New Delhi: On the night of Thursday, 11 November, Australia defeated Pakistan in a very exciting match and broke Pakistan’s dream of winning the ICC T20 World Cup title and reaching the final itself. But in this match, Pakistan’s swashbuckling player Mohammad Rizwan did such an amazing last night that no batsman in the world had done it before. Mohammad Rizwan has become the first batsman in the world to score 1000 runs in a calendar year in the history of T20 International cricket.
Earlier, the record of scoring the most runs in a calendar year was also in the name of Mohammad Rizwan. It is worth noting that the second batsman to score the most runs in a calendar year of T20 International cricket is Babar Azam of the Pakistan cricket team. Babar Azam has scored 826 runs this year and Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan has scored 1033 runs.
Paul Sterling is at number three in terms of most runs in a calendar year, who scored a total of 748 runs in 2019. At the fourth position is Ireland’s Kevin O’Brien, who scored 729 runs in T International cricket in 2019. In fifth place is Maxwell Patrick O’Dowd of the Netherlands, whose bat scored 702 runs in the year 2019 itself.
Talking about Indian cricketers, in this case, Shikhar Dhawan is the highest run-scorer in T20 International cricket in a calendar year. The history of cricket tells that Shikhar Dhawan scored 689 runs in the year 2018. In this case, Virat Kohli is the second batsman of the Indian cricket team, who has scored the most runs in a calendar year. Virat had scored 641 runs in the year 2016.
Mohammad Rizwan’s performance in the latest World Cup
In the second semi-final against Australia last night, Mohammad Rizwan played a tremendous inning of 67 runs in 52 balls. In this innings, 4 sixes and 3 brilliant fours also came from his bat. It is worth noting that Rizwan made a great partnership of 71 runs for the first wicket with the captain of the team Babar Azam.
In this latest World Cup, 281 runs came off the bat of Mohammad Rizwan. Pakistan captain Babar Azam has scored the most runs in this T20 World Cup Tournament. Azam scored 303 runs in 6 matches played. It is also worth noting that in this latest World Cup, Pakistan’s batsmen are the only two batsmen in the top two players in the list of most run-scorers.
