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Jos Buttler Breaks World Record For Most Runs In T20s
Jos Buttler is a famous cricket player from England.
Cricket has a fast, exciting version called T20, where players try to score as many runs as they can.
Jos has played 522 T20 games, which is more than most players ever get to play.
On Wednesday, he scored 51 runs without getting out, including six big sixes.
Those runs helped him pass another great player named Kieron Pollard.
Now Jos has more runs in T20 cricket than anyone else in the world: 14,833.
He did it during a match called The Hundred in Manchester, England.
His team, the Manchester Super Giants, won the match by chasing their target very quickly.
Jos has now scored fifty or more runs four times this season.
That matches a record set by Dawid Malan and James Vince.
Jos Buttler became the highest run-scorer in T20 cricket history with 14,833 runs, achieved in his 522nd T20 appearance.
He struck an unbeaten 51 off 20 balls for Manchester Super Giants against Welsh Fire at Old Trafford, including two fours and six sixes.
Buttler passed Kieron Pollard's 14,803-run tally on the 62nd ball of the 156-run chase, pushing Pollard to second and Chris Gayle (14,562) to third.
His fourth fifty of the season equalled the record for most 50-plus scores in a single edition of The Hundred, matching Dawid Malan and James Vince.
Manchester Super Giants won by nine wickets, chasing 156 in 69 balls, with Tim Seifert (62 not out) after Welsh Fire's Matt Short scored 71.
- Who
- Jos Buttler, England batter and former England white-ball captain, playing for Manchester Super Giants.
- What
- Became the highest run-scorer in T20 cricket history, reaching 14,833 career runs.
- Where
- Old Trafford, Manchester, during a Men's Hundred match between Manchester Super Giants and Welsh Fire.
- When
- Wednesday, August 5, 2026.
- Why
- He scored an unbeaten 51 off 20 balls, surpassing Kieron Pollard's 14,803-run record on the 62nd ball of a 156-run chase.
Key facts
- Record
- Most runs in T20 cricket - 14,833
- Match
- Manchester Super Giants vs Welsh Fire, Men's Hundred
- Venue
- Old Trafford, Manchester
- Date
- August 5, 2026
- Buttler's innings
- 51 not out off 20 balls, with two fours and six sixes
- Record overtaken
- Kieron Pollard - 14,803 runs in 746 matches
- Third place
- Chris Gayle - 14,562 runs
- Season run tally (articles differ)
- 277 runs per News18; 227 runs per second report
Quotes
Manchester Super Giants
Official statement from the Manchester Super Giants club
“"Manchester Super Giants can confirm that men's captain Aiden Markram has returned to South Africa due to personal reasons,"”
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