve victory of the last ball on two occasions.[34]
Rank
Balls remaining
Margin
Opposition
Venue
Date
1
0
5 wickets
South Africa
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa
6 March 2016
3 wickets
India
Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam, India
24 February 2019
3
1
Pakistan
Darren Sammy National Cricket Stadium, Gros Islet, Saint Lucia
The narrowest margin of victory by wickets is 1 wicket which has settled four such T20Is. The narrowest victory by wickets for Australia is two wickets.[35]
Rank
Margin
Opposition
Venue
Date
1
2 wickets
South Africa
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia
9 November 2014
2
3 wickets
Pakistan
Darren Sammy National Cricket Stadium, Gros Islet, Saint Lucia
14 May 2010
Bangladesh
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India
21 March 2016
India
Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam, India
24 February 2019
Bangladesh
Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur, Bangladesh
The largest defeat suffered by Australia was against Pakistan in UAE during the 2012 T20I Series when they lost by 7 wickets with 31 balls remaining.[28]
Rank
Balls remaining
Margin
Opposition
Venue
Date
1
31
7 wickets
Pakistan
Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai, UAE
5 September 2012
6 wickets
West Indies
Darren Sammy National Cricket Stadium, Gros Islet, Saint Lucia
A tie can occur when the scores of both teams are equal at the conclusion of play, provided that the side batting last has completed their innings.[24]
There have been 19 ties in T20Is history with Australia involved in two such game.[6]
A run is the basic means of scoring in cricket. A run is scored when the batsman hits the ball with his bat and with his partner runs the length of 22 yards (20 m) of the pitch.[38]
India's Virat Kohli has scored the most runs in T20Is with 2,794. Second is Rohit Sharma of India with 2,773 ahead of Martin Guptill from New Zealand in third with 2,536. David Warner is the leading Australian batsmen on this list.[39]
A half-century is a score of between 50 and 99 runs. Statistically, once a batsman's score reaches 100, it is no longer considered a half-century but a century.
Virat Kohli of India has scored the most half-centuries in T20Is with 24. He is followed by India's Rohit Sharma on 21, Ireland's Paul Stirling on 18 and Australia's David Warner on 17.[65]
Ravija Sandaruwan of Kuwait holds the record for highest strike rate, with minimum 250 balls faced qualification, with 165.80.[71] Maxwell is the Australian with the highest strike rate.
Qualification= 250 balls faced. Last Updated: 9 July 2021[72]
Highest strike rates in an inning[]
Dwayne Smith of West Indies strike rate of 414.28 during his 29 off 7 balls against Bangladesh during 2007 ICC World Twenty20 is the world record for highest strike rate in an innings. Aaron Finch with his innings of 36* off 14 balls against New Zealand in February 2018 during the 2017-18 Trans-Tasman Tri-Series holds the top position for an Australia player in this list.[73]
Mohammad Rizwan of Pakistan holds the record for most runs scored in a calendar year with 752 runs scored in 2021. Aaron Finch scored 531 runs in 2018, the most for an Australian batsmen in a year.[75]
The 2014 ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh saw Virat Kohli set the record for the most runs scored in a single series scoring 319 runs. He is followed by Tillakaratne Dilshan with 317 runs scored in the 2009 ICC World Twenty20. Aaron Finch has scored the most runs in a series for an Australia batsmen, when he scored 306 runs in the 2018 Zimbabwe Tri-Nation Series.[77]
A duck refers to a batsman being dismissed without scoring a run.[79]Tillakaratne Dilshan of Sri Lanka, Pakistan's Umar Akmal and Ireland's Kevin O'Brien has scored the equal highest number of ducks in T20Is with 10 such knocks. David Warner with 5 ducks has the highest number of such knocks for Australia.[80]
A bowler takes the wicket of a batsman when the form of dismissal is bowled, caught, leg before wicket, stumped or hit wicket. If the batsman is dismissed by run out, obstructing the field, handling the ball, hitting the ball twice or timed out the bowler does not receive credit.
Lasith Malinga is the highest wicket-taker in T20Is. Adam Zampa is the highest ranked Aussie bowler on the all-time.[82]
Bowling figures refers to the number of the wickets a bowler has taken and the number of runs conceded.[84]
India's Deepak Chahar holds the world record for best figures in an innings when he took 6/7 against Bangladesh in November 2019 at Nagpur. Ashton Agar holds the Australian record for best bowling figures.[85]
A bowler's bowling average is the total number of runs they have conceded divided by the number of wickets they have taken.
