Published on: Dec 22, 2022 10:49 pm IST|Updated on: Dec 23, 2022 11:32 am IST
As 2022 comes to an end, it’s time for a recap of how the year went in the field of cricket. This year’s major international tournaments took place including the T20 World Cup. England emerged victorious with a collective performance. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka upset everyone and was crowned the Asia champions. Moreover, batters had a great year as this year was dominated by a record number of T20 internationals. Here’s a list of players to score most runs in each format in 2022.
The test rankings were dominated by the Englishmen and the Aussies. The former England captain, who relieved his captaincy duties to focus on his batting, stood up for the team. With 1098 runs, he finished 2022 as the leading run scorer in tests. Australian opener, Usman Khawaja, ranked second with 1079 runs with a strike rate of 51.62.
Players
Joe Root
Usman Khawaja
1
Babar Azam
Marnus Labuschagne
4
Zack Crawley
Abdullah Shafique
2
Litton Das
ODIs in 2022 took a backseat as teams played only a handful of those. Mostly associate nations took part in the ODIs and played qualifiers for the upcoming 2023 World Cup. Gerhard Erasmus of Namibia topped the list with 956 runs. 2 Indian players made it into the list. Shreyas Iyer and Shikhar Dhawan ranked 6th and 9th, respectively, while Pakistani skipper, Babar Azam was placed 10th.
Player
Gerhard Erasmus
5
Monank Patel
Shreyas Iyer
Shai Hope
Shikhar Dhawan
Suryakumar Yadav reached the magical figure of 1000 runs in a single calendar year 2022 in T20 internationals. Mohammad Rizwan missed out on that magical figure by 4 runs and also lost his top spot at the T20 world rankings. Furthermore, Virat Kohli found his lost form back and finished 2022 with 781 runs. Virat took the least number of matches to reach this figure. He even ended his century drought this year by scoring a ton against Afghanistan in Asia Cup 2022. Furthermore, Virat Kohli led India to a dominant single-handed victory over archrival Pakistan in the T20 World Cup, finishing as the tournament’s leading run-scorer.
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