TAROUBA, Trinidad, (CM)C – West Indies’ prolific wicketkeeper/batsman Nicholas Pooran has broken the three-year old record for the most T20 runs set in a calendar year.
The 28-year-old set the new mark on Friday when he scored 27 for the Trinbago Knight Riders against the Barbados Royals in the Caribbean Premier League, to surpass the previous record of 2036 runs set by Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan in 2021.

Pooran currently has 2,059 runs from 65 innings at a blistering strike rate of 160.63.
Rizwan and Pooran are the only two players in T20 history to cross the 2,000-run mark in a calendar year.
Pooran’s tally for 2024 includes 14 fifties, but no centuries despite a few scores in the 90s, compared to Rizwan, who scored 18 fifties and a century in 2021.

The West Indian star has had a busy year, representing several teams across various T20 competitions, including Durban Super Giants, Lucknow Super Giants, MI Emirates, MI New York, Northern Superchargers, Rangpur Riders, and the West Indies.

Pooran’s stellar form propelled him past another milestone earlier this year when he became the first player to hit over 150 sixes in a single year, breaking Chris Gayle’s record of 135 sixes from 2015.
His dominance this year places him well ahead of South Africa’s Reeza Hendricks trailing behind with 1,555 runs, followed by Pakistan’s Babar Azam with 1,480 runs, while Australia’s Travis Head is next on the list with 1,442 runs.