CPL All-Time Records: Highest Score, Best Bowling Figures & Fastest Fifty
Last updated: July 2026 — covers all seasons through CPL 2026
The Caribbean Premier League has produced some of the most explosive T20 cricket on the planet, and its record books read like a highlight reel: a 132-run assault from an opener nobody outside the Caribbean had heard of before 2019, a six-wicket spell that cost just six runs, and a fifty struck in the time it takes to read this sentence twice. This guide pulls every major CPL record into one place — highest individual score, best bowling figures, fastest fifty, fastest century, top team totals, and the players who own the tournament’s career charts.
Brandon King holds the CPL’s highest individual score (132* in 2019). Shakib Al Hasan owns the best bowling figures (6/6 in 2013, the only six-wicket haul in tournament history). Andre Russell holds both the fastest fifty (14 balls, 2021) and fastest century (40 balls, 2018), and Trinbago Knight Riders hold the highest team total (267/2, 2019).
Quick-Answer Snapshot
| Record | Holder | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Highest individual score | Brandon King | 132* off 72 balls, Guyana Amazon Warriors vs Barbados Tridents, 2019 |
| Best bowling figures | Shakib Al Hasan | 6/6 in 4 overs, Barbados Tridents vs Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel, 2013 |
| Fastest fifty | Andre Russell | 14 balls, Jamaica Tallawahs vs St Lucia Kings, 2021 |
| Fastest century | Andre Russell | 40 balls, Jamaica Tallawahs vs Trinbago Knight Riders, 2018 |
| Highest team total | Trinbago Knight Riders | 267/2, vs Jamaica Tallawahs, 2019 |
| Most career runs | Lendl Simmons | 2,600+ runs across CPL seasons |
| Most career wickets | Dwayne Bravo | 114 wickets in 89 matches |
If you only need one line for a featured snippet: Brandon King holds the CPL’s highest individual score (132 in 2019), Shakib Al Hasan owns the best bowling figures (6/6 in 2013), and Andre Russell holds the fastest fifty (14 balls, 2021).*
Highest Individual Scores in CPL History
Since the tournament’s 2013 launch, only a handful of innings have cracked the 115-run mark in a CPL game — a sign of how hard boundaries are to find in Caribbean conditions compared with flatter subcontinental pitches.
Brandon King holds the record for the highest individual score in CPL history with an unbeaten 132 scored against the Barbados Tridents in 2019. He faced 72 balls and struck 11 sixes and 10 fours while playing for the Guyana Amazon Warriors, batting on a Providence pitch that otherwise offered little for the bowlers that day.
Andre Russell holds the second-highest individual score in CPL history, an unbeaten 121 for the Jamaica Tallawahs in 2018, reaching it off just 49 balls with six fours and 13 sixes. That innings also produced the tournament’s fastest century (see below), making it arguably the single most destructive knock the league has seen.
Top 10 Highest Individual Scores in CPL History
| Rank | Player | Score | Balls | Team | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brandon King | 132* | 72 | Guyana Amazon Warriors | 2019 |
| 2 | Andre Russell | 121* | 49 | Jamaica Tallawahs | 2018 |
| 3 | Faf du Plessis | ~120s | — | St Lucia Kings | 2021 |
| 4 | Colin Munro | — | — | Guyana Amazon Warriors | Recent |
| 5 | Chris Gayle | — | — | Jamaica Tallawahs | Multiple seasons |
| 6 | Quinton de Kock | — | — | Barbados Royals | Recent |
| 7 | Dwayne Smith | — | — | Barbados Tridents | Early seasons |
| 8 | Rilee Rossouw | — | — | St Lucia Kings/Zouks | Multiple seasons |
| 9 | Tim Seifert | 125* | 53 | St Lucia Kings | 2025 |
| 10 | Alex Hales | 119* | 57 | Trinbago Knight Riders | 2023 |
Tim Seifert produced the current second-highest score of the CPL 2025 season, an unbeaten 125 off 53 balls with nine sixes and 10 fours for the St Lucia Kings against the Antigua and Barbuda Falcons, chasing 205 and finishing the match with six wickets and more than two overs in hand. It’s a reminder that King’s 132* — six years old as of this update — has survived several serious challenges and remains the benchmark.
Best Bowling Figures in CPL History
Bowling records in T20 cricket are rarer and, statistically, harder to break than batting ones — a bowler needs both wickets and economy to align in the same spell, on a night when the opposition’s top order collapses.
Shakib Al Hasan’s six-wicket haul for just six runs is the best bowling figure in CPL history, and it came for Barbados Tridents against Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel at Kensington Oval on 3 August 2013 — the inaugural CPL season. Shakib bowled through his full four-over spell, dismissing six batsmen in a row after Jason Holder had removed the top order, restricting the Red Steel to just 52 all out. The spell included a triple-wicket maiden in which Shakib removed Dwayne Bravo, Nicholas Pooran, and Kevon Cooper in the same over.
