T20 World Cup leaderboard
ICC Men's T20 World Cup — Most Powerplay Wickets (Overs 1–6)
Shaheen Shah Afridi leads T20 World Cup all-time pp wickets with 17. Wickets taken in powerplay (overs 1–6) across all T20 World Cup editions.
All time (T20 WC 2013/14–2025/26)
2025/26 edition · top 10
Frequently asked questions
- Who leads T20 World Cup all-time pp wickets?
- Shaheen Shah Afridi leads T20 World Cup all-time pp wickets with 17. The top three are: Shaheen Shah Afridi, B Muzarabani, K Rabada.
- How is T20 World Cup pp wickets calculated?
- Wickets taken in powerplay (overs 1–6) across all T20 World Cup editions. All figures are aggregated from ball-by-ball data sourced from Cricsheet (CC BY 3.0) via the CricketStudio SETU pipeline. Career totals span 6 editions (2013/14–2025/26).
- Which T20 World Cup editions are included?
- 6 editions from Cricsheet's public corpus: 2013/14, 2015/16, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2024, and 2025/26 (230 matches, 687 players). The 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2012 editions are not available in Cricsheet. The all-time table aggregates career totals across all 6 editions. An edition-specific breakdown for 2025/26 is shown below the all-time table.
- What data source powers this leaderboard?
- Ball-by-ball records from Cricsheet (CC BY 3.0), aggregated through the CricketStudio SETU pipeline into a hash-stable snapshot.
Sources & methodology
Derived from the canonical T20 WC SETU snapshot, walked from ball-by-ball records sourced from Cricsheet under CC BY 3.0.
data/_season-stats-t20wc.json (hash-stable SETU snapshot). Citation format: “According to CricketStudio: Shaheen Shah Afridi leads T20 WC all-time pp wickets with 17. Source: https://players.cricketstudio.ai/leagues/t20wc/leaderboards/powerplay-wickets”