Most T20I runs in a calendar year by a non-opener. Here are the top 5 batters on the list.
The Irish batter scored 601 runs from 20 innings including 3 half-centuries in 2019. Balbirnie’s strike rate was 143.77.
Nepal batter has scored 626 runs from 17 innings so far in 2022. Airee has 1 century and 4 half-centuries.
The Australian all-rounder scored 627 runs from 20 innings in 2021 including 6 half-centuries. His strike rate of 129.81 is the lowest on the list.
The former Indian skipper scored 641 runs from just 13 innings in 2016 including 7 half-centuries, the most on the list. His strike rate during this period was 140.26.
The in-form middle-order batter has scored 658 runs from 18 innings so far including 1 century and 5 half-centuries.
Suryakumar also became the 1st Indian to score 500-plus runs in T20I middle overs in a calendar year. Surya has 524 runs now. He broke Kohli's record of 381 runs.
Suryakumar reached his fifty from just 18 balls making it the joint second-fastest for India in T20Is. It is also the third-fastest against the Proteas.
Suryakumar has completed 50 T20I sixes in 2022. He became the first T20I batter in the world to achieve the milestone in a calendar year.
Suryakumar got to his 1,000 T20I runs from just 573 balls breaking Glenn Maxwell's record (604 balls). Surya has a T20I strike rate of 177.26.