Most maiden overs in T20 World Cup 2024: The group stage of the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 was, undoubtedly, dominated by the bowlers. The ball had more assertiveness over the bat than was expected at the start of the tournament.
This is because the pitches in New York and a few venues in the West Indies favored the bowlers. The surface in New York was shocking, to say the least, as fast bowlers enjoyed exaggerated seam movement and inconsistent bounce, with the fans and experts, at times, saying that the pitch was bordering on being dangerous. In a few grounds in the West Indies, the spinners got plenty of turn, and the pacers, who have a coterie of variations, thrived as the ball held into the surface.
The run rate of 6.71 across 37 completed matches in the group stage is the lowest at any men’s T20 World Cup. A wicket fell at an average of 17.8 runs, which is also the lowest in T20 World Cup history.
This meant that some bowlers bowled maiden overs; a few bowled a maiden over multiple times.
Most maiden overs in T20 World Cup 2024:
Lockie Ferguson – 4 maiden overs
New Zealand fast bowler Lockie Ferguson created history when he bowled four maiden overs against Papua New Guinea in Tarouba in New Zealand’s last group stage match. He returned with unbelievable figures of 4-4-0-3.
Ferguson is the second bowler to bowl four maidens in a men’s T20I after Canada’s Saad Bin Zafar did it in 2021 against Panama. But Ferguson is the first one to do so in men’s T20 World Cup history; before Ferguson, no bowler had bowled more than two maidens in a men’s T20 World Cup match, and the Kiwi speedster bowled all four of his overs maidens. It goes without saying that this is the most economical spell in T20 World Cup history. And it is an unbreakable record.
Four bowlers bowled two maidens each
New Zealand fast bowler Trent Boult, Uganda off-spinner Frank Nsubuga, India’s pace-bowling all-rounder Hardik Pandya, and Bangladeshi seamer Tanzim Hasan Sakib—all four have bowled two maidens each so far in the tournament.
Boult and Nsubuga’s teams are out of the competition, while Pandya and Sakib will feature in the Super 8 round, so they have chances to match and go past Ferguson’s tally of four maiden overs in the T20 World Cup 2024.
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