Chris Gayle and Babar Azam
Babar Azam Completes 11000 runs in T20 Cricket: The Indian cricket team, under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, won the T20 World Cup 2024 title on West Indies soil in June this year. With Team India becoming the world champion, captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli said goodbye to T20I cricket. When Rohit Sharma retired from the shortest format of cricket, he was the highest run-scorer in T20I. After Rohit, Virat was second in terms of scoring most runs in T20I. Now almost 6 months have passed since both the batsmen took retirement from T20I cricket, taking advantage of which Babar Azam is gradually getting closer to the world record.
World record on target of Babar Azam
Actually, Babar Azam played an inning of 31 runs in 20 balls during the second T20I match on the South Africa tour. In this way, he has come very close to Rohit Sharma’s figure of highest T20I runs. Babar Azam now needs only 9 runs to break Rohit’s record. In such a situation, there is every possibility of Rohit’s world record being broken in the next match.
Batsmen who scored the most runs in T20I cricket
- Rohit Sharma- 4231
- Babar Azam- 4223
- Virat Kohli- 4188
- Paul Sterling- 3655
- Martin Guptill- 3531
- Mohammad Rizwan- 3414
Even though Babar could not break Rohit Sharma’s world record of most T20I runs in this second T20I, he shattered Chris Gayle’s world record by scoring 11 runs. As soon as Babar completed 11 runs, the world record of fastest 11000 runs in T20 cricket was registered in his name. Babar achieved this great feat by defeating Universe Boss Chris Gayle. Babar achieved this milestone in his 299th innings while Chris Gayle had completed 11 thousand T20 runs in 314 innings.
Fastest batsman to complete 11000 runs (innings) in T20 cricket
- 299 – Babar Azam*
- 314 – Chris Gayle
- 330 – David Warner
- 337 – Virat Kohli
- 363 – Aaron Finch
- 376 – Jos Buttler
- 386 – James Vince
- 390 – Alex Helms
- 408 – Rohit Sharma
- 412 – Shoaib Malik
