Cricket Stats Today’s Update

India is the first ever team to use 10 openers in a calendar year in men’s T20Is. Virat Kohli, the tenth Indian opener of 2022, registers the highest T20I score for India.

Anesa Mushangwe becomes the first Zimbabwe women’s cricketer to be picked by a franchise T20 league. She will be playing as local player in the upcoming Women’s BBL, due to her permanant residence in Australia.

Dinesh Karthik becomes the first Indian to bowl as well as keep wickets in T20Is.

In this Test, Cheteshwar Pujara reaches 500 Test runs against Nathan Lyon. In the last twenty years of Tests, the only other batsman to score 500+ runs against a bowler was Kumar Sangakkara against Saeed Ajmal.

95 – Virat Kohli

82 – Paul Stirling

77 – Jos Buttler

73 – Kevin O’Brien

70 – David Warner

Ibrahim Zadran’s 64* is the highest T20I score by an Afghanistan batter against India. The only other fifty was by Noor Ali Zadran in 2010.

Until yesterday in T20Is All full-members except Afghanistan conceded a century All full-members except Afghanistan conceded a fifer In recent match Kohli becomes the first to score a century against Afghanistan. Bhuvneshwar becomes the first to take a fifer against Afghanistan.

Two weeks back, Romania hosted the inaugural Women’s Continental Cup (other team Malta). Now Romania will be hosting the inaugural Women’s Balkan Cup (other teams Serbia and Greece).

The 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II began on 6th February 1952 as King George VI passed away. This was also on the first day of a Test match featuring England that led to the second day of the match being suspended. It was at Chennai, that marked India’s first ever Test win.

Today is the first time Vanuatu hosted men’s T20I cricket. They are hosting the East Asia Pacific Qualifier-A.

Fiji play their first men’s T20I today in the East Asia Pacific Qualifiers. Curiously in 1965, they became the first Associate member of ICC, along with USA. However 90 teams played men’s T20Is before them.

Today, Cook Islands played their first T20I match. They chose to not participate in 2019 Pacific Games in order to focus on development of national team.

Fewest runs conceded by pacers picking a fifer in men’s T20Is (full members):

4 – Bhuvneshwar Kumar v AFG,

6 – Umar Gul v NZ, 2009

6 – Umar Gul v SA, 2013

6 – Lasith Malinga v NZ, 2019

7 – Deepak Chahar v BAN, 2019

The wait for Sachin’s 100th and the wait for Kohli’s 71st both ended in the Asia Cup.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar becomes the first Indian to take more than one five-wicket haul in T20Is. 5/24 v SA at Johannesburg, 2018 5/4 v AFG at Dubai, 2022

Most T20I hundreds for each team:

10 – INDIA

9 – New Zealand

7 – Australia

India becomes the first team to have 10 individual centuries in the format. #AsiaCup #INDvAFG

Fewest runs conceded by Indians in full quota of overs in men’s T20Is:

Bhuvneshwar Kumar v AFG

R Ashwin v SL, 2016

Bhuvneshwar Kumar v UAE, 2016

Biggest runs win by India in men’s T20Is:

143 runs – v IRE at Dublin, 2018

101 runs – v AFG at Dubai, 2022

93 runs – v SL at Cuttack, 2017

KL Rahul scored a fifty in all these matches.

Most wickets for India in a calendar year in men’s T20I:

31 – Bhuvneshwar Kumar in 2022 28 – Jasprit Bumrah in 2016

23 – R Ashwin in 2016

23 – Yuzvendra Chahal in 2017

21 – Kuldeep Yadav in 2018

Century and fifer by Indians in the same T20I match:

v ENG at Manchester, 2018

KL Rahul 101*(54)

Kuldeep Yadav 5/24 v AFG at Dubai,

today Virat Kohli 122*(61)

Bhuvneshwar Kumar 5/4

There have been 28 men’s Asia Cup T20 matches so far.

First century – Virat Kohli,

First fifer – Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Fewest runs conceded by an Indian pacer bowling all four overs (men’s T20I):

4 – Bhuvneshwar Kumar v AFG, today

8 – Bhuvneshwar Kumar v UAE, 2016

9 – Bhuvneshwar Kumar v PAK, 2012

Fewest runs conceded by Indians taking at least 4 wickets in a men’s T20I innings:

4 – Bhuvneshwar Kumar v AFG, today

7 – Deepak Chahar v BAN, 2019

8 – R Ashwin v SL, 2016

10 – Barinder Sran v ZIM, 2016

11 – R Ashwin v AUS, 2014

Only 100+ score in T20 Asia Cup:

Virat Kohli (122*) v AFG, 2022

Only 150+ score in ODI Asia Cup:

Virat Kohli (183) v PAK, 2012

Lowest total against India in men’s T20Is

At fall of 2nd wicket – Afghanistan (2/1) today

At fall of 3rd wicket – Afghanistan (9/3) today

At fall of 4th wicket – Afghanistan (9/4) today

Bhuvneshwar took all 4 wickets to fall so far.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar becomes the first Indian bowler to dismiss both the opposition openers for ducks in a T20I innings.

