Most runs in T20 World Cup 2024: List of the highest individual run-scorers

The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 was held in the West Indies and the USA. The ninth edition of the T20 World Cup began on June 1 and the final was held on June 29 at the Kensington Oval in Barbados.

T20 Worlds Cups, the premier cricket tournaments in the format, boast the finest batting talents in every edition and to emerge as the best among the best is considered a huge honour. Expectedly, there’s always considerable interest in finding out who finished with the most runs in the T20 World Cup 2024.

With 281 runs from eight games, Rahmanullah Gurbaz of Afghanistan finished as the top scorer in the T20 World Cup 2024 and was pivotal in his team's historic run to the semi-finals.

Having started in 2007, the T20 Cricket World Cups have been mostly held once every two years. As a result, finishing as the top run-scorer is a rare feat - one that only seven cricket players have been able to achieve to date.

Australia’s Matthew Hayden, with 265 runs in six matches, was the highest individual run scorer at the inaugural men’s T20 Cricket World Cup in 2007, hosted by South Africa.

India’s Virat Kohli remains the only player to have topped the run-scoring charts in two different T20 World Cups. Kohli scored 319 runs in the 2014 World Cup in Bangladesh and followed it up with 296 runs in the 2022 edition in Australia. His 319 runs in 2014, scored at an average of 106.33, is the highest run tally for any batsman at a single edition.

Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan (2009), Mahela Jayawardene (2010), Australia’s Shane Watson (2012), Bangladesh’s Tamim Iqbal (2016), Pakistan’s Babar Azam (2021) are the other five batters who have finished on top of the run-scoring charts at the T20 World Cups.

Here’s a list of the players who have scored the most runs in the T20 World Cup 2024.

Most runs in T20 World Cup 2024