Top 10 in T20: Highest run scorers in Twenty20 history

Chris Gayle set a record to become the first cricketer ever to score 10,000 runs in T20 cricket during Royal Challengers Bangalore's match against Gujarat Lions at the IPL 2017 season yesterday

Chris Gayle set a record to become the first cricketer ever to score 10,000 runs in T20 cricket during Royal Challengers Bangalore's match against Gujarat Lions at the IPL 2017 season yesterday.

Let's take a look at ten of the leading run getters in the history of the shortest format of the game.

Chris Gayle

Matches - 290. Runs - 10,074. Average - 40.62. Strike rate - 149.51. Hundreds - 18

Brendon McCullum

Matches - 272. Runs - 7596. Average - 31.51. Strike rate - 138.31. Hundreds - 7

Brad Hodge

Matches - 270. Runs - 7338. Average - 36.87. Strike rate - 131.27. Hundreds - 2

Kieron Pollard

Matches - 363. Runs - 7087. Average - 30.54. Strike rate - 151.72. Hundreds - none

David Warner

Matches - 227. Runs - 7156. Average - 35.42. Strike rate - 143.40. Hundreds - 5

Shoaib Malik

Matches - 271. Runs - 6909. Average - 37.34. Strike rate - 123.44. Hundreds - none

Dwayne Smith

Matches - 289. Runs - 6767. Average - 26.22. Strike rate - 126.79. Hundreds - 3

Virat Kohli

Matches - 212. Runs - 6667. Average - 41.40. Strike rate - 132.91. Hundreds - 4

Suresh Raina

Matches - 250. Runs - 6589. Average - 33.44. Strike rate - 138.80. Hundreds - 3

Luke Wright

Matches - 266. Runs - 6296. Average - 28.61. Strike rate - 144.8. Hundreds - 6

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