Former India captain and star batter Virat Kohli was the Men in Blue’s highest run-getter not once but three times in T20 World Cups, showcasing his consistency and dominance on the global stage. His best campaign came in 2014, where he amassed 319 runs, including 4 fifties, at an average of 106.33 in six matches. Kohli is the only Indian batter to date to score over 300 runs in a single edition of the tournament.
The veteran Indian batter had his second-best campaign in 2022, where he aggregated 296 runs, including 4 fifties, at an average of 98.66 in six matches. Kohli fell just 4 runs short of becoming the first batter to score 300 or more runs in two different editions of the tournament.
2016 was Kohli’s third-highest run-scoring T20 World Cup campaign, where he scored 273 runs, including three fifties, in seven matches at an average of 136.5. Overall, Virat Kohli is the leading run-getter in the history of theT20 World Cup, amassing 1292 runs, including 15 fifties, at an average of 58.72 in 35 matches.
Virat Kohli retired from the T20Is after India’s T20 World Cup triumph in 2024.