Hazratullah Zazai lbw b B Kumar 0

Rahmanullah Gurbaz b B Kumar 0

Most Powerplay wickets by Indians in an year (T20I):

15* – Bhuvneshwar Kumar in 2022

13 – Ashish Nehra in 2016

United Arab Emirates hosted 223 T20Is, easily the highest of any country.

Among all these matches, Virat Kohli’s 122* is the highest score on UAE soil.

India register the first 200+ total in T20 Asia Cups.

Oldest Indian to score a T20I hundred:

33y 307d – Virat Kohli

31y 299d – Suryakumar Yadav

31y 190d – Rohit Sharma

Virat Kohli now has the highest individual score for India in T20Is (121* so far).

Virat Kohli becomes the first player to score a century in the T20 Asia Cup.

KL Rahul becomes the first Indian to score a fifty on T20I captaincy debut.

Indians to hit first ball six and out second ball in T20Is:

Sanju Samson v SL, 2020

Suryakumar Yadav v AFG, today

Both of them batted at No.3 in an innings with both openers scoring fifties.

Most 50+ scores in an Asia Cup T20 tournament:

Virat Kohli in 2022

Dinesh Chandimal in 2016

Kusal Mendis in 2022

Mohammad Rizwan in 2022

Trent Boult now has the most runs by a No.11 batter in both Tests and ODIs. Most runs at No.11 in ODIs: 174 – Trent Boult

170 – Muttiah Muralitharan

165 – Courtney Walsh

162 – James Anderson

Closest defeat for Afghanistan in T20Is by wkts margin:

1 wicket – v PAK at Sharjah, 2022

4 wickets – v NETH at Dubai, 2010

4 wickets – v HK at Abu Dhabi, 2015

4 wickets – v BAN at Chattogram, 2019

4 wickets – v SL at Sharjah, 2022

Most players at least 30 years old in an international match (full members):

21 – AUS v NZ at Cairns, 2022 (today)

20 – ENG v AUS at Nottingham, 1926

20 – AUS v NZ at Cairns, 2022 (last match)

The only under-30 player in today’s match is Marnus Labuschagne.

Pakistan is the first team to win by 1 wicket in men’s T20Is more than once.

v SL at Colombo, 2015

v AFG at Sharjah, 2022

Both were won with 4 balls remaining, by hitting a six.

Biggest win margin on T20I captaincy debut (full members):

101 runs – KL Rahul(IND v AFG, 2022)

100 runs – Michael Vaughan (ENG v AUS, 2005)

Highest strike-rate against right arm spin in ODIs:

105.33 – Aaron Finch

100.54 – AB de Villiers

97.52 – Eoin Morgan

(for players with complete ball-by-ball data)

Most runs by Indians in a T20I series or tournament:

319 – Virat Kohli in T20 WC, 2014

276 – Virat Kohli in Asia Cup 2022

273 – Virat Kohli in T20 WC, 2016

231 – Virat Kohli v ENG, 2021

227 – Gautam Gambhir in T20 WC, 2007

Hayden Dickson becomes the first player to score a T20I fifty for Cook Islands.

Indians with multiple 4+ wicket hauls in the same men’s T20I series:

Yuzvendra Chahal v SL, 2017

Bhuvneshwar Kumar in Asia Cup, 2022

Fiji achieve their first T20I win, by defeating Cook Islands today in the East Asia Pacific Qualifier A.

Peni Vuniwaqa becomes the first player to score a men’s T20I fifty for Fiji. He scores 72*(39) against Cook Islands in a win with no other teammates scored more than 20.

There have now been 3 one-wicket wins in men’s T20Is of 2022 – the highest of any year.

Switzerland beat France by 1 wicket

Kuwait beat UAE by 1 wicket

Pakistan beat Afghanistan by 1 wicket

Pakistan is the first team to win by 1 wicket in men’s T20Is more than once.

v SL at Colombo, 2015

v AFG at Sharjah, 2022

Both were won with 4 balls remaining, by hitting a six.

