Statsman: Rohit Sharma tops against Windies

Rohit Sharma tops the chart for scoring most number of runs against the West Indies in T20I cricket

India skipper Rohit Sharma smashed a fluent 40 in the first T20I against West Indies.

585   Rohit Sharma's run-aggregate against the West Indies in T20I cricket. This is now the most runs scored against the Caribbean side in this format. His teammate Virat Kohli is second in this list. In the series against the West Indies, they both surpassed the previous record tally of 570 runs held by Pakistani Babar Azam. 

Highest run-aggregates against the West Indies in T20 cricket

Runs	Batsman	For	Mts	Inns	Ave	100/50	HS
585	Rohit Sharma	India	18	18	39.00	1/4	111*
570	Virat Kohli	India	14	13	57.00	0/6	94*
540	Babar Azam	Pakistan	17	14	49.09	0/5	97*
423	Alex Hales	England	13	13	35.25	0/3	99
400	David Warner	Australia	10	10	44.44	0/4	89*

Note:

The unbeaten knock of 52 in the second match in Kolkata on February 18, 2022 was Kohli's sixth fifty-plus score against the West Indies. This is now the most by any batter against this opponent. Previously, Babar Azam had registered five fifties, while Rohit Sharma had one century and four fifties.

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4               The number of batters who have dominated in the “leading run-getter in T20I cricket” category in men's cricket since 2009. This list elite group includes two New Zealanders and two Indians. Ever since Kiwi Brendon McCullum became T20I cricket’s leading run-getter on February 15, 2009 at the Sydney Cricket Ground, he has managed to hold on to this record for a record nine years and one day, until former teammate Martin Guptill surpassed his record tally of 2140 runs in Auckland on February 16, 2018. With McCullum’s retirement from this format in June 2015, the record has been frequently changing hands among Guptill and Indians Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. In the first match of the series against Sri Lanka in Lucknow Rohit Sharma once again became T20I cricket’s leading run-getter by going ahead of Martin Guptill’s 3299 runs. Following these two is Virat Kohli with 3296 runs. Before McCullum only five other batters have held the record from Feb 2005 to Feb 2009.

Batters in men’s cricket who were the leading run-getters in T20 international cricket

            

Runs	Batter	For	Against	Venue	Date	Record held for	Final T20I tally
7	Michael Clarke	Aus	NZ	Auckland	Feb 17, 2005	5 mins	488
32	Andrew Symonds	Aus	NZ	Auckland	Feb 17, 2005	40 mins	337
98	Ricky Ponting	Aus	NZ	Auckland	Feb 17, 2005	1y, 7days	401
172	Graeme Smith	SA	Aus	Johannesburg	Feb 24, 2006	2y, 7m, 17 days	982
375	Misbah-ul-Haq	Pak	SL	King City	Oct 11, 2008	4m, 4 days	788
457	Brendon McCullum	NZ	Aus	Sydney	Feb 15, 2009	9y, 1 day	2140
2188	Martin Guptill	NZ	Aus	Auckland	Feb 16, 2018	11m, 23 days
2288	Rohit Sharma	Ind	NZ	Auckland	Feb 8, 2019	7m, 10 days
2441	Virat Kohli	Ind	SA	Mohali	Sep 18, 2019	4 days
2443	Rohit Sharma	Ind	SA	Bengaluru	Sep 22, 2019	15 mins
2450	Virat Kohli	Ind	SA	Bengaluru	Sep 22, 2019	1m, 12 days
2452	Rohit Sharma	Ind	Ban	Delhi	Nov 3, 2019	1m, 6 days
2563	Virat Kohli	Ind	WI	Thiruvananthapuram	Dec 8, 2019	3 days
2633	Rohit Sharma	Ind	WI	Mumbai WS	Dec 11, 2019	27 days
2663	Virat Kohli	Ind	SL	Indore	Jan 7, 2020	1y, 10m, 12 days	+3296
3248	Martin Guptill	NZ	Ind	Ranchi	Nov 19, 2021	3m, 5 days	+3299
3307	Rohit Sharma	Ind	SL	Lucknow	Feb 24, 2022	3* days	+3313

+ Three of the leading run-getters in T20I cricket  

Note:

** On Dec 8, 2019 (vs WI in Thiruvananthapuram) Rohit (2562) went ahead of Kohli’s tally of 2544 runs before the former went ahead by one run (2563) in the same match.

** Then, in the next match (vs WI in Mumbai WS) on Dec 11, 2019, Rohit again went ahead with 2633 runs. However, Kohli equalled Rohit’s tally of 2633.

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89           The number of runs made by Ishan Kishan against Sri Lanka in the Lucknow T20I on Feb 24, 2022. This was Kishan's highest score in international career. This is now the highest by an Indian wicket-keeper in this format. He bettered the previous score of 65 by Rishabh Pant against the West Indies at Providence on Aug 6, 2019.

