5 T20 World Cup records that might never be broken

Australia are set to host the upcoming T20 World Cup 2022 starting on October 16. They will be looking to become the first team to win the prestigious trophy as a host nation. If they triumph in the 2022 edition, they can also become the first team to win two back-to-back T20 World Cups. 

But the current champions currently rank sixth in the ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings and recently lost a T20I series against India. Both Australia and India will consider themselves frontrunners for the title. Players from both teams will be looking forward to eyeing some personal milestones as well. Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, and David Warner among others will be looking to surpass Mahela jayawardene's record of 1016 runs (most runs scored in T20 World Cup history).

But there are some team and individual records in the tournament's history that might never be broken. Let's take a look at five of these records:

1. Fastest Fifty (12 Balls, Yuvraj Singh in 2007)

India won the inaugural 2007 T20 World Cup despite playing only one T20I match going into the tournament. Indian team, under the leadership of MS Dhoni, created many memories and records. Yuvraj Singh's six sixes against England was the highlight of the tournament, but his fifty in just 12 balls shocked the cricketing world.

Yuvraj smashed 58 runs off just 16 balls and hit six sixes in six balls against England. He reached the fifty-run mark in just 12 deliveries to notch up the record of the fastest half-century in T20I cricket. This remains a record in both World Cups and T20I matches till date.

Chris Gayle and Hazratullah Zazai also smashed fifties in 12 balls but that came in domestic T20 tournaments. In the 2016 T20 World Cup, New Zealand's Colin Munro came very close to breaking Yuvraj's record but missed by a two-ball margin (14 balls).