mahendra singh dhoni scored most runs in t20 for india.
who scored most runs in t20 for india?
mahendra singh dhoni
tiwary was named in the odi squad to bangladesh, however he failed to make the playing eleven after sustaining an injury in training, the morning he was supposed to debut. he eventually made his debut against australia in the 2007–08 commonwealth bank series in which he scored only 2 runs in his only innings. he was later included in the india team for the west indies tour of 2011, as a replacement for yuvraj singh, who opted out of the series due to a lung infection. manoj tiwary played the 4th and 5th odi in the series. he later got picked for england's tour of india in october. he played in the 5th odi and got 24 runs. he also played the only t20 and scored 15 runs. tiwary was subsequently named in the squad for the odi's against west indies in november–december. he played in the 5th odi at chennai when india was down by 2 wickets for only 1 run in the very first over of the match. he then went on build a solid innings which got him his scoring maiden odi century (104 not out) despite having cramps and retired soon after getting his century. eventually india won the match by 34 runs and he was awarded the man-of-the-match for this match-winning knock. even after the unbeaten century, tiwary was made to sit in the reserves for 14 successive matches following the century. however, he made an auspicious comeback as an all-rounder replacing leg spinner rahul sharma against sri lanka at colombo as he took 4/61 from his 10 overs with his leg-breaks to restrict the hosts to 251/8. he took the wickets of dinesh chandimal, angelo mathews, jeevan mendis and thisara perera, and followed it with a fighting 21 from 38 at a tough time coming at 60/3. india eventually won the match as virat kohli scored an unbeaten ton.
manoj tiwary
in the 2016–17 quaid-e-azam trophy, akmal was the highest run-scorer in the tournament making 1,035 runs. in november 2017, he scored 150 not out batting for lahore whites against islamabad in the 2017–18 national t20 cup. he became the first batsman for pakistan to score 150 runs in a t20 match. he also hit the most number of sixes in a domestic t20 match in pakistan and became the third batsman to make five consecutive fifties in t20 cricket. during the 2017-18 national t20 cup he along with salman butt set the world record opening partnership in t20 history of unbeaten 209 runstand, surpassing the previous highest opening partnership of 207 in any form of t20 cricket held by joe denly and daniel bell-drummond. the record runstand was also the third highest partnership in terms of runs for any wicket in t20 history.
kamran akmal