Afghanistan's Rashid Khan holds the record for the best career average in T20Is with 12.62. Ajantha Mendis, Sri Lankan cricketer, is second behind Rashid with an overall career average of 14.42 runs per wicket. Mitchell Starc with an average of 18.65 is the highest ranked Aussie bowler.[87]
Rank
Average
Player
Wickets
Runs
Balls
Period
1
19.00
James Faulkner
36
684
515
2012-2017
2
20.62
Pat Cummins
37
763
660
2011-2020
3
20.97
Mitchell Johnson
38
807
656
2007-2013
4
21.21
Andrew Tye
47
997
785
2016-2021
5
21.69
Ashton Agar
42
911
810
2016-2021
Qualification: 500 balls. Last Updated: 9 August 2021[88]
Best career economy rate[]
A bowler's economy rate is the total number of runs they have conceded divided by the number of overs they have bowled.[79]
New Zealand's Daniel Vettori, holds the T20I record for the best career economy rate with 5.70. Adam Zampa, with a rate of 6.51 runs per over conceded over his 37-match T20I career, is the highest Australian on the list.[89]
Qualification: 500 balls. Last Updated: 9 August 2021[90]
Best career strike rate[]
A bowler's strike rate is the total number of balls they have bowled divided by the number of wickets they have taken.[79]
The top bowler with the best T20I career strike rate is Rashid Khan of Afghanistan with strike rate of 12.3 balls per wicket. James Faulkner is the Aussie bowler with the lowest strike rate.[91]
Rank
Strike rate
Player
Wickets
Runs
Balls
Period
1
14.3
James Faulkner
36
684
515
2012-2017
2
14.5
Andrew Tye
47
997
785
2016-2021
3
17.1
Nathan Coulter-Nile
34
802
582
2013-2019
4
17.2
Mitchell Johnson
38
797
656
2007-2013
5
17.8
Pat Cummins
37
763
660
2011-2020
Qualification: 500 balls. Last Updated: 9 August 2021[92]
Most four-wickets (& over) hauls in an innings[]
Pakistan's Umar Gul has taken the most four-wickets (or over) among all the bowlers. 11 Aussies bowlers have taken at-least one such haul.[93]
The best economy rate in an inning, when a minimum of 12 balls are delivered by the bowler, is Sri Lankan player Nuwan Kulasekara economy of 0.00 during his spell of 0 runs for 1 wicket in 2 overs against Netherlands at Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in the 2014 ICC World Twenty20. David Hussey holds the Australian record during his spell in India's tour of Australia in 2012 at Sydney, Australia and by Billy Stanlake against Pakistan during the 2018 Zimbabwe Tri-Nation Series.[95]
Qualification: 12 balls bowled. Last Updated: 7 March 2021[96]
Best strike rates in an inning[]
The best strike rate in an inning, when a minimum of 4 wickets are taken by the player, is by Steve Tikolo of Kenya during his spell of 4/2 in 1.2 overs against Scotland during the 2013 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier at ICC Academy, Dubai, UAE. Both Faulkner and Agar during their spells when they took five-wickets in an inning also recorded the best strike rate for an Aussie bowler.[97]
The worst figures in a T20I came in the Sri Lanka's tour of Australia when Kasun Rajitha of Sri Lanka had figures of 0/75 off his four overs at Adelaide Oval, Adelaide.[99][100] The worst figures by an Australian is 0/59 that came off the bowling of Kane Richardson in the 2018 tour of England at Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham, England.[101]
Kasun Rajitha also holds the dubious distinction of most runs conceded in a T20I during the aforementioned match. Andrew Tye with figures of 2/64 off his four overs against New Zealand in February 2018 holds the most runs conceded distinction for Australia.[102]
2019 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier at UAE saw records set for the most wickets taken by a bowler in a T20I series when Oman's pacerBilal Khan tool 18 wickets during the series. Dirk Nannes in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 took 14 wickets, the most for an Aussie bowler in a series.[106]
In cricket, a hat-trick occurs when a bowler takes three wickets with consecutive deliveries. The deliveries may be interrupted by an over bowled by another bowler from the other end of the pitch or the other team's innings, but must be three consecutive deliveries by the individual bowler in the same match. Only wickets attributed to the bowler count towards a hat-trick; run outs do not count.
