His India teammate Rohit Sharma is second in the list with 497 runs followed Sabbir Rahman of Bangladesh with 463 runs in 16 matches Glenn Maxwell is next in line with 435 runs in 11 matches and Hamilton Masakadza rounds off the top 5 with 411 runs in 12 T20I matches.
In fact, none of the batsman in the previous decade come anywhere close to the amount of runs made by Kohli in International T20Is as far as the most number of runs is concerned, with Martin Guptill the second best, having made 472 runs in 2012.
In fact, that year Kohli missed out by equalling the New Zealander’s mark by a solitary run, making 471 runs, which was his best tally up until now.
The right-hander may have won two two Player of the series awards in World T20s and may be the only player to achieve the feat, but ever since making his debut for India in the shortest format in 2010, the Delhi lad has had a up-and-down time with the bat in hand, partly because of the volume of games played each year.
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The first T20I was played in 2005 between Australia and New Zealand, but the real boost for the format came post the success of the World T20 in 2007, which saw massive crowds for almost all matches.
Ricky Ponting took the honours for being the leading run-getter in the inaugural year when the format was played and from then, the number of runs scored by a batsman has been on a constant rise, barring the odd year when fewer matches were played in the shortest version of the game.
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