Stats: A record-breaking night for Finn Allen

All the stats highlights from Finn Allen's record-breaking 100* against South Africa in the first semi-final of the T20 World Cup 2026 at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

33 balls taken by Finn Allen to complete his hundred made him the joint third-fastest to the milestone in Men's T20Is, and the joint-fastest by anyone from a full-member side.

The previous fastest in T20 World Cups was by Chris Gayle, off 47 balls against England in Mumbai in 2016, while Glenn Phillips held the previous record for New Zealand in all T20Is, off 46 balls against West Indies in Mount Maunganui in 2020.

The previous highest score in a T20 World Cup knockout game was Tillakaratne Dilshan's 96* against West Indies at The Oval in the 2009 semis.

3 – Allen now has the joint-most hundreds for New Zealand in T20Is, alongside Colin Munro. He also became the third New Zealand batter to register a T20 World Cup hundred, after Brendon McCullum (123 vs Bangladesh, Pallekele, 2012) and Glenn Phillips (104 vs Sri Lanka, Sydney, 2022).

18 – Allen's boundary count of 18 (10 fours and eight sixes) is the joint-highest boundary count in a T20 WC innings, alongside McCullum during his 123 in 2012. Eight sixes by Allen is the most for New Zealand in a T20 WC innings; and the most for anyone in a T20 WC knockout.

88 – Allen's 88 runs in boundaries is also the joint-most in the competition's history; Gayle (seven fours and 10 sixes) had got as many against England at Wankhede in 2016.

4 – Allen's innings featured just four dots. There have been 76 individual innings of min. 30 balls in T20 WC semis or finals. Of those, only Virat Kohli's 72 off 44 against South Africa in the 2014 semis featured fewer dots (3).

19 – Finn Allen also smashed the fastest T20 World Cup fifty for NZ – off 19 balls – bettering 22 deliveries taken by Glenn Phillips vs Canada earlier in the competition.

20 sixes struck by Allen is the most for a batter in a single T20 World Cup edition, bettering Shimron Hetmyer's 19, followed by Sahibzada Farhan's 18 from the ongoing one.

Overall, the right-hander now has 26 maximums in T20 World Cups, the most for New Zealand, surpassing 23 each by Martin Guptill, Glenn Phillips and Ross Taylor.

463 runs accumulated by the Tim Seifert-Allen pair is now a record for a single T20 World Cup edition, surpassing 446 by Ibrahim Zadran and Rahmanullah Gurbaz from 2024. The two have gone at a staggering run-rate of 10.93.

Highest partnership aggregates in a T20 WC edition

117 is the second-highest partnership in a T20 World Cup knockout game, only behind 170* between Jos Buttler and Alex Hales against India in the 2022 semis.

43 balls remaining is the most in a successful 150-plus chase in T20 World Cup history, surpassing 41 balls for Scotland against Oman at North Sound in 2024 (target: 151).

Overall, there have only been three such chases with more balls to spare in Men's T20Is: 62 for Australia against Scotland (target: 155) at Edinburgh in 2024, 60 for India against New Zealand in Guwahati (target 154) earlier this season, and 52 for Austria against Hungary (target: 187) at Ilfov County in 2025.

A match of contrasting halves for Jansen

55* – Jansen's blistering unbeaten 55 helped South Africa post 169/8 after they had been reduced to 77/5 in the 11th over. He became just the second to register a 50-plus score from No.7 or lower in a T20 World Cup knockout game, after Michael Hussey did that against Pakistan (60* off 24) in the 2010 semis at Gros Islet.

77 runs added by Jansen and Tristian Stubbs is the highest for sixth wicket or lower for South Africa in all T20Is, bettering 71 between Stubbs and Patrick Kruger against West Indies in Tarouba in 2024. It's also the second-best in a T20 World Cup knockout, after 81* between Marcus Stoinis and Matthew Wade against Pakistan in Dubai in 2021.

53 runs conceded by Jansen made it the most expensive spell for South Africa in T20 World Cups, the previous record being Shaun Pollock's 1/52 against the West Indies in the first ever T20 WC fixture at the Wanderers, Johannesburg in 2007.

Jansen's 0/53 in 2.5 overs is also the joint most-expensive T20 World Cup spell of three overs or fewer, alongside Wanindu Hasaranga's 0/53 (3 overs) against Australia in Perth in 2022.