Another busy worldwide cricketing calendar has come and gone. The yr 2022 witnessed marquee occasions such because the T20 World Cup in Australia and the Asia Cup within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) apart from a number of bilateral collection motion and World Test Championship (WTC) fixtures.
While Pakistan misplaced the Asia Cup and T20 World Cup finals and misplaced two key dwelling Test collection to Australia and England, leading to its ouster from the WTC last race, its captain Babar Azam emerged as the highest run-scorer throughout the three codecs in 2022. Azam had his teammate Mohammad Rizwan, fourth on the record, for firm. Among Indians, Shreyas Iyer topped the charts regardless of not being a daily in all codecs and occupied the third place among the many prime run-getters on the earth in 2022. Bangladesh had a removed from splendid yr however ended it on a excessive by successful an ODI collection towards India as its stand-in skipper Litton Das grabbed the second spot on the record.
Just because the yr wound to a detailed, Australia’s Steven Smith sprang into motion with a few half-centuries within the ODI collection towards England after the T20 World Cup, struck a powerful unbeaten Test double-hundred towards West Indies and compiled a affected person 161-ball 85 towards South Africa in his final worldwide innings of 2022 and rounded off the highest 5.
Here are the highest 5 run-scorers in worldwide cricket throughout codecs in 2022:
Batter | Matches | Runs | Average | Highest Score | 100s/50s |
Babar Azam (PAK) | 44 | 2598 | 54.12 | 196 | 8/17 |
Litton Das (BAN) | 42 | 1921 | 40.02 | 141 | 3/13 |
Shreyas Iyer (IND) | 39 | 1609 | 48.75 | 113* | 1/14 |
Mohammad Rizwan (PAK) | 41 | 1598 | 38.97 | 104* | 1/12 |
Steven Smith (AUS) | 33 | 1560 | 50.32 | 200* | 3/9 |