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ICC 2016 World T20 in numbers: All the stats you need to know

Cricket - England v West Indies - World Twenty20 cricket tournament final
Image: A look at the numbers behind a thrilling tournament

And so there we have it, the West Indies emerged victorious in dramatic fashion, beating England in the 2016 World T20 final.

They are the first team to win the trophy twice, but what else stood out from another thrilling tournament?

Here's some of the best and more unusual stats from the World T20...

9732 - total runs scored in the tournament

421 - total wickets taken

314 - sixes hit

459 - runs scored in England's match with South Africa, way ahead of the next-highest match aggregate, the 388 managed between India and West Indies in the semi-final

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Joe Root of England hits out for six runs during the ICC World Twenty20 India 2016 Super 10s Group 1 match between South Africa and England
Image: Joe Root contributed 83 of the 459 runs scored in England's win over South Africa

19 - Against India, the West Indies became the first side to hit boundaries in as many as 19 different overs in a T20I

3 - India's total of 192-2 in the same game against the West Indies featured fifty partnerships for three successive wickets

0 - hundred partnerships in the entire competition. The highest was the 98 scored by Samiullah Shenwari and Mohammad Nabi for Afghanistan's fifth wicket against Zimbabwe

Mohammad Shahzad
Image: Mohammad Shahzad struck 12 sixes in total in the tournament, five coming against South Africa

42 - runs of Mohammad Shahzad's innings of 44 for Afghanistan against South Africa were made in boundaries - three fours and five sixes

9 - runs only conceded by Hamza Hotak for Afghanistan against West Indies, the only bowler to concede single figures from his full quota of four overs

24 - runs scored by Umar Akmal for Pakistan against New Zealand, without a single boundary

Pakistan's Umar Akmal plays a shot during the World T20 cricket tournament match between Australia and Pakistan
Image: Pakistan's Umar Akmal struggled to find his usual fluency in a boundary-less innings against New Zealand

46 - scored by Khalid Latif against Australia more than doubled the 37 he had managed over his first eight T20I innings

10 - batsmen dismissed 'bowled' in the Bangladesh versus New Zealand match - a record for any T20I

16 - runs scored by number 11s in the competition, eight of which came from Tendai Chatara for Zimbabwe against Afghanistan