A Twenty20 International (T20I) is a form of cricket, played between two of the international members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), in which each team faces a maximum of twenty overs. The matches have top-class status and are the highest T20 standard. The game is played under the rules of Twenty20 cricket. The first Twenty20 International match between two men's sides was played on 17 February 2005. England played their first Twenty20 International match against Australia on 13 June 2005, and this list of records start with that match. England have won the ICC Men's T20 World Cup on two occasions, in 2010 and 2022.
The top five records are listed for each category, except for the team wins, losses, draws and ties, all round records and the partnership records. Tied records for fifth place are also included. Explanations of the general symbols and cricketing terms used in the list are given below. Specific details are provided in each category where appropriate. All records include matches played for England only, and are correct .
The highest innings total scored in T20Is came in October 2024, when Zimbabwe scored 344/4 against Gambia in a T20 World Cup qualifier. The highest score for England is 304/2, scored against South Africa during the latter's tour of England in 2025.
The lowest innings total scored was by Ivory Coast against Nigeria when they were dismissed for 7 during qualifiers for the 2026 T20 World Cup. The lowest completed score in T20I history for England is 80, scored against India at the 2012 World Twenty20.
The semi-final of the 2026 T20 World Cup saw England concede their most runs in single T20I innings, with India scoring 253.
The lowest score conceded by England for a full inning is 45 when they dismissed West Indies during their tour of West Indies in 2019 at Warner Park, Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis.
The highest match aggregate scored in T20Is came in the match between South Africa and West Indies in the second T20I of the March 2023 series at Centurion Park when South Africa successfully chased 259/4 in response to the West Indies' score of 258/5, for a match aggregate of 517 runs.
The lowest match aggregate in T20Is is 23, which has occurred twice. The lowest match aggregate for a match involving England is 97, during the 2024 Men's T20 World Cup when England dismissed Oman for 47 runs.
A T20I match is won when one side has scored more runs than the runs scored by the opposing side during their innings. If both sides have completed both their allocated innings and the side that fielded last has the higher aggregate of runs, it is known as a win by runs. This indicates the number of runs that they had scored more than the opposing side. If the side batting last wins the match, it is known as a win by wickets, indicating the number of wickets that were still to fall.
The greatest winning margin by runs in T20Is was Zimbabwe's victory over Gambia by 290 runs in the 2024 African qualifiers for the 2026 T20 World Cup. The largest victory recorded by England was 146 runs, during South Africa's tour of England in 2025.
The greatest winning margin by balls remaining in T20Is was Spain's victory over Isle of Man with 118 balls remaining in the sixth match of the Isle of Man tour of Spain in February 2023. The largest victory recorded by England was during the 2024 T20 World Cup when the defeated Oman by 8 wickets with 101 balls remaining.
A total of 96 matches have ended with the chasing team winning by 10 wickets, with Indonesia winning by such margins a record six times. England have won a T20I match by this margin on four occasions.
South Africa holds the record for the highest successful run chase which they achieved when they scored 259/4 in response to West Indies 258/5, which is also the record for the highest match aggregate. England's highest innings total while chasing is 230/8 in a successful run chase against South Africa at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai during the 2016 World Twenty20.
The narrowest run margin victory is by 1 run, which has been achieved in 34 T20Is, with England winning such games twice.
The narrowest winning margin by balls remaining in T20Is is by winning of the last ball which has been achieved 63 times. England has achieved victory off the last ball twice.
The narrowest margin of victory by wickets is 1 wicket, which has settled 21 T20Is. England have won a match by this margin once.
England's biggest defeat by runs was against India in the 2012 World Twenty20 at Ranasinghe Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka during the same match when they recorded their lowest complete inning total.
The largest defeat in terms of balls remaining suffered by England was against India during their 2025 tour, when they lost by 7 wickets with 43 balls remaining at Eden Gardens.
England have lost a T20I match by a margin of 10 wickets on a single occasion.
The narrowest loss of England in terms of runs is by 1 run, suffered once.
England has suffered loss off the last ball twice.
The smallest margin of defeat by wickets suffered by England was against India during their 2025 tour, when they lost by 2 wickets at the Chepauk Stadium.
A tie can occur when the scores of both teams are equal at the conclusion of play, provided that the side batting last has completed their innings. There have been 45 ties in T20Is history, with England involved in two such games, both of which they won in a Super Over.
A run is the unit of scoring in cricket. A run is scored when the batsman hits the ball with his bat and with his partner runs the length of the pitch. The world record for most T20I runs is held by Pakistan's Babar Azam, with 4596. Jos Buttler is the leading England batsman on this list.
The world record for highest individual score in a T20I innings is held by Australia's Aaron Finch, who scored 172 against Zimbabwe in 2018. Phil Salt holds the England record with his century against South Africa during their tour of England in 2025.