In T20Is history there have been just 13 hat-tricks, the first achieved by Brett Lee for Australia against Bangladesh in 2007 ICC World Twenty20.[108]
The wicket-keeper is a specialist fielder who stands behind the stumps being guarded by the batsman on strike and is the only member of the fielding side allowed to wear gloves and leg pads.[112]
Most career dismissals[]
A wicket-keeper can be credited with the dismissal of a batsman in two ways, caught or stumped. A fair catch is taken when the ball is caught fully within the field of play without it bouncing after the ball has touched the striker's bat or glove holding the bat,[113][114] Laws 5.6.2.2 and 5.6.2.3 state that the hand or the glove holding the bat shall be regarded as the ball striking or touching the bat while a stumping occurs when the wicket-keeper puts down the wicket while the batsman is out of his ground and not attempting a run.[115]Brad Haddin and Alex Carey is the highest ranked Aussie wicket keeper in the all-time list of taking most dismissals in T20Is as a designated wicket-keeper, which is headed by India's MS Dhoni and West Indian Denesh Ramdin.[116]
Carey has made the most stumpings in T20Is as a designated wicket-keeper among Aussies with Dhoni and Kamran Akmal of Pakistan heading this all-time list.[120]
Four wicket-keepers on four occasions have taken five dismissals in a single innings in a T20I.[122]
The feat of taking 4 dismissals in an innings has been achieved by 19 wicket-keepers on 26 occasions with Gilchrist being the only Australian wicket-keeper.[123]
Netherlands wicket-keeper Scott Edwards holds the T20Is record for the most dismissals taken by a wicket-keeper in a series. He made 13 dismissals during the 2019 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier. Australian record is held by Gilchrist when he made 9 dimissials during the 2007 ICC World Twenty20.[125]
Caught is one of the nine methods a batsman can be dismissed in cricket.[a] The majority of catches are caught in the slips, located behind the batsman, next to the wicket-keeper, on the off side of the field. Most slip fielders are top order batsmen.[128][129]
South Africa's David Miller holds the record for the most catches in T20Is by a non-wicket-keeper with 57, followed by Shoaib Malik of Pakistan on 50 and New Zealand's Martin Guptill with 47. David Warner is the leading catcher for Australia.[130]
The feat of taking 4 catches in an innings has been achieved by 14 fielders on 14 occasions.[132] No Australian fielder has achieved this feat. The most is three catches on nine occasions.[133]
The 2019 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Qualifier, which saw Netherlands retain their title,[135] saw the record set for the most catches taken by a non-wicket-keeper in a T20I series. Jersey'sBen Stevens and Namibia'sJJ Smit took 10 catches in the series. David Warner and Michael Hussey with 8 catches in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 are the leading Aussie fielder on this list.[136]
Pakistan's Shoaib Malik holds the record for the most T20I matches played with 113, followed by Rohit Sharma of India with 108 and Ross Taylor of New Zealand with 100 games. David Warner is the most experienced Aussie player having represented the team on 79 occasions.[138]
Afghanistan's Mohammad Shahzad and Asghar Afghan hold the record for the most consecutive T20I matches played with 58. David Warner holds the Aussie record.[140]
MS Dhoni, who led the Indian cricket team from 2007 to 2016, holds the record for the most matches played as captain in T20Is with 72. Aaron Finch has led Australia in most matches for any player from his country.[141]
The youngest player to play in a T20I match is Marian Gherasim at the age of 14 years and 16 days. Making his debut for Romania against the Bulgaria on 16 October 2020 in the first T20I of the 2020 Balkan Cup[143] thus becoming the youngest to play in a men's T20I match.[144][145][146]
In cricket, two batsmen are always present at the crease batting together in a partnership. This partnership will continue until one of them is dismissed, retires or the innings comes to a close.
Highest partnerships by wicket[]
A wicket partnership describes the number of runs scored before each wicket falls. The first wicket partnership is between the opening batsmen and continues until the first wicket falls. The second wicket partnership then commences between the not out batsman and the number three batsman. This partnership continues until the second wicket falls. The third wicket partnership then commences between the not out batsman and the new batsman. This continues down to the tenth wicket partnership. When the tenth wicket has fallen, there is no batsman left to partner so the innings is closed.
The highest T20I partnership by runs for any wicket is held by the Afghan pairing of Hazratullah Zazai and Usman Ghani who put together an opening wicket partnership of 236 runs during the Ireland v Afghanistan series in India in 2019[154]
An umpire in cricket is a person who officiates the match according to the Laws of Cricket. Two umpires adjudicate the match on the field, whilst a third umpire has access to video replays, and a fourth umpire looks after the match balls and other duties. The records below are only for on-field umpires.
Ahsan Raza of Pakistan holds the record for the most T20I matches umpired with 49. The most experienced Australian umpire is Rod Tucker with 35 matches officiated so far.[156]
^In 2017, The Laws of Cricket were amended, reducing the methods of dismissals from ten to nine, with handled the ball now covered as part of obstructing the field.[127]
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England
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Ireland
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