Hasan Ali and Iftikhar Ahmed were ball watching from opposite directions. Hasan Ali takes the catch to dismiss Shanaka. Both fielders nearly avoided a collapse while both fell on the ground. Guess what happened next – both fielders were playing catch catch 😀

Most runs without a century in men’s T20Is:

2514 – Mohammad Hafeez

2458 – Eoin Morgan

2435 – Shoaib Malik

2122 – Mahmudullah Riyad

2096 – Kane Williamson

Now, all the top-7 run scorers have at least one century.

Pakistan against Sri Lanka in T20Is

before 2019 – PAK won 13, SL won 5

since 2019 – PAK won 0, SL won 4

Bhuvneshwar Kumar becomes the first player to take 10 or more wickets in a men’s T20 Asia Cup tournament.

Most Powerplay wickets in a calendar year in T20Is:

17* – Bhuvneshwar Kumar in 2022

14 – Josh Hazlewood in 2021

13 – Ashish Nehra in 2016

Lahore Qalandars are playing a 50-over series against Richelieu Eagles (Namibia team). Haven’t noticed a T20 franchise team playing a longer format before.

Highest men’s T20I score after a duck in previous innings:

122* – Virat Kohli v AFG, 2022

116* – Alex Hales v AUS, 2014

107* – Muhammad Waseem v IRE, 2021

The current season of Duleep Trophy is the first season to feature ‘North East Zone’ team.

Highest strike-rate against right arm spin in ODIs: 105.33 – Aaron Finch

100.54 – AB de Villiers

97.52 – Eoin Morgan

(for players with complete ball-by-ball data)

Biggest win margin on T20I captaincy debut (full members):

101 runs – KL Rahul(IND v AFG, 2022)

100 runs – Michael Vaughan(ENG v AUS, 2005)

Intriguing that if not for the rain after toss, it would be a different national anthem played at the start of the Test (God Save the Queen rather than God Save the King).

Most 4+ wicket hauls by Indian pacers in men’s T20Is:

5 – Bhuvneshwar Kumar

2 – Hardik Pandya

Bhuvi has 3 of them coming this year itself.

Most Player of the Match Awards in men’s Asia Cup:

6 – Virat Kohli

5 – Sanath Jayasuriya

5 – Shoaib Malik

4 – Kumar Sangakkara

4 – Shahid Afridi

Kohli won it against Pakistan (twice), Sri Lanka (twice), Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

Smriti Mandhana becomes the first Indian to score 500 runs against England in Women’s T20Is. She has brilliant numbers against England, with an average of 37.14 and strike-rate of 143.64.

Cook Islands achieve their first T20I win by defeating the table-toppers Vanuatu in the East Asia Pacific Qualifier A.

Fiji’s first 2 T20I wins

Yesterday v Cook Islands

Chased 143 target to win by 3 wickets. Peni Vuniwaqa scored 60+ runs, with no other score more than 20.

Today v Samoa

Chased 143 target to win by 3 wickets. Peni Vuniwaqa scored 60+ runs, with no other score more than 20.

Most bowlers taking a wicket in a men’s ODI match:

13 – PNG v USA at Port Moresby, 2022

12 – WI v SL at Port of Spain, 1996

12 – SL v NZ at Colombo, 2001

12 – IND v NZ at Colombo, 2001

12 – SCOT v AUS at Edinburgh, 2009

12 – IND v WI at Ahmedabad, 2022

Tied ODIs between Associate nations:

IRE v NETH at Amstelveen, 2013

OMN v UAE at Muscat, 2022

NEP v USA at Pearland, 2022

USA v PNG at Port Moresby, 2022

Happened only 4 times, and 3 of them are in this year

Rebecca Blake becomes the first player to score a century for Romania in women’s T20Is.

She scored 110(61) against Serbia in the Women’s Balkan Cup.

Elena Predescu becomes the first player to take a five-wicket haul for Romania in women’s T20Is.

In the same match where Rebecca Blake scores century, she took 5/9 against Serbia.

Smriti Mandhana becomes the first Indian to score 1000 Women’s T20I runs in away venues.

Most runs:

1018 – Smriti Mandhana

902 – Harmanpreet Kaur

869 – Mithali Raj

760 – Jemimah Rodrigues

KL Rahul is the first Indian whose captaincy debut in Tests, ODIs and T20Is are in the same year.

Romania win their first Women’s T20I match by defeating Serbia on 10 Sep,2022 (won another against Serbia on 11 Sep, 2022)

This is now the 11th Asia Cup with IND/PAK/SL as both the finalist teams, but none of them were between India and Pakistan!

