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T20 World Cup 2021 | Mohammad Rizwan breaks six-year-long batting record of Chris Gayle

There is no stopping Pakistan and their opener Mohammed Rizwan, who is putting on performance after performance in the ongoing edition of the T20 World Cup.

He has broken the six-year-old record of most runs in a calendar year set by West Indies’ Chris Gayle in the year 2015 when he had piled on 1665 runs in 26 innings. Rizwan was just five runs away from surpassing Gayle’s tally and has gone on to score 1676 runs while playing tonight’s game against Scotland.

His runs have come for his domestic side Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Multan Sultans in the Pakistan Super League and Pakistan national side.

Earlier, he had surpassed India’s skipper Virat Kohli’s record as the batsman with third-highest tally in a calendar year that he achieved in the year 2016 by scoring 1610 runs.

Rizwan has been in top-notch form in the T20 format since the time has was promoted up the order along with his skipper Babar Azam. He has played an instrumental role in leading Pakistan to the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup this year. He started off the campaign with a brilliant in the first game and led Pakistan to their first ever win over India in a World Cup game

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