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2028 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Preview
The 2028 ICC Men's T20 World Cup will be a co-hosted tournament with Australia & New Zealand sharing hosting.
It will be the third consecutive tournament to be co-hosted and the first time it will be held in New Zealand, whilst Australia hosted in 2022.
Having become the first-ever back-to-back winners, could India retain their trophy and make it three wins on the spin?
| T20 World Cup 2028 01 Feb @ 00:00 - Outright Winner | ||
|---|---|---|
| India | 2.38 | |
| Australia | 6.00 | |
| New Zealand | 8.00 | |
| England | 8.00 | |
| South Africa | 8.00 | |
The top seven teams from the 2026 tournament (excluding the host) all receive an automatic berth for this tournament, meaning the following teams will appear at the 2028 T20 World Cup:
England, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the West Indies & Zimbabwe.
The two hosting countries, Australia and New Zealand, get automatic places in the tournament, and the top three-ranked teams (excluding those already in) also get automatic berths; those are Afghanistan, Bangladesh & Ireland.
The remaining eight places are made up of the qualifiers, three from the Asia-EAP qualifications, two from each of the African & European qualifications and then one from the Americas qualifications.
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ICC Mens T20 World Cup Tipster Competition
OLBG are delighted to announce we will be running a £100 FREE to enter ICC Men's T20 World Cup Cricket Tipping Competition, there is a £25 top prize with 15 cash prizes up for grabs!
The tournament will be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand, with the tournament dates expected to be announced closer to the time.
How to Play:
- Log in to your OLBG account.
- Make your picks on the Six Nations match markets.
- Add your reasoning and climb the leaderboard towards the cash prizes!
- Make sure you add 10+ tips with 5+ of those being profitable.
You will be able to track your progress and check the criteria needed on the tipster table. Good luck!
ICC Men's T20 World Cup Betting Tips
There are some great cricket tipsters on OLBG, and they will have you covered with their 2026 T20 World Cup Betting Tips throughout the tournament, with predictions on who will win outright and each match.
The first option is to head over to the Best Cricket Tipsters page, where we display the best cricket tipsters on OLBG. By best, we mean tipsters who have shown a profit over the past year for all of their cricket predictions. The page will only show tipsters who have open tips.
If you want to see more in-depth options, then head over to the Cricket Betting Predictions page. On this page, you will be able to see which outcomes are being most supported by the expert cricket tipsters for each game and the tournament outcome market, too.
In addition, you can click on each match to see much more. Each market and outcome available will be shown along with the number of tips on each outcome, and you can read the expert tipsters' thoughts on the games and their reasoning for why they have backed their prediction.
Also, if you haven't already, we are not sure why you wouldn't have! There have already been over a million downloads. Get the OLBG App installed and have all of those T20 World Cup predictions in one easy place to find.
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ICC Mens T20 World Cup Favourite Statistics
As you can see below, favourites at the T20 World Cup can have a tendency to jump around from tournament to tournament. With a usual two years between tournaments, a lot can change in that time.
For example, the 2024 tournament saw 82.35% of favourites win, a high for this tournament, and when you compare that to two years earlier (2022), only 63.41% of favourites won.
That is a difference of 18.94% between the two tournaments, which is quite a difference, and those are the lows and highs in the history of this tournament, which have come at two of the last three tournaments!
| Year | Favourites | Winners | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 27 | 18 | 66.67% |
| 2010 | 27 | 19 | 70.37% |
| 2012 | 26 | 19 | 73.08% |
| 2014 | 35 | 25 | 71.43% |
| 2016 | 33 | 24 | 72.73% |
| 2021 | 45 | 36 | 80.00% |
| 2022 | 41 | 26 | 63.41% |
| 2024 | 51 | 42 | 82.35% |
| 2026 | 53 | 44 | 83.02% |
| Total | 338 | 253 | 74.85% |
ICC Mens T20 World Cup Top Performing Favourites
We have looked at the winning favourites as a whole at the tournaments, but what about teams when they are favourites? Who are the most reliable?
Top of the list is Afghanistan, who have been priced up as favourites in 12 of their games, and they have gone on to win 11 of those games, which is an impressive 92% win rate when favourites.
Pakistan are the only other team with a win rate of 90% or more; they have a 19-2 record, which is a 90% win rate, whilst New Zealand are the best of the rest with a 83% (19-4) win rate.
