Suryakumar Yadav becomes First Indian to hit 1,000 T20I runs in a Calendar Year

Category : Sports Published on: November 08 2022

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Suryakumar Yadav created history on November 6 as he became the first Indian batter to complete 1000 runs in T20Is in a calendar year.
The 32-year-old right-handed batter achieved the milestone against Zimbabwe during Team India’s final Super 12 match of the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
He has now joined Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan on the elite list of batters who have scored more than 1000 T20I runs in a calendar year.
Rizwan, who has 924 runs in 23 T20Is this year, scored a total of 1326 runs in 29 matches in 2021.
Surya is only the second player in T20I history to have scored more than 1000 runs in one calendar year
He has played a total of 39 T20I matches in total for India, in which he has scored 1270 runs.