Sky Sports Cricket's Benedict Bermange looks at the stats and stories from the T20 World Cup following Australia's eight-wicket victory over New Zealand in the final; Mitchell Starc on the winning side despite being taken for 39 runs from 12 balls by Black Caps captain Kane Williamson
Monday 15 November 2021 13:15, UK
With the T20 World Cup over - and Australia the new champions - Sky Sports Cricket statistician Benedict Bermange looks at some of the top stats, including on Jason Roy, Kane Williamson, Mitchell Starc, Mitchel Marsh and Josh Hazlewood...
Spare a thought for Jason Roy, who has now played a total of 262 games in all Twenty20 cricket for 16 different teams without picking up a trophy, the most by anyone. However, he will take solace in the fact that Ravi Bopara played 277 matches before taking home his first title - the 2017/18 Bangabandhu Premier League in Bangladesh.
The Pakistan team that faced Australia in their semi-final at Dubai was the most experienced to ever take the field in a Twenty20 international, boasting 680 caps between them. England's team who faced South Africa at Sharjah set a new record for them, with a total of 575 caps.
Only one team has ever scored more runs in the last five overs of a successful run chase in the T20 World Cup than Australia in their semi-final against Pakistan. New Zealand's effort against England comes joint-third on that list. Both chases were achieved with an over to spare!
Australia warmed up for the competition by losing five bilateral Twenty20 series in a row - 2-1 to England, 2-1 to India, 3-2 to New Zealand, 4-1 to West Indies and 4-1 to Bangladesh.
The only other world champions to have lost multiple bilateral series in the build-up to an ICC tournament victory was India, who won the 1983 World Cup having lost 3-1 to Pakistan and then 2-1 to West Indies.
Kane Williamson scored 39 runs off 12 deliveries from Mitchell Starc in the final. Only one man has scored more runs from a single bowler in a game in T20 World Cup history - Chris Gayle - and he did it twice for good measure!
Only one bowler has ever conceded more runs in any Twenty20 international than Starc (0-60 from four overs) did in the final and yet managed to finish on the winning side. That bowler was Starc's fellow Australian paceman Andrew Tye, who took 2-64 against New Zealand in 2018 during a five-wicket win in Auckland.
Mitchell Marsh is now an ICC Tournament winner. He joins his father Geoff - who won the 1987 World Cup - as the only father-son champion duo.
Josh Hazlewood now joins Yuvraj Singh as the only players to have won the Under-19 World Cup, the World Cup and the ICC T20 World Cup.
Watch New Zealand's T20 and Test tour of India on Sky Sports. The first T20 international, in Jaipur, is live on Wednesday from 1.20pm on Sky Sports Cricket and from 1.30pm on Sky Sports Main Event.
