5 Batters With Most International Runs In 2024

5 Batters With Most International Runs In 2024 [Source: @englandcricket/x]5 Batters With Most International Runs In 2024 [Source: @englandcricket/x]

The year 2024 has bore witness to a surge of remarkable individual batting performances in international cricket. Certain players, however, have managed to ace consistent run-making in each of the three forms of the game.

Here, we put a spotlight on five batters who have accumulated the highest number of runs across all three international formats.

5. Ben Duckett – 1,012 runs

Ben Duckett – 1,012 runs [Source: @ICC/x]Ben Duckett – 1,012 runs [Source: @ICC/x]

Ben Duckett, one of England’s leading BazBall radicals at the top of the order, accrued 1,012 runs within the first nine months of the year 2024 from 26 innings across all formats. The attacking left-hander started off his year by accumulating 343 of those runs on testing Indian conditions. Duckett added 364 more runs to his tally off the subsequent six home Tests against West Indies and Sri Lanka.

Aided with three half-centuries and a scintillating ton at Rajkot, the dynamic English opener racked up 707 runs in 2024 Tests at a strike rate of nearly 90. In ODIs, Ben Duckett mounted 305 runs from five matches against Australia with a century and two additional fifty-plus scores as part of his 1,012-run collection.

4. Yashasvi Jaiswal – 1,099 runs

Yashasvi Jaiswal – 1,099 runs [Source: @BCCI/x]Yashasvi Jaiswal – 1,099 runs [Source: @BCCI/x]

India’s batting sensation Yashasvi Jaiswal whacked successive Test-winning double hundreds against England earlier this year. Tallying 712 runs across five matches to headline India’s 4-1 triumph, Jaiswal finds himself as the year’s third highest run-maker in Tests with more than 800 runs overall in eight matches.

The dashing opener also made 293 runs in his eight T20I appearances for India, at an astronomical top-order strike rate of 172.35. Yashasvi Jaiswal’s no-holds-barred approach even fetched him turbulent fifty-plus scores against Afghanistan and Zimbabwe. Overall, Jaiswal has minted 1,099 runs in 21 innings spanning 16 matches, at a prolific average of 57.84 in the first nine months of 2024.

3. Pathum Nissanka – 1,165 runs

Pathum Nissanka – 1,165 runs [Source: @OfficialSLC/x]Pathum Nissanka – 1,165 runs [Source: @OfficialSLC/x]

Sri Lankan top-order batter Pathum Nissanka has accumulated 1,165 runs from 28 all-format innings of the year 2024 until the start of October. After missing a handful of matches against Zimbabwe in January, he belted 343 runs in three ODIs against Afghanistan, which included a match-winning double ton and a century. Nissanka also clobbered a 30-ball 60 in one of the T20Is later in the same month against the same opponents.

The 26-year-old cracked his third century of the year the following month with a run-a-ball 114 in Chattogram. While Nissanka has scored 598 runs in nine matches to lead the run-scoring charts of the year’s ODI platform, the cricketer also drew considerable success in Tests, with his 127* at The Oval being the headline of his 247-run collection.

2. Kamindu Mendis – 1,210 runs

Kamindu Mendis – 1,210 runs [Source: @ICC/x]Kamindu Mendis – 1,210 runs [Source: @ICC/x]

Rising Sri Lankan star Kamindu Mendis seems to be making the most of his first full-fledged year in international cricket. In Test cricket alone, the youngster has racked up 943 runs in just seven matches at a Bradman-esque batting average of 94.30.

Demonstrating his ability with twin hundreds in Sylhet against Bangladesh, Kamindu narrowly missed his third Test century the following match in Chattogram. With no regards for conditions or opponents, the youngster also overcame a hostile English attack in England by making 267 runs in three matches. He plundered another 309 runs in two home Tests against New Zealand with two match-winning centuries.

Overall, Kamindu Mendis has listed 1,210 runs in 24 innings (20 matches) of the year at a prolific average of 60.50.

1. Kusal Mendis – 1,290 runs

Kusal Mendis – 1,290 runs [Source: @OfficialSLC/x]Kusal Mendis – 1,290 runs [Source: @OfficialSLC/x]

Sri Lankan veteran Kusal Mendis has arguably emerged as the quintessential all-format winner of the year 2024 with the bat. In T20Is, he reaped in 457 runs from 15 matches with an astonishing strike rate of nearly 135, having scored runs against Bangladesh, India and at the 2024 T20 World Cup.

Mendis also cracked 453 runs in 12 ODI matches at an impressive average of 41.18. He made four half-centuries in the process, with three of them resulting in emphatic victories for Sri Lanka. In seven Test matches, he scored 380 runs at a strike rate of nearly 70, featuring a match-winning 106* against New Zealand. Overall, Kusal Mendis has tallied 1,290 runs in 34 matches with one century and eight half-centuries.