Mohammad Hafeez has surpassed all batsmen in T20 cricket this year, adding 415 runs to push India’s Lokesh Rahul to the second position.
Mohammad Hafeez has scored the most runs in International Twenty20 matches this year. The 40-year-old all-rounder, who played a 41-run innings against New Zealand in Napier, scored a total of 415 runs, adding 415 runs to India’s Lokesh. Rahul was pushed to the second position. Mohammad Hafeez is the first Pakistani cricketer after 2013 to score the most runs in a calendar year. Before him, Ahmed Shehzad was at the top with 347 runs in 2017. Mohammad Hafeez made 4 fifties, Babar Azam, David Milan, Lokesh. Rahul and Tim Seifert have also scored 4, 4 half-centuries.
Mohammad Hafeez has hit 20 sixes in international T20 matches this year, followed by Qatar’s Kamran Khan (22) and South Africa’s de Kock (21) with 21 sixes. Only 1 run is needed to become the highest run-getter for Pakistan, he has scored 2323 runs, Shoaib Malik is at the top with 2335 runs.
Mohammad Hafeez has scored 1005 runs in T20 cricket at all levels including leagues and is one of the five batsmen to cross the 1,000-run milestone this year. Meanwhile, Mohammad Rizwan equaled the record for the longest individual inning by any Pakistani wicketkeeper-batsman in the T20 International, with Sarfraz Ahmed scoring an unbeaten 89 against Scotland.
