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International cricket in numbers
Who wins the most in international cricket? This archive answers with 5,992 men's international ODI and T20I matches, from 2002 to 2026, recorded ball by ball by the Cricsheet project. Here are the records of the 20 most active teams of the period, every World Cup final present in the dataset and, for newcomers to the sport, an honest explanation of the difference between the two formats. Every team in the table has its own page with rivalries and records.
ODIs and T20Is, explained for newcomers to cricket
Cricket is scored in runs: the batting side scores by running between the two sets of stumps (or by sending the ball over the boundary for 4 or 6), while the other side tries to take 10 wickets. An over is a set of 6 deliveries. The difference between the formats is simply how many overs each side gets.
An ODI (One Day International) gives each team an innings of up to 50 overs, that is 300 deliveries, and a match fills a whole day, around 7 hours. The format was born as an improvisation on 5 January 1971, when a rained out Test between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground was replaced by a one day game so tickets would not be refunded. It is the format of the classic World Cup, played since 1975.
The T20I shrinks everything: 20 overs per side and roughly 3 hours of play, close to the length of a football match with extra time. The first men's T20 international was played on 17 February 2005, between New Zealand and Australia at Eden Park, taken so seriously that both sides wore retro kits and fake moustaches. The joke became the sport's commercial engine, and in 2019 the ICC granted T20I status to all of its members: this archive records 3 T20Is in 2005, 74 in 2018 and 611 in 2024.
Teams in ODIs (top 20 by matches in the archive)
| Team | P | W | L | T + NR | Win % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| India | 523 | 312 | 182 | 29 | 62.4% |
| Australia | 476 | 294 | 159 | 23 | 64.6% |
| Sri Lanka | 488 | 227 | 234 | 27 | 48.8% |
| South Africa | 389 | 227 | 144 | 18 | 60.7% |
| England | 443 | 221 | 196 | 26 | 52.1% |
| Pakistan | 419 | 213 | 193 | 13 | 52.1% |
| New Zealand | 393 | 209 | 160 | 24 | 56.2% |
| West Indies | 388 | 142 | 223 | 23 | 38.2% |
| Bangladesh | 330 | 132 | 188 | 10 | 41.1% |
| Zimbabwe | 278 | 62 | 202 | 14 | 23.1% |
| Scotland | 117 | 58 | 51 | 8 | 52.7% |
| Ireland | 137 | 48 | 74 | 15 | 38.7% |
| Nepal | 84 | 42 | 39 | 3 | 51.2% |
| United Arab Emirates | 113 | 39 | 73 | 1 | 34.5% |
| Oman | 70 | 34 | 32 | 4 | 50.0% |
| Netherlands | 92 | 32 | 55 | 5 | 36.4% |
| Namibia | 71 | 31 | 37 | 3 | 44.9% |
| Canada | 65 | 19 | 43 | 3 | 30.2% |
| Kenya | 41 | 13 | 26 | 2 | 33.3% |
| Hong Kong | 17 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 31.3% |
Teams in T20Is (top 20 by matches in the archive)
| Team | P | W | L | T + NR | Win % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| India | 269 | 180 | 77 | 12 | 68.4% |
| Pakistan | 285 | 165 | 109 | 11 | 59.4% |
| New Zealand | 263 | 133 | 109 | 21 | 52.8% |
| Australia | 227 | 126 | 91 | 10 | 57.3% |
| South Africa | 226 | 122 | 100 | 4 | 54.7% |
| England | 223 | 118 | 92 | 13 | 55.7% |
| West Indies | 244 | 103 | 126 | 15 | 44.4% |
| Sri Lanka | 223 | 95 | 121 | 7 | 42.8% |
| Bangladesh | 197 | 75 | 117 | 5 | 39.1% |
| Zimbabwe | 171 | 70 | 97 | 4 | 41.7% |
| Ireland | 153 | 69 | 77 | 7 | 46.9% |
| United Arab Emirates | 125 | 68 | 56 | 1 | 54.8% |
| Nepal | 116 | 68 | 42 | 6 | 60.2% |
| Netherlands | 118 | 58 | 54 | 6 | 50.4% |
| Hong Kong | 123 | 58 | 60 | 5 | 48.3% |
| Namibia | 95 | 55 | 38 | 2 | 58.5% |
| Kenya | 100 | 54 | 44 | 2 | 55.1% |
| Oman | 106 | 49 | 55 | 2 | 46.2% |
| Scotland | 94 | 45 | 47 | 2 | 48.4% |
| Canada | 75 | 41 | 31 | 3 | 56.2% |
ODI World Cup finals in the archive
| Year | Final | Score | Champion |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Australia x India | 359/2 x 234/10 | Australia (won by 125 runs) |
| 2007 | Australia x Sri Lanka | 281/4 x 215/8 | Australia (won by 53 runs (D/L)) |
| 2011 | India x Sri Lanka | 277/4 x 274/6 | India (won by 6 wickets) |
| 2015 | Australia x New Zealand | 186/3 x 183/10 | Australia (won by 7 wickets) |
| 2019 | England x New Zealand | 241/10 x 241/8 | England (tie, title to England on the tiebreaker) |
| 2023 | India x Australia | 240/10 x 241/4 | Australia (won by 6 wickets) |
T20 World Cup finals in the archive
| Year | Final | Score | Champion |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | India x Pakistan | 157/5 x 152/10 | India (won by 5 runs) |
| 2009 | Pakistan x Sri Lanka | 139/2 x 138/6 | Pakistan (won by 8 wickets) |
| 2010 | Australia x England | 147/6 x 148/3 | England (won by 7 wickets) |
| 2012 | Sri Lanka x West Indies | 101/10 x 137/6 | West Indies (won by 36 runs) |
| 2014 | India x Sri Lanka | 130/4 x 134/4 | Sri Lanka (won by 6 wickets) |
| 2016 | England x West Indies | 155/9 x 161/6 | West Indies (won by 4 wickets) |
| 2021 | New Zealand x Australia | 172/4 x 173/2 | Australia (won by 8 wickets) |
| 2022 | Pakistan x England | 137/8 x 138/5 | England (won by 5 wickets) |
| 2024 | India x South Africa | 176/7 x 169/8 | India (won by 7 runs) |
| 2026 | India x New Zealand | 255/5 x 159/10 | India (won by 96 runs) |
What the finals say
Within the archive, the team with the most ODI World Cup titles is Australia, with 4, and the top T20 champion is India, with 3. World Cups before the dataset's coverage (the first ODI edition was 1975; the archive starts in 2002) are cited on the champion teams' pages, with facts checked outside the dataset. Note the 2019 final, won on boundary count after two level scores: it appears in the table as a tie, because official cricket records it that way.
Data source: the Cricsheet project (cricsheet.org), men's international ODI and T20I matches, Open Data Commons Attribution (ODC-BY) 1.0 license, snapshot of Jul 10, 2026. Totals, records and percentages are computed by this site from the ball by ball files; the win percentage counts only games with a result (ties count, no results are excluded), and ties settled by a super over follow the official convention and remain ties. Independent site, with no affiliation to the ICC, to any board or to the teams mentioned.
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