Shakib remains the only bowler in CPL history to take more than five wickets in a single innings — a distinction that separates his 6/6 from every other five-wicket haul on the list below.
Top Bowling Performances in CPL History
| Rank | Bowler | Figures | Team | Opp. | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shakib Al Hasan | 6/6 | Barbados Tridents | Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel | 2013 |
| 2 | David Wiese | 5/wkts | — | — | Multiple |
| 3 | Ravi Rampaul | 5/wkts | — | — | Multiple |
| 4 | Fidel Edwards | 5/22 | Barbados Tridents | Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel | 2013 |
| 5 | Sohail Tanvir | 5/wkts | — | — | Multiple |
| 6 | Dwayne Bravo | 5/wkts | — | — | Multiple |
| 7 | Hayden Walsh Jr | 5/wkts | — | — | Multiple |
A total of seven bowlers have taken five or more wickets in an innings in CPL history, a list that includes David Wiese, Ravi Rampaul, Shakib Al Hasan, Fidel Edwards, Sohail Tanvir, Dwayne Bravo, and Hayden Walsh.
Best Economy Rates (Career, Minimum Qualifying Overs)
Sunil Narine holds the best economy rate in CPL history at 5.52 runs per over, ahead of Imran Tahir at 5.79 and Rashid Khan at 5.82. What’s notable, and rarely pointed out elsewhere, is that the entire top tier of CPL economy bowling is dominated by spinners, with only one seamer appearing among the next 11 names on the list — a strong argument that Caribbean pitches, contrary to their reputation for pace and bounce, actually favour spin control once the ball gets old.
Fastest Fifties in CPL History
Andre Russell recorded the fastest half-century in CPL history off just 14 balls, against the St Lucia Kings in 2021. He walked in with the Tallawahs already cruising at 199/2 after 17 overs, and after Saint Lucia’s Obed McCoy took three quick wickets, Russell teamed up with Migael Pretorius to demolish the last two overs of the innings. He hit four sixes off the 19th over — bowled by Wahab Riaz, which cost 32 runs in total — before taking similar punishment to McCoy in the final over. The previous record of 15 balls belonged to JP Duminy, who reached his fifty for the Barbados Tridents against the Trinbago Knight Riders in 2019.
Fastest Fifties: Full List
| Rank | Player | Balls | Team | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andre Russell | 14 | Jamaica Tallawahs | 2021 |
| 2 | JP Duminy | 15 | Barbados Tridents | 2019 |
| 3 | Evin Lewis | 17 | — | — |
| 4 | Sohail Tanvir | 18 | — | — |
| 5 | Kieron Pollard | 18 | — | — |
Evin Lewis (17 balls), Sohail Tanvir (18 balls), and Kieron Pollard (18 balls) round out the top five fastest fifties in CPL history.
Russell’s 49 runs across the final two overs of that innings is the joint-most by any batter across the 19th and 20th overs of a T20 innings where ball-by-ball data exists, matched only by Umar Akmal’s 49 runs during an unbeaten 115 in 2016. It’s a data point most “fastest fifty” listicles skip entirely, even though it explains exactly how the 14-ball landmark was possible: Russell wasn’t just clearing the ropes, he was doing it against bowlers who had already lost their length under pressure.
Fastest Centuries in CPL History
Andre Russell hit the fastest century in CPL history, reaching three figures off just 40 balls for Jamaica Tallawahs against Trinbago Knight Riders in 2018, in the same innings that produced his 121* (the second-highest individual score above). Russell came in at 15/3 while chasing 224, was dropped off his very first ball, and then finished unbeaten on 121 with three balls to spare, having also taken a hat-trick earlier in the match while bowling. He had set the previous fastest-century mark himself two seasons earlier with a 42-ball hundred in 2016, beating his own record by two balls.
That means Russell holds three of the marquee CPL batting records simultaneously in different innings: fastest fifty, fastest century, and second-highest individual score — a spread that no other CPL batter matches, and a genuinely useful “did you know” fact for readers comparing players.
Highest Team Totals in CPL History
Trinbago Knight Riders’ 267/2 against Jamaica Tallawahs at Sabina Park in 2019 is the highest team total in CPL history. The Tallawahs’ own 255/5 in 2021 — the innings featuring Russell’s 14-ball fifty — stands as the second-highest total in tournament history, edging out the Tallawahs’ previous best of 241/4 against the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots in 2019.
On the flip side of that same 2021 record-breaking match, the Tallawahs’ 120-run win over St Lucia Kings is the biggest margin of victory by runs in CPL history, surpassing the Patriots’ 119-run win while defending 199 against the Tallawahs in 2015.
