T20 World Cup 2024: From best bowling average to most boundaries, a look at records broken
The Hindu
2024 T20 World Cup: India wins, records broken, Jasprit Bumrah shines, Lockie Ferguson's maiden overs, Nicholas Pooran's sixes, and more.
The first T20 World Cup featuring 20 Teams will go down in history for several reasons. The tournament ended with Team India ending their ICC trophy drought, securing a seven-run win over first-time finalists South Africa in an edge-of-the-seat thriller at Barbados.
With two unbeaten sides meeting in the final, it was clear that the champion would set a new record for most wins in a tournament. In fact, India and South Africa both finished with eight match wins — with India missing out on a possible victory due to one of their matches (against Canada in the group stage) being a washout.
India's 176/7 in the final, however, was the highest by any team in the final of a Men's T20 World Cup — edging past Australia's 173/2 against New Zealand in 2021.
At the age of 37 years and 60 days, Rohit Sharma became the oldest man to captain a side to T20 World Cup glory, as per ICC. It was a tournament that was great for the bowlers, and both Fazalhaq Farooqi of semifinalists Afghanistan and Arshdeep Singh of champions India took 17 wickets, the most in a single edition, one more than previous record-holder Wanindu Hasaranga of Sri Lanka.
The sensational Jasprit Bumrah of India finished with the best bowling average in an edition, with 8.3 - ahead of Anrich Nortje's figures of 8.5 in 2022. Bumrah, who also went at an economy of 4.17, was a unanimous decision for the 'Player of the Tournament' award.
And it was England's Chris Jordan who has the record for the best bowling strike rate in a tournament, with 8.3 — ahead of Fazalhaq Farooqi (8.9) and Tabraiz Shamsi (9.2) this year, as well as previous record-holder Jacques Kallis (9.4) from 2012.Jordan claimed four wickets in an unseen quadruple-wicket maiden over against the USA. Curtis Campher, who claimed four wickets in four balls against The Netherlands in 2021, conceded two in his over.
New Zealand fast bowler Lockie Ferguson also created history as the first man to bowl four maiden overs in a T20 World Cup spell. He finished with figures of 3/0 (4) against Papua New Guinea in the Kiwis' last group-stage match at the tournament.
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