Highest individual scores by Indian wicket-keepers in T20I cricket

Runs	Wicket-keeper	Agst	Venue	Date	Result
89	Ishan Kishan	SL	Lucknow	Feb 24, 2022	W
65*	Rishabh Pant	WI	Providence	Aug 6, 2019	W
57*	K. L. Rahul	NZ	Auckland	Jan 26, 2020	W
56	M. S. Dhoni	Eng	Bangalore	Feb 1, 2017	W
56	K. L. Rahul	NZ	Auckland	Jan 24, 2020	W

 

Highest scores by Indian wicket-keepers in each international format

Format	Runs	Wicket-keeper	Agst	Venue	Date	Result
Tests	224	M. S. Dhoni	Aus	Chennai	Feb 25,  2013	Won
ODIs	183*	M. S. Dhoni	SL	Jaipur	Oct 31,  2005	Won
T20Is	89	Ishan Kishan	SL	Lucknow	Feb 24,  2022	Won

 

4            The number of fielders to claim fifty or more catches in T20 international cricket. Rohit Sharma, in the second T20I against Sri Lanka in Dharamsala, became the latest to achieve this.

Most catches by fieldsmen in T20Is

Cts	Fielder	For	Matches	50th catch as fielder
69	David Miller	SA/World XI	95	In Bengaluru vs India on Sept 22, 2019 in his 71stmatch
64	Martin Guptill	NZ	112	in Hamilton vs Pakistan on Dec 20, 2020 in his 93rd match
50	Shoaib Malik	Pak/ICC	124	in Centurion vs South Africa on Feb 6, 2019 in his 111th match
50	Rohit Sharma	Ind	124	in Dharamsala vs Sri Lanka on Feb 26, 2022 in his 124th match

 

7        India's consecutive T20I bilateral series victories at home. Since defeating Bangladesh 2-1 in November 2019, India has won the series against six more sides. This is now the second-best performance by a home side, just one short of Australia's record tally of eight home series wins from January 2006 to February 2010.  Before the start of this home series winning sequence since November 2019, India, in September 2019, had drawn the three-match series one-all against South Africa (with the deciding final match in Dharamsala being washed out) and before the South African series, India had lost to Australia 0-2 (with one match in Guwahati washed out). This means India has not lost its last eight T20I series at home.

India's last seven consecutive bilateral T20I series victories at home

#	Month, year	Opponent	Series result
1.	Nov 2019	Bangladesh	2-1 (3)
2.	Dec 2019	West Indies	2-1 (3)
3.	Jan 2020	Sri Lanka	2-0 (3)
4.	Mar 2021	England	3-2 (5)
5.	Nov 2021	New Zealand	3-0 (3)
6.	Feb 2022	West Indies	3-0 (3)
7.	Feb 2022	Sri Lanka	3-0 (3)

Note: It is indeed unique for any international side to register three series clean-sweeps in the same season.                  

 

Most consecutive bilateral T20I series victories at home

8	Australia	Jan 2006	Feb 2010
7+	India	Nov 2019	to date (Feb 2022)
4	England	Sep 2014	Jul 2016
4	New Zealand	Jan 2014	Jan 2017
4*	New Zealand	Nov 2020	to date (Apr 2021)

Note: During Australia's eight series winning streak (from 2006 to 2010) they had played six single-match series and two-double match series, which means none of these was a three or more match series.

 

3      The number of T20I sides to win 12 consecutive T20I matches. India, in the final match, in Dharamsala became the latest to achieve this unique record.

Most consecutive outright T20I victories

Wins	Team	From	To
12	Afghanistan	Feb 2018	Sep 2019
12	Romania	Oct 2020	+Sep 2021
12	India	Nov 2021	+Feb 2022
11	Afghanistan	Mar 2016	Mar 2017
11	Uganda	Sep 2021	Oct 2021
9	Pakistan	Jul 2018	Nov 2018

+ consecutive victories in progress

 

8      The number of occasions India has managed to win all its matches in a three-or-more match T20I series. India, this season, has managed to do this against three international sides — New Zealand, West Indies and Sri Lanka. 

India winning every match in a T20I bilateral series

Series result	Opponent	Venue	Season
5-0	New Zealand	NZ	2019/20
3-0	Australia	Aus	2015/16
3-0	Sri Lanka	Ind	2017/18
3-0	West Indies	Ind	2018/19
3-0	West Indies	US/WI	2019
3-0	New Zealand	Ind	2021/22
3-0	West Indies	Ind	2021/22
3-0	Sri Lanka	Ind	2021/22

 

All records are correct and updated until Feb 27, 2022