Asia Cup Records

Highest Individual Scores in Asia Cup (ODI & T20I) History

Highest Individual Scores in ODI Asia Cup

PlayerRuns (Balls)4s/6sOppositionGroundDate
Virat Kohli (IND)183 (148)22/1PakistanMirpur18 Mar 2012
Babar Azam (PAK)151 (131)14/4NepalMultan30 Aug 2023
Younis Khan (PAK)144 (122)8/3Hong KongColombo18 Jul 2004
Mushfiqur Rahim (BAN)144 (150)11/4Sri LankaDubai15 Sep 2018
Shoaib Malik (PAK)143 (127)18/1IndiaColombo25 Jul 2004
Virat Kohli (IND)136 (122)16/2BangladeshFatullah26 Feb 2014
Sourav Ganguly (IND)135* (124)6/7BangladeshDhaka30 May 2000
Arjun Ranatunga (SL)131* (152)17/0IndiaColombo18 Jul 1997
Sanath Jayasuriya (SL)130 (132)14/1IndiaColombo27 Jul 2004
Sanath Jayasuriya (SL)130 (88)16/6BangladeshKarachi30 Jun 2008

Highest Individual Scores in T20 Asia Cup

PlayerRuns (Balls)4s/6sAgainstVenueDate
Virat Kohli (IND)122* (61)12/6AfghanistanDubai (DICS)8 Sep 2022
Babar Hayat (HKG)122 (60)9/7OmanFatullah19 Feb 2016
Pathum Nissanka (SL)107 (58)7/6IndiaDubai (DICS)26 Sep 2025
Rahmanullah Gurbaz (AFG)84 (45)4/6Sri LankaSharjah3 Sep 2022
Rohit Sharma (IND)83 (55)7/3BangladeshMirpur24 Feb 2016
Sabbir Rahman (BAN)80 (54)10/3Sri LankaMirpur28 Feb 2016
Mohammad Rizwan (PAK)78* (57)6/1Hong KongSharjah2 Sep 2022
Rohan Mustafa (UAE)77 (50)7/4AfghanistanFatullah19 Feb 2016
Tillakaratne Dilshan (SL)75* (56)10/1PakistanMirpur4 Mar 2016
Abhishek Sharma (IND)75 (37)6/5BangladeshDubai (DICS)24 Sep 2025

Key Insights

Virat Kohli has recorded the highest individual score in the ODI and T20 Asia Cups. He aggregated 183 in 148 deliveries against Pakistan in the 2012 ODI tournament. (Check Kohli’s ODI hundreds here.) 

Ten years later, Kohli logged the same record in the T20 competition, scoring 122 not out against Afghanistan. He shares the record with Hong Kong’s Babar Hayat, who amassed 122 against Oman in 2016.

Babar Azam’s 151 against Nepal in 2023 is the highest individual score by a captain in the ODI Asia Cup.

Mushfiqur Rahim’s 144 against Sri Lanka in 2018 is the highest individual score by a wicketkeeper in the 50-over tournament.

Sanath Jayasuriya smashed six hundreds in 24 innings, the most by a batter in the ODI Asia Cup.

Shahid Afridi has smashed the fastest century in the ODI Asia Cup. He took 53 balls to bring up his ton against Bangladesh in 2010. This is also the quickest hundred by a captain in the ODI tournament.

Afridi struck at 206.66 in his 124-run knock, which is the highest strike rate by a centurion in an innings in the ODI Asia Cup.

Rohit Sharma’s 72 against Sri Lanka in 2022 is the highest individual score by a captain in the T20 Asia Cup.

Rahmanullah Gurbaz’s 84 against the same opposition in the same edition is the highest individual score by a wicketkeeper in the T20 tournament.

Gurbaz raced to his fifty off 22 balls, which is the joint-quickest by a batter in the T20 Asia Cup. Suryakumar Yadav is the other batter to score his half-century in 22 deliveries against Hong Kong (68*) in the same edition.

Yadav recorded a strike rate of 261.53, which is the highest by a batter in an innings in the T20 Asia Cup (minimum of 50 runs).

Hayat’s hundred against Oman came off 49 balls, the fastest by a batter in the T20 Asia Cup.

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