If anyone speaks about T20I cricket, the scenario of batters racing away to score big knocks pops up in mind. And it’s not wrong either.
Batters like Chris Gayle have shown how to build huge scores with fewer balls. The fact that the Universe Boss scored a 47-ball hundred in the T20 World Cup testifies to it.
However, there have been instances where batters have consumed more balls than Gayle’s 47 to bring up their fifties.
Here, we’ll look at the top 10 slowest fifties scored by batters in the T20 World Cup.
Slowest Fifties in T20 World Cup
Player | Balls Taken to 50 | Final Score | Against | Venue | Date |
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Mohammad Rizwan (PAK) | 52 | 53* (53) | Canada | New York | 11 Jun 2024 |
David Miller (SA) | 50 | 59* (51) | Netherlands | New York | 8 Jun 2024 |
Devon Smith (WI) | 49 | 51 (52) | Bangladesh | Johannesburg | 13 Sep 2007 |
David Hussey (AUS) | 49 | 59 (54) | England | Bridgetown | 16 May 2010 |
Suryakumar Yadav (IND) | 49 | 50* (49) | U.S.A. | New York | 12 Jun 2024 |
Craig Ervine (ZIM) | 48 | 58 (54) | Scotland | Hobart | 21 Oct 2022 |
Subash Khakurel (NEP) | 48 | 56 (53) | Afghanistan | Chattogram | 20 Mar 2014 |
Gerhard Erasmus (NAM) | 48 | 53* (49) | Ireland | Sharjah | 22 Oct 2021 |
Noor Ali Zadran (AFG) | 47 | 50 (48) | India | Gros Islet | 1 May 2010 |
Asghar Afghan (AFG) | 47 | 55* (50) | Scotland | Nagpur | 8 Mar 2016 |
Key Insights
Mohammad Rizwan holds the unwanted record for scoring the slowest fifty in the T20 World Cup. The Pakistani batter took 52 balls to reach his half-century against Canada in 2024.
A few days before Rizwan’s knock, David Miller became the first batter to consume 50 balls to bring up a half-century in the T20 World Cup.
In contrast, Yuvraj Singh has scored the fastest half-century in the competition, taking just 12 balls against England in 2007.
The West Indies’ Marlon Samuels and England’s Ben Stokes have scored the joint slowest fifties in a T20 World Cup final. Both batters took 47 balls to raise their half-centuries against England and Pakistan in the 2016 and 2022 finals, respectively. Coincidentally, Samuels and Stokes helped their teams lift their second trophy in those editions.
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