Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan has become the batsman with the most runs in a calendar year in T20Is during his knock of 46 runs off 36 balls against West Indies in the second T20 on Saturday.

Rizwan, a wicketkeeper-batsman, now has 752 runs in 14 innings of 15 matches at an average of 94. He has surpassed the previous record of Ireland's Paul Stirling, who aggregated 748 runs in 20 innings of 20 matches at an average of 41.55 in 2019.

The right-hander has smashed seven half-centuries and one century this year. He has scored runs at a strike rate of 140.03 and has hit 65 fours and 25 sixes.

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Rizwan has played 41 T20Is for Pakistan since making his debut in 2015. He has made 1065 runs at a strike rate of 129.09 and an average of 48.80. He has one century and 8 fifties to his name as well.

The third and fourth places are occupied by Ireland's Kevin O'Brien (729) and the Netherlands' Maxwell O'Dowd (702), India's Shikhar Dhawan is fifth in the list with 689 runs in 17 innings of 18 matches. Dhawan aggregated the runs at an average of 40.52 in 2018.

Meanwhile, Pakistan beat West Indies in the second T20I of the 4-match series by 7 runs to take a 1-0 lead.

(IANS inputs)