Overview
- Karanbir Singh finished 2025 with 1,488 T20I runs, compiled in 32 innings at a strike rate of 175.
- He crossed the record with scores of 57 and 90 on October 18, then added 74 and 27 on October 19 at Moara Vlasiei in Romania.
- His year included 127 fours and 122 sixes, nearly doubling Suryakumar Yadav’s 2022 sixes total of 68.
- The previous calendar-year record was Mohammad Rizwan’s 1,326 in 2021, now surpassed by the Austria batter.
- Austria teammate Bilal Zalmai reached 1,000 runs for the year during the same series, while Bahrain’s Fiaz Ahmed was 57 short of 1,000 at the time of reporting.