ICC Men's T20 World Cup Stats : Most Runs and Most Wickets in each edition (2007-2021)

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup is all set to return with its 8th season. The tournament will commence on 15th October 2022 in Australia. The inaugural season of the T20 World Cup was held in the year 2007. The tournament was new and teams were adapting to this format. Fans were thrilled to see a change in the international scene. The first edition of the tournament had it all, from one-side games to last ball enthralling encounters. The 2007 World Cup was a hit, and India won the first edition. Hence, ICC decided to hold the tournament every two years. Up until the year 2022, 7 editions of the T20 World Cup took place. Every time, a new hero emerged either with the bat or with the ball.

Most Runs in T20 World Cup

T20 format is considered to be a game of the batters. The shorter format provides freedom for the batters to attack from ball one. Hence, a mammoth amount of runs have been scored in this format. In the T20 World Cup history, India stalwart, Virat Kohli, holds the record of scoring the highest amount of runs in a single edition. In the 5th edition of the tournament, Kohli scored a total of 319 runs with 4 crucial half-centuries. He anchored the team to the finals, but India eventually lost to Sri Lanka.
Over the years, many batters have stood out in each season of the T20 World Cup.

Let’s have a look at the complete list of the most runs scored in each edition of the T20 World Cup.

Edition	Player	Team	Runs scored	High Score	50/100
2007	Matthew Hayden	Australia	265	73	4/0
2009	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka	317	96	3/0
2010	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	302	100	2/1
2012	Shane Watson	Australia	249	72	3/0
2014	Virat Kohli	India	319	77	4/0
2016	Tamim Iqbal	Bangladesh	295	103	1/1
2021	Babar Azam	Pakistan	303	70	4/0

Most Wickets in T20 World Cup

Bowlers have a hard time in this short format as the margin of error is too less for them. The boundary length is short most of the time. However, there have been some exceptional performances from some exceptional bowlers across these 7 editions. The Sri Lankan spinner, Ajantha Mendis, is the highest wicket-taker in the tally with 15 wickets under his name in the 4th edition. He registered his best career figures by clipping 6 wickets and giving away just 8 runs. Let’s look at the entire tally of the most wickets taken in each edition of the T20 World Cup..

Edition	Player	Team	Wickets	Economy	Best Figures
2007	Umar Gul	Pakistan	13	5.60	4/25
2009	Umar Gul	Pakistan	13	6.44	5/6
2010	Dirk Nannes	Australia	14	7.03	4/18
2012	Ajantha Mendis	Sri Lanka	15	6.12	6/8
2014	Imran Tahir Ahsan Malik	South Africa Netherlands	12 12	6.55 6.68	4/21 5/19
2016	Mohammad Nabi	Afghanistan	12	6.07	4/20
2021	Wanindu Hasaranga	Sri Lanka	16	5.20	3/9