Australia are surprising, their record of 27-14 has seen them win just 66% of their games as favourites, just below India (73%) and England (75%), who in T20 cricket you would probably expect better win rates.
| Team | Games | W-L | Win% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 12 | 11-1 | 92% |
| Pakistan | 21 | 19-2 | 90% |
| New Zealand | 23 | 19-4 | 83% |
| Sri Lanka | 35 | 28-7 | 80% |
| West Indies | 23 | 18-5 | 78% |
| Bangladesh | 13 | 10-3 | 77% |
| South Africa | 40 | 30-10 | 75% |
| England | 39 | 29-10 | 74% |
| India | 49 | 36-13 | 73% |
| Australia | 41 | 27-14 | 66% |
| Ireland | 11 | 5-6 | 45% |
ICC Mens T20 World Cup Past Winners
India are the most successful team at the T20 World Cup, having won their third title in 2026, which moved them clear of both England & West Indies on two wins.
Australia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka make up the other winners, having each won it once. New Zealand have been runners-up twice and South Africa once.
| Year | Champions | Margin | Runners-Up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | India 255/5 (20 overs) | 96 runs | New Zealand 159 (19 overs) |
| 2024 | India 176/7 (20 overs) | 7 runs | South Africa 169/8 (20 overs) |
| 2022 | England 138/5 (19 overs) | 5 wickets | Pakistan 137/8 (20 overs) |
| 2021 | Australia 173/2 (18.5 overs) | 8 wickets | New Zealand 172/4 (20 overs) |
| 2016 | West India 161/6 (19.4 overs) | 4 wickets | England 155/9 (20 overs) |
| 2014 | Sri Lanka 134/4 (17.5 overs) | 6 wickets | India 130/4 (20 overs) |
| 2012 | West Indies 137/6 (20 overs) | 36 runs | Sri Lanka 101 (18.4 overs) |
| 2010 | England 148/3 (17 overs) | 7 wickets | Australia 147/6 (20 overs) |
| 2009 | Pakistan 139/2 (18.4 overs) | 8 wickets | Sri Lanka 138/6 (20 overs) |
| 2007 | India 157/5 (20 overs) | 5 runs | Pakistan 152 (19.4 overs) |
ICC Men's T20 World Cup Country Performances
When looking at the performances of the countries that have qualified for the 2028 tournament, it is India that has the best strike rate, winning 73.33% of the matches with forty-three victories from their sixty-one games.
There are only two other countries which find themselves in the sixty per cent range: those are South Africa with 69.64% (38-57) and Australia with 62.74% (32-51).
Of course, winning when it matters is also important. England and West Indies, for example, only have a 59% & 58% success rates; however, they are both dual winners of the tournament.
| Team | Played | Won | Lost | Tie | NR | Win% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| India | 61 | 43 | 16 | 1 (1) | 1 | 73.33% |
| South Africa | 57 | 38 | 17 | 1 (1) | 1 | 69.64% |
| Australia | 51 | 32 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 62.74% |
| Pakistan | 58 | 34 | 21 | 2 (0) | 1 | 59.64% |
| Sri Lanka | 61 | 35 | 25 | 1 (1) | 0 | 59.01% |
| England | 60 | 34 | 24 | 0 | 2 | 58.62% |
| West Indies | 53 | 29 | 22 | 1 (1) | 1 | 57.69% |
| New Zealand | 55 | 30 | 22 | 2 (0) | 1 | 55.55% |
| Zimbabwe | 26 | 11 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 44.00% |
| Afghanistan | 34 | 14 | 19 | 1 (0) | 0 | 41.17% |
| Ireland | 31 | 8 | 20 | 0 | 3 | 28.57% |
| Bangladesh | 45 | 12 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 27.27% |
ICC Men's T20 World Cup Records
Highest Win Margin
Sri Lanka beat Kenya by 172 runs after setting them a target of 261 and then bowling them out for a total of 88 during the 2007 tournament.
Highest Innings Total
The 260/6 set by Sri Lanka in the previously mentioned record is also the highest-scoring innings, just four runs more than the next best, which India (256/4) set in 2026.
Six of the top seven highest inning totals came at the 2026 tournament in India.
Highest Match Aggregate
At the Wankhede Stadium in 2026, the match between India and England set the highest aggregate score, with India scoring 253 and England scoring 246 for a total of 499 runs!
Lowest Innings Total
The lowest-scoring innings, which was set in 2014 when Sri Lanka bowled out the Netherlands for just 39, was matched in 2024 when the West Indies bowled out Uganda for the same score, with Akeal Hosein taking 5 wickets.
Lowest Match Aggregate
Given that the Netherlands batted first in the above record when only scoring 39, it's no surprise that the match is also the lowest-scoring aggregate, with Sri Lanka hitting the needed 40 runs for a match total of 79 runs.
The game was one of four which have produced under 100 runs; two of those came at the most recent tournament, with the 81 in the New Zealand / Uganda match being the closest to breaking the current record.
Contributor Information
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Records were sourced from ESPN cricinfo and past winners and team information from Wikipedia.
