Stats: India go where no side has gone before

Stats highlights from the final in Ahmedabad.

3 India became the first side to win the T20 World Cup thrice having won it previously in 2007 and 2024. West Indies (2012 & 2016) and England (2010 & 2022) have won it twice each while Pakistan (2009), Sri Lanka (2014), and Australia (2021) have won it once each. They are the first side to successfully defend the T20 World Cup title and the first to win the championship at home.

255/5 by India is the highest ever total in a T20 International final. Only once has a team posted a higher total in the finals of a T20 tournament - Jharkhand's 262/3 against Haryana in Pune in the Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy 2025/26. The winning margin of 96 runs is the fourth highest in a T20I finals and the highest ever by a Full Member side.

92/0 by India is the joint highest Powerplay total in T20 World Cups, alongside West Indies' 92/1 against Afghanistan in Gros Islet in 2024. The previous highest in a knockout game in the competition was 84/0 by New Zealand against South Africa at Eden Gardens in the semifinals this edition. It is the third highest Powerplay total for India in all T20 Internationals.

India's top three go big

18 balls taken by Abhishek Sharma makes it the fastest in the knockouts of T20 World Cups, surpassing 19 ball efforts by Finn Allen and Jacob Bethell in the semifinals of this edition. This was the fourth time he reached 50 inside 20 balls - the most by a batter in T20Is, surpassing three each by Finn Allen, David Warner, Phil Salt, Coiln Munro and Yuvraj Singh.

3 Sanju Samson in his last three T20Is - 97*, 89, and 89. He became only the second batter to register three consecutive 85+ scores in T20Is after France's Gustav McKeon who made scores of 76, 109, 101, and 87 across his first four appearances in the format.

7 Samson became the seventh batter to score 50+ in three or more successive innings in T20 World Cups and the third Indian to do so after Virat Kohli (2016-21) and KL Rahul (2021). He became only the third batter to hit 50+ scores in both the semifinal and final of the competition after Shahid Afridi in 2009 and Virat Kohli in 2014.

24 sixes by Samson is the most by a batter in a single edition of a T20 World Cup. Across the first nine iterations of the tournament, the highest was Nicholas Pooran's 17 in 2024 which is now sitting in the joint fifth position. Among batters from Full Member nations, only Finn Allen has scored more in a series - 25 against Pakistan in five T20Is at home in 2024 while Sikandar Raza also hit 24 sixes in the African Regional Qualifiers in 2024.

Most sixes in an edition of T20 WC

1 Samson (89), Abhishek (52), and Ishan Kishan (54) became the first instance of top three hitting 50+ scores in a T20 World Cup innings. Overall, this is the fifth instance of three 50+ scores in an innings and the first time in a knockout.

India smash batting records

106 India became the first team to hit 100+ sixes in a T20 competition, smashing 106 maximums across nine games. They hit 69 in the five games against New Zealand in the bilateral series that preceded this series making it 87 sixes in six games against the opposition in 2026 - the second most by a team against an opposition in a calendar year behind Cambodia's 111 against Indonesia in 2025 (in 17 T20Is).

7 Overs in which 20+ runs were scored in this final - six by India and one by New Zealand. Across the nine previous T20 World Cup finals, there were only seven such instances. India managed to hit 24 runs each off three overs - the 4th and 12th over by Lockie Ferguson and the 20th over by James Neesham - the joint most expensive over in a T20 World Cup final. Ben Stokes in 2016 and Axar Patel in 2024 both also conceded as many.

Bumrah on top of the world

40 wickets by Jasprit Bumrah is the most by a fast bowler in T20 World Cups surpassing Lasith Malinga's 38. His figures of 4/15 is the second-best figures in the finals, only behind Ajantha Mendis' 4/12 against West Indies in Colombo RPS in 2012.

Best figures in T20 WC finals

4 Jasprit Bumrah became the fourth player after Shahid Afridi (2007 & 2009), Sam Curran (both in 2022), and Virat Kohli (2014, 2016, and 2024) to bag the double of Player of the Match in a final and Player of the Tournament. He was Player of the Tournament in the 2024 edition in the Caribbean and USA.