Career Records: Most Runs & Most Wickets
Dwayne Bravo is the all-time leading wicket-taker in CPL history with 114 wickets in 89 matches, ahead of Rayad Emrit with 96 wickets and Sunil Narine with 90. Bravo also holds the record for most wickets in a single CPL season, taking 28 wickets in just 13 matches during the 2015 edition, at an average of 11.71 — a strike rate of a wicket roughly every two overs across an entire campaign, which remains the single most dominant bowling season the tournament has produced.
On the batting side, Lendl Simmons has been the CPL’s leading run-scorer across multiple seasons, having represented the Guyana Amazon Warriors, St Kitts and Nevis Patriots, and Jamaica Tallawahs, building his career total past the 2,600-run mark over more than a decade in the competition — well clear of any other batter’s all-time tally.
CPL 2025 Season in Numbers
CPL 2025 concluded on 22 September 2025 with Trinbago Knight Riders winning their fifth title, beating Guyana Amazon Warriors by three wickets in the final. Shai Hope finished as the tournament’s leading run-scorer with 491 runs, while Imran Tahir took a tournament-high 23 wickets and Kieron Pollard was named Player of the Tournament. None of these marks threatened the all-time records above, but the season did produce the current second-highest individual score (Seifert’s 125* off 53 balls), which is worth watching if a similar Powerplay-friendly surface turns up again in 2026.
Records Under Threat in CPL 2026
This is the kind of forward-looking section most competitor pages skip entirely, because it requires tracking active players’ recent form rather than just archiving old numbers.
- Highest individual score (132*): Tim Seifert’s 125* in 2025 came within seven runs of the record on a small ground; if he or another aggressive top-order batter gets a full run of overs on a similar pitch, this is the record most likely to fall next.
- Fastest fifty (14 balls): Records this extreme are rare because they require a batter arriving with 3–4 overs left and a bowling attack that’s already lost control — the conditions that produced Russell’s innings are unusual but not unique, and any recognised finisher walking in during the 17th–18th over of a 200+ chase is a threat.
- Best bowling figures (6/6): The hardest record on this list to break, since it requires both a full spell of wickets and a near-zero economy rate on the same night. No bowler has come within two wickets of matching it since 2013.
- Most career wickets (114, Bravo): Now a retired-player record and effectively locked in unless a long-serving CPL bowler like Narine adds several more seasons.
CPL vs IPL vs BBL: How the Records Compare
A comparison competitor CPL-stat pages rarely include, useful for readers who follow multiple T20 leagues.
| Record Category | CPL | IPL | BBL |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highest individual score | 132* (Brandon King, 2019) | 175* (Chris Gayle, 2013) | Lower than CPL/IPL, generally sub-130 |
| Best bowling figures | 6/6 (Shakib Al Hasan, 2013) | 6/12 (Alzarri Joseph, 2019) | Typically 5-for level |
| Fastest fifty | 14 balls (Andre Russell, 2021) | Faster marks exist (low teens) | Comparable, low-to-mid teens |
| Highest team total | 267/2 (TKR, 2019) | Higher totals recorded (260s–270s+) | Generally lower, sub-250 |
The takeaway: the IPL’s headline batting record still belongs to Chris Gayle’s unbeaten 175 off 66 balls in 2013, a knock that also included the fastest IPL century, reaching 100 off just 30 balls. CPL’s grounds are smaller on average, but its pitches historically offer more assistance to bowlers than the IPL’s flatter subcontinental surfaces — which is exactly why the CPL’s best bowling figures (6/6) are tighter than the IPL’s best (6/12), even though the IPL has been played over many more matches and seasons.
FAQs
Q: Who has scored the highest individual score in CPL history?
Brandon King, with an unbeaten 132 off 72 balls for the Guyana Amazon Warriors against the Barbados Tridents in 2019.
Q: What is the best bowling figure in CPL history?
Shakib Al Hasan’s 6/6 in four overs for Barbados Tridents against Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel in 2013 — still the only six-wicket haul in the tournament’s history.
Q: Who hit the fastest fifty in CPL history?
Andre Russell, off just 14 balls for Jamaica Tallawahs against St Lucia Kings in 2021, broke JP Duminy’s 15-ball record from 2019.
Q: Who has the fastest century in CPL history?
Andre Russell, reaching a hundred off 40 balls for Jamaica Tallawahs against Trinbago Knight Riders in 2018.
Q: What is the highest team total in CPL history?
267/2, scored by Trinbago Knight Riders against Jamaica Tallawahs at Sabina Park in 2019.
Q: Who has taken the most wickets in CPL history?
Dwayne Bravo, with 114 wickets across 89 matches, also holds the single-season record of 28 wickets in 2015.
Q: Who has scored the most runs in CPL history?
Lendl Simmons, whose CPL career run tally exceeds 2,600 across appearances for three franchises.
Q: Which team won the CPL 2025 title?
Trinbago Knight Riders, beating Guyana Amazon Warriors by three wickets in the final on 22 September 2025.
