WTC Stats: In the World Test Championship 2023, who is at the forefront of scoring runs, not a single Indian batsman in the top-15

March 14, 2023 / By
WTC Stats: In the World Test Championship 2023, who is at the forefront of scoring runs, not a single Indian batsman in the top-15

WTC Top Run Scorer: Only two matches are left to be played under the World Test Championship 2021-23. One match is to be played between Sri Lanka and New Zealand, while the other match is to be played between India and Australia. This match between India and Australia will be the final match of WTC, which will start from June 7 at ‘The Oval’ in London. That is, the World Test Championship has now reached its last stage. In such a situation, know who has spread color as a batsman in this championship…

This time former England captain Joe Root has scored the most runs in the World Test Championship. He has scored 1915 runs in 40 innings of 22 matches. During this, Root scored at an average of 53.19. Root has also scored 8 centuries and 6 half-centuries in the matches played under this championship.

Khwaja can beat Root
The second highest run-scorer batsman in WTC after Root is Usman Khawaja of Australia. Khawaja scored 1608 runs in 28 innings of 16 matches at an average of 69.91. Khawaja can beat Joe Root here but for this he will have to score 308 runs in the WTC final.

This is the list of top-15

batters match run Batting Average Century
1. Joe Root 22 1915 53.19 8
2. Usman Khawaja 16 1608 69.91 6
3. Babar Azam 14 1527 61.08 4
4. Marnus Labuschagne 19 1509 53.89 5
5. Jonny Bairstow 15 1285 51.40 6
6. Steve Smith 19 1252 50.08 3
7. Travis Head 17 1208 52.52 3
8. Litton Das 12 1024 46.54 3
9. Craig Braithwaite 13 994 43.21 2
10. Abdullah Shafiq 12 992 47.23 3
11. Ben Stokes 18 971 32.36 2
12. Daryl Mitchell 10 943 62.86 4
13. Tom Latham 12 939 44.71 2
14. Imam ul Haq 9 932 54.82 3
15. Dimuth Karunaratne 11 914 45.70 2

Indian batsmen are at 18th position
Cheteshwar Pujara is on top in terms of scoring the most runs in WTC among Indian batsmen. He has scored 887 runs in 16 matches. But he is at the 18th position in the overall rank. Whereas Virat Kohli is present at the 20th position. Kohli has scored 869 runs in 16 matches.

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