Mohammad Rizwan of Pakistan becomes the first wicket keeper batsman to score twenty fifties in Twenty20 Internationals.

Mohammad Rizwan of Pakistan becomes the first wicket keeper batsman to score twenty fifties in Twenty20 Internationals.

Mohammad Rizwan’s 63 against England at Lahore in the fifth T20I on 28 Sep 2022 was his 20th fifty as a wicket  keeper batsman. He became the first wicket keeper batsman to score 20 fifties as a wicket keeper batsman in the history of T20Is and remains the only wicket keeper batsman in T20Is to achieve the feat as on date. All his 20 fifties are tabulated below.

NoRunsIOppositionGroundStart Date
1892v New ZealandNapier22 Dec 2020
2104*1v South AfricaLahore11 Feb 2021
3511v South AfricaLahore13 Feb 2021
474*2v South AfricaJohannesburg10 Apr 2021
573*2v South AfricaCenturion14 Apr 2021
682*1v ZimbabweHarare21 Apr 2021
7631v EnglandNottingham16 Jul 2021
876*1v EnglandManchester20 Jul 2021
979*2v IndiaDub-DSC24 Oct 2021
1079*1v NamibiaAbu Dhabi02 Nov 2021
11671v AustraliaDub-DSC11 Nov 2021
12781v West IndiesKarachi13 Dec 2021
13872v West IndiesKarachi16 Dec 2021
1478*1v Hong KongSharjah02 Sep 2022
15712v IndiaDub-DSC04 Sep 2022
16552v Sri LankaDub-DSC11 Sep 2022
17681v EnglandKarachi20 Sep 2022
1888*2v EnglandKarachi22 Sep 2022
19881v EnglandKarachi25 Sep 2022
20631v EnglandLahore28 Sep 2022

His run aggregate in T20Is as a wicket keeper batsman read 2117 as at the end of the fifth T20I against England at Lahore on 28 Sep 2022. He is the second wicket keeper batsman in the history of T20Is to amass 2000 plus runs after JC Buttler of England. JC Buttler has an aggregate of 2119 runs.

Mohammad Rizwan needs three more runs which would fetch him 2120 runs and own the record for most runs by a wicket keeper batsman in the history of T20Is.

Mohammad Rizwan’s 63 against England at Lahore in the fifth T20I on 28 Sep 2022 was his sixth fifty as a wicket keeper batsman against England. He became the first wicket keeper batsman to score six fifties as a wicket keeper batsman in the history of T20Is against England and remains the only wicket keeper batsman in T20Is to achieve the feat as on date. All his six fifties are tabulated below.

NoRunsIOppositionGroundStart Date
1631v EnglandNottingham16 Jul 2021
276*1v EnglandManchester20 Jul 2021
3681v EnglandKarachi20 Sep 2022
488*2v EnglandKarachi22 Sep 2022
5881v EnglandKarachi25 Sep 2022
6631v EnglandLahore28 Sep 2022

His run aggregate in T20Is as a wicket keeper batsman read 515 as at the end of the fifth T20I against England at Lahore on 28 Sep 2022. He is the only wicket keeper batsman in the history of T20Is to amass 500 plus runs against England as on date.

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