Most Runs in T20 Cricket Historical past: For the reason that fast enlargement of the Twenty20 cricket format from the mid-2000s, a bunch of worldwide batters have emerged because the format’s superheroes, plundering runs for his or her nationwide groups in addition to franchise leagues throughout the globe. West Indies celebrity continues to stay because the benchmark for the format, having smashed a whopping 22 centuries and 1056 sixes in T20 cricket. With 14,562 runs in 463 matches throughout 17 years, Gayle stays the main run-getter within the format.
India’s Virat Kohli might quickly shut in on Gayle as he’s on the point of changing into solely the fifth batter to achieve 13,000 runs throughout the ongoing IPL 2025 season. Kohli additionally leads the charts amongst Indian batters by way of centuries, smashing 9 in his profession, eight of which have come within the IPL. Kohli had beforehand gone previous the ten,000-run mark T20 milestone throughout the 2021 IPL, reaching the feat in 299 innings because the third-quickest batter after Babar Azam and Gayle.
Over 8000 of Kohli’s T20 runs have come within the IPL the place the Royal Challengers Bengaluru star continues to prime the batting charts.
Most T20 runs in historical past
| Participant | Span | Mat | Runs | HS | Ave | SR | 100 | 50 |
| Chris Gayle | 2005-2022 | 463 | 14562 | 175* | 36.22 | 144.75 | 22 | 88 |
| Alex Hales | 2009-2025 | 494 | 13610 | 119* | 30.04 | 145.28 | 7 | 85 |
| Shoaib Malik | 2005-2025 | 555 | 13557 | 95* | 36.05 | 127.29 | 0 | 83 |
| Kieron Pollard | 2006-2025 | 695 | 13537 | 104 | 31.33 | 150.19 | 1 | 61 |
| Virat Kohli | 2007-2025 | 401 | 12983 | 122* | 41.47 | 134.20 | 9 | 98 |
| David Warner | 2007-2025 | 399 | 12913 | 135* | 37 | 140.23 | 8 | 108 |
| Jos Buttler | 2009-2025 | 436 | 12206 | 124 | 34.97 | 145.27 | 8 | 85 |
| Rohit Sharma | 2007-2025 | 451 | 11851 | 121* | 30.7 | 134.7 | 8 | 78 |
