Most runs scored in a Twenty20 International career (male)

Rohit Sharma (India) amassed 4,231 runs in 159 T20 International (T20I) matches (151 innings) played between 19 September 2007 and 29 June 2024. Sharma announced his retirement from T20Is after India beat South Africa by seven runs in the Men’s T20 World Cup final in Bridgetown, Barbados, on 29 June 2024.

Pakistan’s Babar Azam (4,192 runs since 2016) and India’s Virat Kohli (4,188 runs since 2010) have also reached the landmark of 4,000 runs in cricket’s shortest format. Kohli also announced his retirement from T20I on 29 June 2024; it left the prolific Azam as Sharma’s likely successor.

Just one batter has scored more runs than Sharma’s 4,231 in T20Is: New Zealand opener Suzie Bates (4,584, in 168 innings). Highlights of Sharma’s T20I career, scoring at an average of 32.05 runs per innings, include five hundreds and a top score of 121 not out (vs Afghanistan on 17 January 2024), 32 fifties, 205 sixes, and winning the T20 World Cup twice, in 2007 and 2024.