Sanju Samson's sparkling 89 powered India to a giant 253 against England at the Wankhede Stadium. (Express Photo by Narendra Vaskar)
T20 World Cup 2026 Most Runs: India wicket-keeper Sanju Samson has created waves with two back-to-back match-winning performances in the T20 World Cup. Backing up his unbeaten 97 in the Super 8 match against the West Indies in Kolkata, Samson revelled with a scintillating 42-ball 89 against England at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday.
Samson’s knock laced with a bevy of boundaries also propelled him to 16 sixes in the tournament despite playing only four innings in the tournament. The 31-year-old thereby broke Rohit Sharma’s record for the most sixes in a T20 World Cup edition by an Indian batter as the Men in Blue pipped England by seven runs to reach their fourth final.
Samson also recorded the joint-highest score by an Indian batter in T20 World Cup knockouts, equalling Virat Kohli’s unbeaten 89 in the 2016 T20 World Cup semi-final at the same venue against the West Indies. In only four innings, Samson became only the fourth Indian opener to record 200-plus runs in the T20 World Cup, joining Rohit, Gautam Gambhir and KL Rahul.
Pakistan’s Sahibzada Farhan finds himself on top of the run-scorers charts, having racked up two centuries and as many fifties. Powering New Zealand to the final with a marauding century off only 33 deliveries, opener Finn Allen moved up to No. 3 ahead of the summit clash. Among Indians, Ishan Kishan leads the charts, scoring 263 runs in eight innings, followed by Suryakumar Yadav at No. 9, with 242 runs at a 34.57 average.
| Player | Inns | Runs | HS | Ave | SR | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s |
| Sahibzada Farhan (PAK) | 6 | 383 | 100* | 76.6 | 160.25 | 2 | 2 | 37 | 18 |
| Brian Bennett (ZIM) | 6 | 292 | 97* | 146 | 134.56 | 0 | 3 | 32 | 7 |
| Finn Allen (NZ) | 7 | 289 | 100* | 57.8 | 203.52 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 20 |
| Aiden Markram (SA) | 8 | 286 | 86* | 47.66 | 165.31 | 0 | 3 | 32 | 11 |
| Jacob Bethell (ENG) | 8 | 280 | 105 | 35 | 152.17 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 14 |
| Tim Seifert (NZ) | 7 | 274 | 89* | 45.66 | 161.17 | 0 | 3 | 32 | 11 |
| Ishan Kishan (IND) | 8 | 263 | 77 | 32.87 | 189.2 | 0 | 2 | 29 | 14 |
| Shimron Hetmyer (WI) | 7 | 248 | 85 | 41.33 | 186.46 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 19 |
| Suryakumar Yadav (IND) | 8 | 242 | 84* | 34.57 | 137.5 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 10 |
| Harry Brook (ENG) | 8 | 235 | 100 | 29.37 | 159.86 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 9 |
| Sanju Samson (IND) | 4 | 232 | 97* | 77.33 | 201.73 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 16 |
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