A batsman's batting average is the total number of runs they have scored divided by the number of times they have been dismissed. The world record for highest T20I batting average (minimum 25 innings) is held by India's Virat Kohli, who averaged 48.7. The England batsman with the highest average is Kevin Pietersen.
A half-century is a score of between 50 and 99 runs. Statistically, once a batsman's score reaches 100, it is no longer considered a half-century but a century. The world record for most T20I half-centuries is held by Pakistan's Babar Azam, with 42. Jos Buttler has the most half-centuries for England.
A century is a score of 100 or more runs in a single innings. The world record for most T20I centuries is shared by Australia's Glenn Maxwell and India's Rohit Sharma, with five each. Phil Salt is the only England batsman with more than one century.
The world record for most sixes scored in T20Is is held by India's Rohit Sharma, with 205. Jos Buttler has hit the most sixes for England.
The world record for most fours scored in T20Is is held by Pakistan's Babar Azam, with 477. Jos Buttler has hit the most fours for England.
The world record for highest strike rate in T20Is (minimum 25 innings) is held by India's Abhishek Sharma, who strikes at 188.8. Phil Salt is the highest England batsman on the list.
The world record for highest strike rates in a T20I innings (minimum 25 runs scored) is held by Nepal's Dipendra Airee, who struck at 520.0 against Mongolia in 2023. The England record is held by Harry Brook, who struck at 442.9 against the West Indies during England's tour there in 2023.
The world record for most T20I runs scored in a calendar year is held by Austria's Karanbir Singh, who scored 1488 runs in 2025. Jos Buttler scored 589 runs in 2021, the most for an England batsman in a single year.
The world record for most runs scored in a single T20I series is held by Canada's Aaron Johnson, who scored 402 runs at the 2022 Desert Cup. Phil Salt has scored the most runs in a single series for an England batsmen, with 331 runs in the England tour of the West Indies in 2023âÂÂ24.
A duck refers to a batsman being dismissed without scoring a run. The world record for most T20I ducks scored is held by Sri Lanka's Dasun Shanaka, with 16. The England record is held by Jos Buttler, who has scored ten ducks.
A bowler takes the wicket of a batsman when the form of dismissal is bowled, caught, leg before wicket, stumped or hit wicket. If the batsman is dismissed by run out, obstructing the field, handling the ball, hitting the ball twice or timed out the bowler does not receive credit. The world record for most T20I wickets is held by Afghanistan's Rashid Khan, with 193. Adil Rashid is the England bowler who has taken the most wickets.
Bowling figures refers to the number of the wickets a bowler has taken and the number of runs conceded. The world record for best T20I innings figures is held by Bhutan's Sonam Yeshey, who took 8/7 against Myanmar in 2025. Sam Curran took 5/10 against Afghanistan at the 2022 T20 World Cup, the best figures for an England player.
A bowler's bowling average is the total number of runs they have conceded divided by the number of wickets they have taken. Thailand's Jandre Coetzee holds the record for the best career average in T20Is (minimum 25 wickets), with 9.2. Graeme Swann, with an average of 16.8, is the highest ranked England bowler.
A bowler's economy rate is the total number of runs they have conceded divided by the number of overs they have bowled. Uganda's Frank Nsubuga, holds the T20I record for the best career economy rate, with 4.7 of February 2026. Graeme Swann, with a rate of 6.4 runs per over conceded over his 39-match T20I career, is the highest England player on the list.
A bowler's strike rate is the total number of balls they have bowled divided by the number of wickets they have taken. The bowler with the best T20I career strike rate (minimum 25 wickets taken) is Cyprus's Waqar Ali, with a strike rate of 9.9 balls per wicket. Jamie Overton has the lowest strike rate among England bowlers.
Rashid Khan of Afghanistan has taken four or more wickets on eleven occasions, the most among all international bowlers. Chris Jordan and Adil Rashid are the only two players for England to have taken four wickets more than once.
On sixteen occasions, bowlers have bowled at least two full overs in T20Is without conceding a run, for an economy rate of 0.00. The England record for best economy rate in an innings (minimum two full overs bowled) is held by Adil Rashid, who bowled a spell of 2 runs for 4 wickets in 2.2 overs against West Indies in the 2021 T20 World Cup for an economy rate of 0.85.
The record for best strike rate in an innings, when a minimum of 2 wickets are taken by the player, is shared by Greece's Georgios Galanis, Japan's Benjamin Ito-Davis and the UAE's Muhammad Zuhaib, who each took two wickets in 0.2 overs for a strike rate of 1.0. Will Jacks, Chris Jordan, Darren Maddy and Joe Root hold the England record for best strike rate in an innings, when a minimum of 2 wickets are taken by the player, at 3.0.
The worst figures in a T20I belong to Gambia's Musa Jobarteh, who bowled a spell of 0/93 against Zimbabwe in 2024. The worst figures by an England player belong to Stuart Broad, who bowled a spell of 0/60 during the 2007 World Twenty20 against India at at Kingsmead, Durban, South Africa.
