Sikandar Raza achieved a historic T20I double

A historic double of 3,000 T20I runs and 100-plus wickets landed for only the second man ever, and it happened on a World Cup stage against India.

Raza's milestone knock against India
  • Sikandar Raza smashed 31 off 21 balls during the Super Eights clash.
  • His 15th run of that innings pushed him past 3,000 T20I runs.
  • Raza now holds 3,016 runs across the format.
  • No Zimbabwean batter had ever reached that mark before.
Only two men own this double
  • Malaysia's Virandeep Singh is the sole other member of this club.
  • Raza carries 104 wickets alongside his run tally.
  • He is the first Full Member nation player to nail this double.
  • Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nabi, and Hardik Pandya trail him in runs.
Career numbers are absolutely wild
  • Raza debuted in T20Is back in 2013 at age 26.
  • Across 127 innings, his average sits at 26.22.
  • One century and 16 half-centuries fill his scorecard.
  • He crossed 7,000 all-format T20 runs in the same knock.
Where he ranks among the legends
  • Raza slots in as the 14th-highest men's T20I run-scorer.
  • Babar Azam, Virat Kohli, and Jos Buttler share that tier.
  • Brendan Taylor's 4,300-plus T20 runs lag far behind domestically.
  • MA Chidambaram Stadium hosted the record-setting evening.
 

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