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3 min readMar 8, 2026 03:24 PM Highest individual scores in  T20 World Cup final:  all means, a high-scoring World Cup final is simmering at the Narendra Modi Stadium as India and New Zealand lock horns in the summit clash in Ahmedabad.
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With a belter of a pitch on offer, both India and New Zealand may need to produce their belligerent bests, smashing previous bests on their way to lift the crown tonight. Except that tall scores have not been frequented as much in the nine previous finals of the T20 World Cup, neither individually nor a team.
To date, the highest-ever team score in a World Cup final is the 176-run total India managed in the last World Cup in Barbados, edging out South Africa seven runs. A 170-plus total has only been twice before that in a final, during the 2021 edition, when Australia gunned down a 172-run total posted the Kiwis.
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Highest individual scores in T20 World Cup finals
No batter has ever recorded a hundred in a T20 World Cup final, as yet. The highest individual score in a World Cup final is shared former West Indies batter Marlon Samuels and former New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson. Samuels played a match-winning unbeaten 85 during the 2016 final against England at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata, four years after having powered the Windies to their first title with a 56-ball 78 in the 2012 final against Sri Lanka. Williamson’s 48-ball 85, however, went in vain as Australia romped home eight wickets on the back of Mitchell Marsh’s 77 not out in 2021.

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Interestingly, only two Indians have recorded half-centuries in a T20 World Cup final. Current India head coach Gautam Gambhir had etched a match-winning 75 in the inaugural final against Pakan.

Player
Runs
SR
Opposition
Ground
Date

Marlon Samuels (WI)
85*
128.78
v England
Eden Gardens
3 Apr 2016

KS Williamson (NZ)
85
177.08
v Australia
Dubai (DICS)
14 Nov 2021

Marlon Samuels (WI)
78
139.28
v Sri Lanka
Colombo (RPS)
7 Oct 2012

MR Marsh (AUS)
77*
154
v New Zealand
Dubai (DICS)
14 Nov 2021

Virat Kohli (IND)
77
132.75
v Sri Lanka
Mirpur
6 Apr 2014

Virat Kohli (IND)
76
128.81
v South Africa
Bridgetown
29 Jun 2024

Gautam Gambhir (IND)
75
138.88
v Pakan
Johannesburg
24 Sep 2007

Kumar Sangakkara (SL)
64*
123.07
v Pakan
Lord’s
21 Jun 2009

Craig Kieswetter (ENG)
63
128.57
v Australia
Bridgetown
16 May 2010

Virat Kohli bettered Gambhir with his 77 in the 2014 final that India lost to Sri Lanka. 10 years later in 2024, Kohli redeemed himself with a Player of the Match performance in Barbados, leading India to an eventual seven-run victory with his 76 off 59 deliveries against South Africa.