Since the first final in 1986, this is the first Asia Cup Final with all players never playing an Asia Cup Final before.

Bhanuka Rajapaksa’s 71* is now the highest score by a No.4 or lower batter in a men’s T20I final.

Previous highest among full-member matches is 69* by Kumar Sangakkara in 2009 T20 World Cup. It was also for Sri Lanka against Pakistan.

Highest T20I total by a team before the first legal ball was bowled:

9/0 – Pakistan v Sri Lanka

7/0 – Kenya v Uganda, 2019

Dilshan Madudshanka began the Sri Lankan bowling innings with no-ball, wide, wide, 5 wide and wide.

Most Test wickets after the age of 30:

399 – James Anderson

398 – Rangana Herath

388 – Muttiah Muraltharan

386 – Shane Warne

343 – Anil Kumble

A fast bowler now on the top of a list filled with spinners!

Most runs by a wicketkeeper in a T20I series or tournament (full members):

281 – Mohammad Rizwan in T20 WC, 2021

281 – Mohammad Rizwan in Asia Cup, 2022

Same player, same runs and same host country.

Next month in T20 World Cup

India – Super 12

Pakistan – Super 12

Bangladesh – Super 12

Afghanistan – Super 12

Sri Lanka – need to play first round

Sri Lanka win Asia Cup ahead of 4 direct entrants!

Most T20I runs at No.6 or lower in a calendar year:

409 – Dasun Shanaka

in 2022 264 – Ravi Bopara

in 2014 260 – Mahmudullah Riyad

in 2016 255 – Mahmudullah Riyad

in 2016 255 – David Miller in 2021

Shanaka is comfortably ahead of the next highest.

Teams winning Asia Cup title after losing all matches in previous edition:

Sri Lanka in 2014

Sri Lanka in 2022

The last time a team successfully defended a target in finals of World Cup or Asia Cup in all men’s formats was in 2012.

Afghanistan beat Sri Lanka with 59 balls left, which is easily their biggest T20I win against a full-member team, (second biggest is just 32).

This is how Sri Lanka’s Asia Cup campaign began. Goes on to win 5 in a row and the trophy.

Sri Lanka are the defending champions of men’s Asia Cup and Bangladesh are the defending champions of women’s Asia Cup. Two unexpected champions.

If anyone wants to know more details like innings, average or strike-rate for the tweets I give – just reply me and I am ready to give.

If you call these as ‘Kuch Bhi’ stats just for this reason, it doesn’t make me improve any way.

Only twice a team won a men’s Asia Cup tournament after losing the first match:

Sri Lanka in 1986

Sri Lanka in 2022

The 2nd ODI Asia Cup and the 2nd T20 Asia Cup.

On 12 Sep, 2022 is the first time Zimbabwe faced UAE in women’s international cricket. They beat UAE by 47 runs at Dubai.

SIndhu Sriharsha becomes the first player to score a women’s T20I fifty for USA against a full-member team.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 11 wickets at an average of 10.45 in this Asia Cup.

His bowling average is the best among Indian players who took at least ten wickets in a men’s T20I series.

Sikandar Raza becomes the first Zimbabwe cricketer to win ICC Player of the Month.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar is the first player to take more wickets than all others in an Asia Cup tournament without making it to the final.

Rwanda makes it to their first major ICC event as it qualifies for the 2023 Women’s Under-19 World Cup.

T20I debuts in 2022 Asia Cup

Naseem Shah

Dilshan Madushanka

Matheesha Pathirana

Ebadot Hossain

Asitha Fernando

Pramod Madushan

The team with 4 debutants win the title! Interestingly, all six debutants are pacers.

6 countries will play their first major women’s ICC event in 2023 Under-19 World Cup!

Zimbabwe

USA

Indonesia

Rwanda

Scotland

UAE

Jone Wesele becomes the first player to take a four wicket haul for Fiji in men’s T20Is.

Bowls with figures of 4/31 against Vanuatu and wins Player of the Match despite a defeat.

Most wickets in Basil D’Oliveira Trophy:

89 – Stuart Broad

88 – James Anderson

79 – Morne Morkel

66 – Kagiso Rabada

50 – Dale Steyn

Both Broad and Anderson go past Morkel during this series.

For Tests played in a country Highest fourth-innings average (min: 5 inns):

81.29 – England in 2022

78.66 – Australia in 1964

72.00 – England

In 1947 Highest fourth-innings run-rate (min: 5 inns):

4.89 – England in 2022

4.12 – Australia in 2003

3.65 – England in 2005