The most runs conceded in a T20I is 93, by Gambia's Musa Jobarteh against Zimbabwe in 2024. The English record is held by James Anderson, who conceded 64 against Australia in 2007.
The record for most T20I wickets taken in a calendar year is held by Bahrain's Ali Dawood, who took 63 in 2025. The England record is held by Sam Curran, who took 25 wickets in 2022.
The record for most wickets taken by a bowler in a T20I single series is held by Uganda's Alpesh Ramjani, who took 25 wickets in 11 matches at the 2023 East Africa Cup. The England record for most wickets in a series is shared by Sam Curran, who took 13 wickets during the 2022 T20 World Cup, and Adil Rashid, who took 13 wickets during the 2026 T20 World Cup.
The wicket-keeper is a specialist fielder who stands behind the stumps being guarded by the batsman on strike, and is the only member of the fielding side allowed to wear gloves and leg pads. Many players have played matches both as a wicket-keeper and as a regular fielder; in the records below, the number of innings refers to those where the player was the nominated wicket-keeper at the start of the match, and the number of catches only include those taken as a wicket-keeper.
A wicket-keeper can be credited with the dismissal of a batsman in two ways, caught or stumped. A fair catch is taken when the ball is caught fully within the field of play without it bouncing after the ball has touched the striker's bat or glove holding the bat, while a stumping occurs when the wicket-keeper puts down the wicket while the batsman is out of his ground and not attempting a run. Jos Buttler is the highest-ranked England player, in second place, in the list of most dismissals in T20Is as a wicket-keeper, the list being headed by South African Quinton de Kock with 117 dismissals (98 catches and 19 stumpings).
Buttler has taken the most catches in T20Is as a wicket-keeper for England, second overall to Quinton de Kock, who has taken 98.
Buttler has made the most stumpings in T20Is for England, with Mahendra Singh Dhoni of India heading the all-time list with 34.
Mitchell Hay of New Zealand is the only wicket-keeper to have made six dismissals in a single innings in a T20I. Matt Prior is the only England wicket-keeper to have made 4 dismissals in an innings.
The record for most dismissals taken by a wicket-keeper in a single series is 14, jointly held by four cricketers. The England record is held by Jos Buttler, who made 9 dismissals (all catches) in the 2022 T20 World Cup.
Caught is one of the nine methods a batsman can be dismissed in cricket. Only catches made as a fielder are included, those made as a wicket-keeper or as a substitute are excluded. South Africa's David Miller holds the record for the most catches in T20Is by a non-wicket-keeper with 85. Chris Jordan is the leading catcher for England, with 48.
The feat of taking five catches in an innings has been achieved three times in T20Is. The record for an England player is four catches, achieved by Jofra Archer against South Africa in 2025.
The world record for most catches taken by a fielder in a single T20I series is held by New Zealand's Glenn Phillips, who has taken 11 at the 2026 T20 World Cup.
The world record for most T20Is played is held by Ireland's Paul Stirling, with 163. Jos Buttler has played the most T20Is for England.
Hong Kong's Nizakat Khan holds the record for the most consecutive T20I matches played with 120, a record that is ongoing Adil Rashid holds the England record with 45.
The record for most T20Is played as captain is held by Rwanda's Clinton Rubagumya, with 90. Eoin Morgan holds the England record for most T20Is played as captain, with 72.
The youngest player to play in a T20I match was Marian Gherasim, who represented Romania at the age of 14 years and 16 days.
The record for oldest cricketer on T20I debut is held by Andrew Brownlee, who was 62 years and 145 days old when he made his debut for the Falkland Islands.
The Falkland Islands batsman Andrew Brownlee is the oldest player to appear in a T20I match, at 62 years and 147 days.
In cricket, two batsmen are always present at the crease batting together in a partnership. This partnership will continue until one of them is dismissed, retires or the innings comes to a close.
A wicket partnership describes the number of runs scored by the two batsmen before that number wicket in the innings falls, or the innings finishes before that wicket falls.
The world record for highest single partnership in a T20I is held by Japan's Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming and Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake, who had an unbeaten partnership of 258* against China in 2024. The England record is held by Dawid Malan and Eoin Morgan, who had a partnership of 182 against New Zealand in 2019.
The world record for highest overall partnership T20I runs by a pair is held by Pakistan's Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan, who scored 3300 runs together between 2019 and 2024. The England record is held by Jos Buttler and Phil Salt, who have scored 1333 runs together since 2022.
An umpire in cricket is a person who officiates the match according to the Laws of Cricket. Two umpires adjudicate the match on the field, whilst a third umpire has access to video replays, and a fourth umpire looks after the match balls and other duties. The records below are only for on-field umpires. Malaysia's Viswanadan Kalidas holds the record for the most T20I matches umpired with 100. The most experienced English umpire is Alex Wharf.