The advent of T20 cricket has changed the cricketing landscape big time. T20s have brought in an enthralling sense of entertainment for cricket fans and they’re just in love with the shortest format of the game. T20 is all about batsman’s show and for bowlers you can’t really feel anything besides pity.
The greatest batsmen in the modern day cricket have offered a lot of entertainment to the cricket fans. T20s are crazy run feasts as runs are scored in plenty in this shortest format of the game.
Here’s the list of leading run getters in the shortest format of the game. On top of the list is the explosive former Kiwis batsman Brendon McCullum with 2140 runs from 71 matches. Next on the list is the Indian captain Virat Kohli who has 1956 runs from 55 matches.
Virat Kohli has a staggering average of 52.86 which is the highest average by any batsman in the shortest format. However Virat Kohli is yet to score a ton in T20s international.
Here’s the list of leading run scorers in T20 internationals
1. Brendon McCullum: 2140 runs
2. Virat Kohli: 1956 runs
3. Dilshan: 1889 runs
4. Martin Guptill: 1856 runs
5. Shoaib Malik: 1821 runs
6. Mohammad Shahzad : 1779 runs
7. JP Duminy : 1700 runs
8. David Warner : 1696 runs
9. Umar Akmal: 1690 Runs
10. AB De Villiers : 1672 runs
