T20 World Cup 2024: Big-hitting Aaron makes headlines for USA in opening match

Big-hitting Aaron

94 The number of runs registered by USA’s Aaron Jones against Canada in the opening match of the ninth edition of the T20 World Cup in Dallas. This is now the second highest by a batter playing his first T20WC match. West Indian Chris Gayle still holds the record of 117 runs in the 2007 T20WC. Gayle’s knock at the Wanderers on 11 September 2007 was incidentally the inaugural game of T20WC. Meanwhile, Aaron Jones’ score is now the highest in a T20WC match by a batter from an ICC associate member nation.

Highest individual scores on T20 World Cup debut

Note: Gayle and Jayasuriya’s efforts came in the match’s first innings. Jones made his runs batting at #4, while the rest came when opening the batting.

Highest individual scores in T20 World Cup by players from ICC associate nations

10 The number of sixes hit by USA’s Aaron Jones during his match-winning knock of 94 against Canada in Dallas. This is now the joint-second most hit by a player in a T20WC match, a feat that only the legendary West Indian Chris Gayle has surpassed. This is a significant milestone for the U.S. team, as no U.S. batter has hit more than five sixes in a T20 match before this. Meanwhile, Jones bettered Netherlands’ Stephan Myburgh’s seven sixes against Ireland in Sylhet on 21 March 2014, the previous record for the maximum sixes hit by an associate batter in a T20WC match. 

Most sixes by a batter in a T20WC match

Note: Eight others have hit seven sixes in a match

238 The batting strike-rate during the match-winning third wicket partnership of 131 runs in 55 balls between USA’s Andries Gous and Aaron Jones against Canada in Dallas on 1 June 2024. This is the quickest 100-plus stand for any wicket in the history of T20WC since September 2007.

Fastest 100-plus partnerships for any wicket in T20WC

+ SR is runs scored off 100 balls

4 The number of runs conceded by Uganda’s 43-year-old off-spinner Franco Nsubuga against PNG in Providence, Guyana, on 5 June 2024. This is the fewest conceded by any bowler in a T20WC match. Nine days later, on 14 June, 35-year-old New Zealander Tim Southee equalled the record against Nsubuga’s team Uganda in Tarouba in Trinidad and Tobago. Meanwhile, on 12 June 2024, Arshdeep Singh etched his name in the annals of Indian cricket history. In the match against the USA in New York, he became the first Indian bowler to concede less than 10 runs in a T20WC match. This achievement not only sets him apart but also places him in the esteemed company of Bhuvneshwar Kumar, R. Ashwin, and Ravindra Jadeja, who have also achieved this feat for India in a T20 international match. 

Bowlers conceding less than 10 runs in a T20WC match in their full quota of four overs

Note:For the first time in a T20WC match, two bowlers from the same team conceded less than 10 runs in their full quota of four overs.