PAK vs NZ: Pakistan’s senior wicket-keeper batter Mohammad Rizwan, on Saturday evening, added one other feather to his wonderful cap after he turned the quickest batter to attain 3000 T20I runs. The batter achieved this feat throughout Pakistan’s second T20I fixture towards New Zealand on the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Saturday.
Rizwan scored an unbeaten 45 runs in 34 deliveries within the 2nd PAK vs NZ T20I on the Pindi Cricket Stadium, which additionally noticed him break the report of quickest batter to 3000 or extra T20I runs.
The seasoned batter required 19 runs to achieve the 3000 runs to finish the milestone. Rizwan took simply 79 innings to attain 3000 or extra runs within the T20I format.
With Rizwan scoring 3000 T20I runs in simply 79 innings, he left behind the likes of Virat Kohli and Babar Azam, who’ve achieved the identical feat in 81 T20I innings.
Notably, Babar Azam achieved this feat in 2022 in Lahore, whereas Virat Kohli received the feather to his adorned cap in 2021 in Ahmedabad.
Following his exploits within the PAK vs NZ 2nd T20I, Mohammad Rizwan has develop into the eighth worldwide batter to attain 3000 runs within the shortest format of the sport.
Rizwan has 3026 runs to his identify in 79 innings at a mean of 49.60. Nevertheless, his strike price has been on the slower aspect, which reads – 127.62.
PAK vs NZ: Quickest to 3000 T20I Runs Record
Up to now, eight worldwide gamers, together with Mohammad Rizwan, have scored 3000 or extra runs in T20I cricket. The primary one to attain this milestone was Indian batting maestro Virat Kohli. He was adopted by New Zealand’s Martin Guptill, who took 101 innings to cross the milestone in 2021.
In the meantime, Indian captain Rohit Sharma took 108 T20I innings to achieve 3000 runs within the format. Under is the checklist of quickest to achieve 3000 runs in T20Is:
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Stats: ESPNcricinfo
