Kishan passes 2,000 T20I runs and Indian annual record

Ishan Kishan scored 61 from 32 balls in the fifth T20I against New Zealand on November 1, passing 2,000 career runs in the format and moving past Suryakumar Yadav’s Indian calendar-year T20I record, according to match reports. Kishan reached the career milestone during the series finale at Seddon Park in Hamilton, becoming the seventh Indian to pass 2,000 T20I runs. He has 2,016 runs from 69 matches, one report said. Another said he reached the mark in 1,345 balls, the third-fastest among Indian batters after Abhishek Sharma and Suryakumar. His innings included five sixes and five fours. Kishan was dismissed by Blair Tickner, caught at deep midwicket by Nathan Smith. He had needed 45 runs to reach 2,000 before the match, according to one account. Kishan also surpassed Suryakumar’s 1,164 runs in 2022, previously the highest calendar-year total by an Indian in T20Is. Reports disagree, however, on Kishan’s own 2026 tally: one gives 1,220 runs in 37 matches, while another lists 1,165 in the same number of matches. Both reports say he moved past Suryakumar’s mark, but the supplied figures do not establish which Kishan total is correct. The milestone came after an interrupted series...