Chennai: MA. Zimbabwe captain Sikandar Raza added another feather to his cap on Thursday during the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 Super Eight match against India at the Chidambaram Stadium.
Raza’s 31 off just 21 balls in Zimbabwe’s 72-run defeat against India became the first from the country to break the 3000-run barrier in men’s T20Is, an elusive feat in the shorter format.
The 39-year-old now has 3016 runs in 127 innings at an average of 26.22 and a strike rate of 136.28 with the help of a century and 16 fifties.
As a result, the Zimbabwe captain became the 14th batsman to score at least three thousand runs in men’s T20Is, joining the likes of Pakistan’s Babar Azam, India’s Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma and Australia’s David Warner and Aaron Finch.
Most Runs in Men’s T20I Matches
- Babar Assam (Pakistan) – 4596 runs in 136 innings
- Rohit Sharma (India) – 4231 runs in 151 innings
- Virat Kohli (India) – 4188 runs in 117 innings
- Jos Buttler (England) – 4012 runs in 141 innings
- Paul Stirling (Ireland) – 3895 runs in 160 innings
- Martin Guptill (New Zealand) – 3531 runs in 118 innings
- Mohammad Rizwan (Pakistan) – 3414 runs in 93 innings
- Muhammad Wasim (UAE) – 3338 runs in 97 innings
- David Warner (Australia) – 3277 runs in 110 innings
- Suryakumar Yadav (India) – 3243 runs in 104 innings
- Virandeep Singh (Malaysia) – 3180 runs in 104 innings
- Aaron Finch (Australia) – 3120 runs in 103 innings
- Quinton de Kock (South Africa) – 3085 runs in 107 innings
- Sikandar Raza (Zimbabwe) – 3016 runs in 127 innings*
Also, with 104 wickets in men’s T20Is, Raza is one of only five all-rounders to score a hundred wickets and a thousand runs in the shortest format, apart from Pakistan’s Shatab Khan, Afghanistan’s Mohammad Nabi, India’s Hardik Pandya and Malaysia’s Virandeep Singh.