Most Runs As A Wicket-Keeper In ICC World Test Championship
Published - 17 Jan 2022, 09:55 AM | Updated - 23 Aug 2024, 01:03 AM
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Rishabh Pant overtook ended as the highest scorer by a wicketkeeper-batsman in the first edition of ICC World Test Championship ( 2019-2021). New Zealand went onto become the Test champions by beating India in the final. Taking India to the WTC final remains Virat Kohli’s biggest achievement as India’s Test skipper.
Along with Rishabh Pant, the list includes names like Quinton De Kock, Niroshan Dickella, Mohammad Rizwan and Jos Buttler all of whom played an important role for their team with the bat in the first edition of the tournament.
In this article, we will take a look at how many runs each of them score in the first edition of the ICC World Test Championship.
Most Runs As A Wicket-Keeper In ICC World Test Championship
Rishabh Pant-1039
Pant top-scored in the first phase with 1039 runs at an average of 34.63. He scored two hundreds and five fifties in the meantime. He had scores of 89* and 97 in the Test series against Australia which India won. He carried his bat through at The Gabba to help India beat Australia for the second consecutive time in a Test series. The Test series win in Australia remains India’s most famous victory in recent times and Pant was one of the architects of the victory.
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Jos Buttler-895
Jos Buttler scored a total of 1142 in 25 matches for England, out of which he scored 895 runs as a wicketkeeper-batsman. Buttler lost his form completely heading into the second cycle of the ICC World Test Championship. He averaged 28.87 as a keeper-batsman and hit one hundred and four fifties natting at number six or seven. In the just concluded Ashes series, Buttler was not even in the top-run getters list. The England batsman is almost a shadow of what he is as a top-order batsman for England in the white-ball formats.
Quinton De Kock -893
De Kock announced his retirement after the end of the Centurion Test against India. His retirement came as a shock to South African cricket as he was one of the more experienced batsmen in the otherwise inexperienced batting line-up. He said that he wants to give time to his family and extend his white-ball career in the process.
The southpaw scored 902 runs in 14 matches in the WTC. Out of which, he scored 893 runs as a keeper-batsman for his team. He scored two hundreds and five fifties in the meantime averaging 40.59
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Mohammad Rizwan-893
Rizwan ended with 893 runs from 16 matches for the Men in Green in the meantime averaging 44.65 He scored 1 century and as many as seven fifties in the first edition of the WTC. He also holds the record of scoring the most T20I runs in a calendar year (1326 in 2021). Babar Azam with 939 runs came second on the list.
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Niroshan Dickwella -753
The Sri Lankan wicketkeeper-batsman with 753 runs at 39.63 ends the list of highest run-getters in WTC 2019-2021. He scored six fifties in the meantime. His attacking style of batting will be of great help to the Lankans when they travel to India later this year for a Test series which will be a part of the second WTC cycle.
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