DA Warner completes 10000 runs in the history of Twenty20 games
DA Warner completed 10000 runs in T20 games when he was on 40 during the course of his knock of 57 in the game between Sunrisers and Chennai Super Kings at Delhi on 28 Apr 2021. At the end of the game his run aggregate read 10017. He has represented the following teams in Twenty20 games. Australia, Australia A, Delhi Daredevils, Durham, Middlesex, New South Wales, Northern Districts, St Lucia Stars, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Sydney Sixers, Sydney Thunder, Sylhet Sixers
DA Warner became the fourth batsman in the history of Twenty20 games to score 10000 plus runs. The others are – CH Gayle, KA Pollard and Shoaib Malik. The following table lists the performance of these four batsmen as of 29.04.21
Player | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | C | HC |
CH Gayle | 422 | 414 | 049 | 13839 | 175* | 22 | 86 |
KA Pollard | 540 | 480 | 140 | 10710 | 104 | 01 | 52 |
Shoaib Malik | 417 | 389 | 106 | 10488 | 95* | 00 | 64 |
DA Warner | 304 | 303 | 038 | 10017 | 135* | 08 | 82 |
DA Warner’s 57 in the game between Sunrisers and Chennai Super Kings at Delhi on 28 Apr 2021 provides his 90th fifty – 08 Centuries and 82 half centuries in Twenty20 games. He became the second batsman to score 90 fifties in the history of Twenty20 games after CH Gayle. CH Gayle has scored 108 fifties – 22 Centuries and 86 half centuries
It’s unfortunate that the media and TV Commentators failed to pick up this important stats of one of the most exciting batsman in the history of T20 games