Players with the most catches in T20 Cricket

Cricket experts say that catches win matches. Surya Kumar Yadav, who took the breathtaking catch of South Africa’s David Miller on the boundary rope with 3 attempts in the T20 World Cup final of 2024, is still in the memory of Indian fans. This catch helped India win the T20 World Cup 2024 final after a gap of 17 years. Cricket fans wouldn’t have forgotten the ‘Superman’ catch by Glenn Phillips of Australia’s Marcus Stonis in the group 12 stage of the T20 World Cup of 2022, which changed the momentum in favor of New Zealand.  Let us look at who holds the record of most catches in T20 cricket.

The following is the list of the most catches taken by the fielder in ICC Men’s T20 World Cup matches.

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup — Most catches as a fielder 

Rank	Player	Catches	Matches	Catches per match
1	David Warner	25	41	0.609
2	AB de Villiers	23	30	0.920
2	Glenn Maxwell	23	31	0.741
4	Rohit Sharma	21	47	0.446
5	Martin Guptill	19	28	0.678

 Men’s T20 Matches – Most Catches as a fielder 

This list includes all the T20 matches including International, IPL and other league matches happening across the world. In the list, Kieron Pollard leads the list with  a good margin, but David Miller is ahead of Kieron Pollard in the  catches taken per inning.

Rank	Player	Catches	Matches	Innings	Catches per inning
1	Kieron Pollard	405	735	723	0.560
2	David Miller	327	549	543	0.602
3	Dwayne Bravo	275	582	573	0.479
4	Glenn Maxwell	268	499	496	0.540
5	James Vince	263	469	461	0.570

 

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup — Most dismissals as wicketkeepers 

In this list, India’s MS Dhoni leads with a total of 32 dismissals, but South Africa’s Quinton de Kock has a chance to surpass him in this World Cup.

Rank	Wicketkeeper	Catches	Stumpings	Total Dismissals	Innings
1	MS Dhoni	21	11	32	32
2	Quinton de Kock	23	7	30	27
2	Kamran Akmal	12	18	30	30
4	Dinesh Ramdin	18	9	27	29
5	Kumar Sangakkara	12	14	26	31

Men’s T20 matches — Most dismissals as wicketkeepers 

The Quinton de Kock is leading the list with a total of 330 dismissals, but if you look at dismissals per innings, then Kamran Akmal has almost one dismissal per innings.  

Rank	Wicketkeeper	Catches	Stumpings	Total Dismissals	Innings	Dismissals per innings
1	Quinton de Kock	272	58	330	368	0.896
2	MS Dhoni	225	92	317	392	0.808
3	Dinesh Karthik	217	72	289	349	0.828
4	Kamran Akmal	172	102	274	281	0.975
5	Jos Buttler	205	49	254	307	0.827