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The T20 World Cup, first held in 2007, has largely adopted a two-year cycle. Finishing as the very best run scorer in a single version stays a uncommon and prestigious achievement, underlining consistency throughout high-pressure video games in opposition to high groups.
Australia’s Matthew Hayden set the benchmark on the inaugural T20 World Cup in 2007 with 265 runs in six matches. Since then, solely a choose group of elite batters have topped the scoring charts in a single version.
India’s Virat Kohli stays the one cricketer to have completed because the main run-scorer in two totally different T20 World Cups.
Kohli amassed 319 runs within the 2014 version and 296 runs in 2022. His tally of 319 runs in 2014 remains to be the very best by any batter in a single T20 World Cup.
The Indian batter can also be the very best run getter in T20 World Cup historical past with a tally of 1292 in 35 matches.
At the earlier version in 2024, Afghanistan’s Rahmanullah Gurbaz completed as the very best run scorer with 281 runs, guiding his crew to a maiden World Cup semi-final look in any format.
Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan (2009) and Mahela Jayawardene (2010), Australia’s Shane Watson (2012), Bangladesh’s Tamim Iqbal (2016) and Pakistan’s Babar Azam (2021) are the opposite batters who’ve topped the run-scoring charts in a T20 World Cup version.
