KANDY: Pakistan opener Sahibzada Farhan on Saturday broke Virat Kohli’s 12-year-old record for most runs in a single edition of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.
Farhan, who amassed 283 runs in five innings against Sri Lanka at the Ballegale International Cricket Stadium, reached the milestone when he hit Dasun Shanaka for a boundary in the first delivery of the sixth over to reach his 37th run.
As a result, the 29-year-old Kohli surpassed his 2014 Men’s T20 World Cup haul of 319 runs at a mammoth average of 106.33.
The elusive list features Pakistan’s Babar Azam and Sri Lanka’s iconic pair of Thilakaratna Dilshan and Mahela Jayawardene.
Most Runs in Men’s T20 World Cup Edition
- Sahibzada Farhan (Pakistan) – 337 runs in 2026
- Virat Kohli (India) – 319 runs in 2014
- Thilakaratna Dilshan (Sri Lanka) – 317 in 2009
- Babar Assam (Pakistan) – 303 in 2021
- Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka) – 302 in 2010
Meanwhile, when this story was filed, Burhan scored his third half-century in the 20-team tournament to raise his tally to 337 runs as the 2009 champions were 120/0.
He also scored an unbeaten century in the group-stage match against Namibia, which marked his fourth fifty-plus score, helping him join the elusive list of batsmen with the most fifty-plus scores in a single edition of the Men’s T20 World Cup, which includes Australia’s Matthew Hayden and India’s Kohli Babbar.
Kohli, Babbar and Hayden all registered four fifties in the same edition of the tournament, with the former reaching the milestone twice.