KARACHI
\nPakistan\u2019s wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan has been named the Leading T20 Cricketer in the World in the 2022 edition of the Wisden Almanack.
\nRizwan, last year, became the first-ever cricketer in the history of T20 cricket to amass over 2,000 runs in a calendar year. He scored 2,036 runs in 45 innings at an average of 56.55 in 2021.
\nHe also became the first-ever player to score 1,000 T20 international runs in a calendar year. His 2021 runs tally includes 1,326 runs at an average of 73.66 in international cricket.
\nIt is worth mentioning that Rizwan in the previous year was named among Widen Cricketers of the year as well.
\nWhile profiling Rizwan for Wisden, Alan Gardner wrote that Rizwan was batting as if blessed with foresight and recalled the video that went viral after Pakistan\u2019s win in ICC T20 World Cup against India.
\n\u201cTwenty20 batting is supposed to be a volatile, high-variance occupation: boom-boom or bust. Occasionally, a player produces a purple patch to rise above the hurly-burly. But no one has had a year of such sustained run-scoring as Pakistan\u2019s Mohammad Rizwan.
\n\u201cNever mind seeing it well: he was batting as if blessed with foresight. And in a sense he was. After starring in Pakistan\u2019s ten-wicket demolition of India at the T20 World Cup, his clarity of purpose was summed up by a viral video from the ICC that spliced his pre-game routine of visualisation alongside the boundaries he struck during his 55-ball 79,\u201d he wrote.
\nHe also highlighted how remarkable the year was for Mohammad Rizwan.
\n\u201cIn all T20 cricket, he made 2,036 at 56. No one \u2014 not Chris Gayle, not Virat Kohli, not Rizwan\u2019s opening partner, Babar Azam, who last year scored 1,779 himself \u2014 had ever got near 2,000,\u201d Alan Gardner noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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