Stats - Luck of the toss, spin to win, and the slowest men's T20 World Cup
All the numbers - at once interesting and intriguing - from the T20 World Cup 2021
The teams that won the toss had a win-loss ratio of 2.00, the highest in any edition of the men's T20 World Cup, as 30 of the 45 matches were won by the sides that won the toss. The previous highest was 1.75 in 2016 - 21 out of 33 completed games.
The top-three batters did the majority of the scoring. Each of the top-four run-getters in the tournament were openers: Babar Azam, David Warner, Mohammad Rizwan and Jos Buttler. The top-three batters of New Zealand - Martin Guptill, Daryl Mitchell and Kane Williamson - all scored over 200 runs. A total of 54.38 % of the runs in the tournament were scored by the players batting in the top three, the highest ever in a men's T20 World Cup.
Aaron Finch won six tosses in the tournament and Australia won all those matches while chasing. The only time they lost the toss - against England - they lost by eight wickets. Afghanistan won five tosses in their five matches - the only team with a better success rate at the coin toss than Australia in this edition.
Sampath Bandarupalli is a statistician at ESPNcricinfo