The veteran Pakistan Cricket team all-rounder Shoaib Malik seemed delighted to share the third spot with Virat Kohli in the list of highest run-scorer in T20I cricket. Meanwhile, during the second T20I against Australia, Kohli went past 2200 runs in T20I cricket to become the third highest run-scorer alongside Malik. Although the results didn’t go in favour of India, the skipper had a good outing in Bengaluru.
With 72 runs from 38 balls, he took his run tally in the shortest format to 2263 runs from 67 matches, thereby equalling Pakistan’s Shoaib Malik who also has 2263 runs to his name but from 111 matches. Moreover, Virat Kohli took the least number of innings to reach the 2200 run mark milestone.
Ahead of Kohli and Malik are Martin Guptill (2272 runs from 74 matches) and Rohit Sharma (2331 runs from 94 matches). As a result, Virat Kohli and Shoaib Malik are nine runs behind Guptill and 68 behind Rohit.
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Soon after Virat Kohli touched him in the list, Shoaib Malik took to Twitter to express his happiness. In a time, when the relation between India and Pakistan have turned bitter, it is a welcoming step from the veteran Pakistani. While Virat Kohli has no T20I left before the ICC World Cup, Malik will get an opportunity to overscale Kohli when he faces England in a one-off T20I against England on May 5.
“Delighted to share the #3 spot of T20I runs with my neighbour @imVkohli,” Shoaib Malik tweeted.
Delighted to share the #3 spot of T20I runs with my neighbour @imVkohli ?
