With this, he went past former Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara's earlier record for most centuries in a single edition -- Sangakkara had scored four hundreds in the 2015 edition.
Fittingly, Ikram Ali Khil broke Sachin Tendulkar's record for the highest score by an 18-year-old at an ICC Cricket World Cup at Headingley, where the Little Master once broke the mould as Yorkshire's first overseas player in 1992.
The World T20 Championships has seen a plethora of records created since its inception in 2007. Rediff.com gives you a glance of all the interesting statistics from the tournament!
Images from the World Cup Pool A match between Australia and Sri Lanka at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Dismissed for 62 in the first innings, the tourists, replying to Sri Lanka's first innings of 451 for 6 declared, were 69 for 4 at close on day 2 of the second Test.
Mahela Jayawardene remained unbeaten on 49 in his farewell innings after spinner Rangana Herath's career best figures of nine for 127 gave Sri Lanka control of the second Test against Pakistan on Saturday.
Riyan Parag revealed that he was struggling with ill-health for the last three days.
Upul Tharanga scored his second one-day international century to anchor Sri Lanka's 255 for seven off 50 overs in the third one-day international against New Zealand in Christchurch.
Sri Lanka's Upul Chandana, Tillakaratne Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara have been fined for using obscene and abusive language on Sunday.
Images from Indian Premier League match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Delhi Daredevils in Hyderabad on Saturday.
Aussie skipper Ricky Ponting regained the top spot in the LG ICC Test rankings for batsmen after Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara slipped two places to move to the third position.
Cook becomes sixth batsman to score 12,000 Test runs
West Indies have won this year's Spirit of Cricket award after sending both their men's and women's teams to tour England during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) announced.
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India's skipper Virat Kohli said the toss proved "crucial" and his batsmen could have played "smarter cricket", as they went down to Sri Lanka by two wickets in their Asia Cup encounter.
Faisalabad Wolves rode on skipper Misbah-ul-Haq's unbeaten 93 to beat Kandurata Maroons by 10 runs and post a consolation win in an inconsequential qualifying match of the Champions League Twenty20 in Mohali, on Friday.
Statistical highlights of Sunday's first cricket one-dayer between India and New Zealand in Napier.
Sri Lanka's bowlers bundled out England for 185 before the hosts chased down the target with eight wickets to spare in the rain-hit second One-day international on Saturday to take a 2-0 lead in the seven-match series.
The Committee of Administrators (COA) on Friday assured that all six north eastern states will be playing Ranji Trophy as individual units next season with Board of Control for Cricket in India GM (Game Development), Ratnakar Shetty, given charge of their smooth integration.
England captain Alastair Cook broke legendary batsman Sachin's Tendulkar's record to become the youngest batsman in the history of the game to score 10,000 Test runs.
The MCC once again clarified that if a bowler attempts to run out a batsman at the non-striker's end, the bowler was well within his rights and it was the batter who was at fault.
Farveez Maharoof's five-wicket haul, including a hat-trick, and half-centuries from Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene saw Sri Lanka crush India by seven wickets in the sixth and final group match of the Asia Cup 2010, in Dambulla, on Tuesday.
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has won this year's LG People's Choice Award, thus becoming only the second Indian cricketer to win the coveted prize, after just-retired Sachin Tendulkar.
It was a fitting farewell for Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara who pulled the curtains on their T20 careers with a memorable triumph at the ICC World T20 and their teammates today dedicated it to the two retiring legends of Sri Lankan cricket.
Images from Sunday's India-Sri Lanka tri-series match at the Sher-e-Bangla National stadium.
Heaping praise on Lahiru Thirimanne for his match-winning hundred against Pakistan in the final Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews said the youngster is find of the tournament for them.
Rediff.com takes a look at five turning points of the Asia Cup match match between Sri Lanka and India.
# Mahendra Singh Dhoni has recorded a half-century and effected three dismissals in an innings in the same IPL match for the first time.
Virat Kohli bagged the International Cricketer of the Year award while Pakistan was named as the Best International Cricket Team in the 2011-2012 season at the CEAT cricket awards in New Delhi.
Sri Lanka has picked four specialist spinners to play Australia in the upcoming ODI tri-series as well as Twenty20 Internationals.
Kohli reached the 11,000 mark in 222 innings -- beating the previous record held by compatriot Sachin Tendulkar who took 276 innings to rack up that total.
India's batting coach Sanjay Bangar defend Rohit Sharma's repeated failures in Test cricket, saying the Mumbai batsman deserves the same patience Sri Lanka had with their greats, Marvan Atapattu and Kumar Sangakkara.
Images from the ICC Champions Trophy match between England and Sri Lanka in London on Thursday.
For ICC Women's Player of the Decade, Ellyse Perry (Australia), Meg Lanning (Australia), Suzie Bates (New Zealand), Stafanie Taylor (West Indies), Mithali Raj (India), Sarah Taylor (England) have been nominated.
In-form India batsman Virat Kohli, the leading run-scorer in ODIs this year along with Sachin Tendulkar has been nominated for the top ICC Awards 2012.
After winning just one game in IPL 2021 before Monday's match against the Rajasthan Royals in Dubai, Sunrisers Hyderabad had a lot to cheer when they ended their losing streak with an emphatic victory.
Gujarat Titans will be seeking to cap their dream debut season by winning the title
Five cricketers, including India's World Cup winning skipper M S Dhoni, were on Thursday shortlisted for the second edition of ICC's 'People's Choice Awards'.
Controversy erupted in the IPL match between Deccan Chargers and Mumbai Indians in Visakhapatnam on Monday with the latter team's captain Harbhajan Singh having a heated and prolonged arguement with the field umpires who committed a mistake in not giving a home side batsman out.
