Reaching the 3-figures milestone is a very big deal for any cricketer, regardless of what the format is. But it’s most special in the T20 format because players have fewer deliveries and the pressure of being able to score fast in this format. That’s why you don’t see many centuries being scored in the T20 format, and more so in big global events like the ICC T20 World Cup.
This tournament began back in 2007 and since then, a handful of players have managed to get to a magical T20I century in the World Cup. Some of these players also feature in the list of most runs in the T20 WC history, while others don’t. We’ve put down a complete T20 World Cup centuries list which you can keep reading to know more…
At the start of the 2022 T20 World Cup Super 12s stage, we clocked in as many as 9 individual centuries in this tournament’s history (updated 22nd October 2022), with a total of 8 unique centurions and the only one yet to score a second individual century in this competition being the Universe Boss Chris Gayle. Two other current players have a T20 WC century (Alex Hales + Jos Buttler).
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The first ever century in the history of the T20 World Cup came from the bat of Gayle itself, hitting a century in a high scoring game in the inaugural edition of this tournament, back at the 2007 T20 World Cup in South Africa. He scored it against the host nation at Johannesburg and while he is the first to get a century and first to two T20 WC centuries, he’s also the only one to have scored a ton in vain here.
List of all T20 Word Cup centuries scored
Sr. | Name | Match | Date | Score |
1 | Chris Gayle | West Indies vs South Africa | 11 Sep 2007 | 117(57) |
2 | Suresh Raina | India vs South Africa | 2 May 2010 | 101(60) |
3 | Mahela Jayawardene | Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe | 3 May 2010 | 100(64) |
4 | Brendon McCullum | New Zealand vs Bangladesh | 21 Sep 2012 | 123(58) |
5 | Alex Hales | England vs Sri Lanka | 27 March 2014 | 116(64)* |
6 | Ahmed Shehzad | Pakistan vs Bangladesh | 30 March 2014 | 111(62)* |
7 | Tamim Iqbal | Bangladesh vs Oman | 13 Mar 2016 | 103(63)* |
8 | Chris Gayle (2) | West Indies vs England | 16 Mar 2016 | 100(48)* |
9 | Jos Buttler | England vs Sri Lanka | 1 Nov 2021 | 101(67)* |
10 | Rilee Rossouw | South Africa vs Bangladesh | 27 Oct 2022 | 109(56) |
11 | Glenn Phillips | New Zealand vs Sri Lanka | 29 Oct 2022 | 104(64) |
Gayle’s second T20 World Cup century which came in 2016 was the fastest of the lot on this list, getting there in just 48 balls, while the highest T20 World Cup individual score is that of New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum who smashed 123(58) against Bangladesh in the 2012 T20 World Cup, at Kandy. West Indies and England are the only two nations to have multiple entries in the T20 World Cup centuries list.
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As the editions kept taking place, the ICC expanded the T20 World Cup format to having 16 teams instead of only 12 which means a lot of qualifier games and as time goes by, we’ll see more batsmen writing their names in this T20 World Cup centuries list because we expect more games against non Test-playing nations, the way Tamim Iqbal hit a century against Oman in the 2016 T20 World Cup, at Dharamshala.
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