In their very first match in T20 World Cup 2021, Pakistan made a great start by beating India by 10 wickets. Mohammad Rizwan played an unbeaten 79 to guide his team to victory. With this brilliant innings of Rizwan, Pakistan also ended India’s dominance over Pakistan in the World Cup since 1992. Let’s know in the statistics this year. How Rizwan has been consistently performing brilliantly.
Rizwan is the highest T20 International run scorer this year
This year has been great for Mohammad Rizwan. He has scored 831 runs in 15 innings of 18 matches played in 2021 at an unbelievable average of 103.87. Meanwhile, his strike rate (140.37) has also been impressive. Rizwan is the highest T20 International run-scorer this year. Rizwan’s captain Babar Azam (591) is second in terms of scoring the most runs this year.
Rizwan is the most unbeaten batsman this year
Rizwan, who opened the innings in most of the matches this year, has ended the match. He has been unbeaten in seven of the 15 innings he has played this year and is the batsman with the most number of unbeaten runs this year. Rizwan has hit the most fours this year. Rizwan, who hit 28 sixes, is also second in terms of sixes and is only slightly behind Evin Lewis (31).
Rizwan has scored the most eight fifties this year
Rizwan has scored the most number of fifties this year with eight. Four batsmen who have scored five half-centuries each are joint second in terms of his most fifties this year. Apart from this, Rizwan also scored his first century in T20 Internationals this year. He is one of the eight batsmen to score T20 International centuries this year. He has also been dismissed twice this year for zero.
Rizwan’s T20 career has been brilliant
The 29-year-old wicket-keeper batsman has so far scored 1,144 runs in 44 matches at an impressive average of 52.0 and a strike rate of 130.0. He has also hit a century and nine half-centuries with the highest score of 104*. He has hit 102 fours and 33 sixes in his T20 career. Eight out of nine half-centuries of Rizwan’s career have come this year.
