Jos Buttler T20 Record: Buttler becomes the ‘King’ of T20 by defeating Chris Gayle, Pollard’s crown is also in danger!

England’s experienced wicketkeeper-batsman Jos Buttler has achieved a big position in T20 cricket. He has now become the second highest run scorer in the world in this format. In this matter, he has left behind the legendary West Indies batsman Chris Gayle. Butler achieved this feat while playing for ‘Manchester Super Giants’ against ‘London Spirit’, where he scored an inning of 16 runs in 11 balls.

Butler left Gayle behind

Jos Buttler now has a total of 14,572 runs in his name in T20 cricket. In this shortest format of the game, he has scored 9 brilliant centuries and 102 half-centuries. At the same time, Chris Gayle had scored 14,562 runs in his 455 T20 innings, which included 22 centuries and 88 half-centuries. If we talk about the record of scoring most runs in T20 cricket, then this crown is still held by Kieron Pollard. Pollard has scored 14,803 runs in 663 innings, which includes 2 centuries and 70 half-centuries.

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Now Butler needs only 231 runs to break Pollard’s record and become number one.

After struggling for runs in the T20 World Cup 2026, Buttler has now regained his old rhythm. His performance in the recently concluded T20 International series against India was amazing. In the 5th T20 match, he batted brilliantly and played a stormy innings of 131 runs in just 64 balls. In this five-match series, Butler scored a total of 175 runs at an average of 43 and strike rate of 182.

Butler’s performance in International T20 also

If we talk only about T20 International (T20I) matches, then Butler is currently at third position in the list of highest run scorers. He has scored 4,212 runs in 160 matches of this format at an excellent strike rate of 148. During this period, he has scored 28 half-centuries and two centuries. Only India’s Rohit Sharma and Pakistan’s Babar Azam are ahead of him in this list. Rohit Sharma, who has retired from T20 International, has 4,231 runs in his name, while Babar Azam remains on top with 4,596 runs.

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