T20Is - Best Batsmen Against Top Teams

Top 10 T20I Batsmen Against Top Teams

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Our Twenty Twenty International (T20I) ratings take into account all matches from the first T20I match on February 17, 2005. All T20I Ratings are updated till 2026-03-08. Brief explanation of the ratings is given before each section and at the end (Detailed Explanation). Here are the Top 10 batsmen against Top Teams in T20Is.

CONTENTS
1. THE CRITERIA
2. QUALIFICATION
3. PROLIFIC
4. CONSISTENT
4.1. Against Top Teams
5. ATTACKING
5.1. Against Top Teams
6. BIG INNINGS POTENTIAL
6.1. Against Top Teams
7. QUICK INNINGS POTENTIAL
7.1. Against Top Teams
8. TOP TEAMS RATING
9. BRIEF EXPLANATION
9.1. Dynamic Nature
9.2. Trend Setter (TS)
9.3. Top Inns by SR (QIP) Qualification
9.4. Abbreviations
TT RATING

Points to note about TOP TEAMS Rating:-

  • An opposition is counted as a TT considering its Win/Loss (WL) Ratios in last 5 years.
  • Home, Away, In Asia, Outside Asia and Overall WL Ratio is considered.
  • The WL Ratio should be more than a certain value overall or in specific condition.

THE CRITERIA

The TT Rating is divided into 5 main sections:-

CRITERIA STAT POINTS
Prolific Runs Scored 200.00
Consistent Average 150.00
Attacking Strike Rate 250.00
Big Innings Potential Top Scores by Runs 100.00
Quick Innings Potential Top Scores by SR 300.00

QUALIFICATION

Min Innings (TT) 20
Min Career Runs 500

PROLIFIC

The Eras

T20Is from 2005 to present are divided into eras for this section. Players are compared with players of the same period. A few points are deducted if the top scorer of that era is not the overall top scorer. Know More About Eras.

Era 1 MP before 2021
Era 2 MP greater than 2020

CRITERIA: Points For Runs Scored

RANK ERA 1 NAT FP LP MP INNS RUNS RAT
TS JC Buttler ENG 2011 2026 2018.5 120 3477 200.00
1 JC Buttler ENG 2011 2026 2018.5 120 3477 200.00
2 V Kohli IND 2010 2024 2017 90 3376 194.19
3 RG Sharma IND 2007 2024 2015.5 109 2810 161.63
4 MJ Guptill NZ 2009 2022 2015.5 93 2758 158.64
5 AJ Finch AUS 2011 2022 2016.5 81 2327 133.85
6 GJ Maxwell AUS 2012 2026 2019 90 2315 133.16
RANK ERA 2 NAT FP LP MP INNS RUNS RAT
TS Babar Azam PAK 2016 2026 2021 95 3224 200.00
1 Babar Azam PAK 2016 2026 2021 95 3224 200.00
2 SA Yadav IND 2021 2026 2023.5 77 2367 146.84
3 FH Allen NZ 2021 2026 2023.5 37 1137 70.53
4 Ab Sharma IND 2024 2026 2025 30 1010 62.66

CONSISTENT

R Ave

Relative Average (R Ave) is a more accurate type of average. Know How It Is Calculated. Briefly, it takes into account:-

  • Strength of Opposition.
  • Positions at which a batsman has played.
  • Venues at which he has played.
  • Time Period in which he has been active

Criteria: Points For Relative Average

Min Qualification For TS
Min Runs 1000

Against Top Teams

RANK BATSMAN INNS NO RUNS 50+ AVE R AVE RAT
TS NT Tilak Varma 33 12 1071 7 51.00 52.03 150.00
1 V Kohli 90 22 3376 32 49.65 49.09 141.51
2 Babar Azam 95 15 3224 29 40.30 40.19 115.87
3 Ab Sharma 30 2 1010 8 36.07 35.48 102.29
4 SA Yadav 77 8 2367 20 34.30 34.89 100.57
5 JC Buttler 120 18 3477 26 34.09 34.84 100.42
6 FH Allen 37 2 1137 7 32.49 32.59 93.94
7 AJ Finch 81 10 2327 15 32.77 32.17 92.74
8 MJ Guptill 93 3 2758 19 30.64 30.37 87.56
9 GJ Maxwell 90 12 2315 13 29.68 30.12 86.83
10 RG Sharma 109 14 2810 23 29.58 29.36 84.63

ATTACKING

R SR

Relative Strike Rate (R SR) is calculated using the same method as R Ave with average being replaced with SR.

CRITERIA: Points For R SR

Min Qualification For TS
Min Runs 1000
Min Average 20

Against Top Teams

RANK BATSMAN RUNS BF SR R SR RAT
TS Ab Sharma 1010 518 194.98 184.93 250.00
1 Ab Sharma 1010 518 194.98 184.93 250.00
2 FH Allen 1137 629 180.76 177.37 239.79
3 SA Yadav 2367 1468 161.24 160.84 217.44
4 GJ Maxwell 2315 1466 157.91 158.40 214.14
5 JC Buttler 3477 2321 149.81 149.42 202.01
6 AJ Finch 2327 1625 143.20 143.35 193.80
7 RG Sharma 2810 1998 140.64 141.37 191.11
8 V Kohli 3376 2433 138.76 140.73 190.25
9 MJ Guptill 2758 2019 136.60 137.94 186.48
10 Babar Azam 3224 2470 130.53 130.59 176.55

BIG INNINGS POTENTIAL

Ave HS

In this criteria, the top 5 scores of the batsman have been taken. Average High Score (Ave HS) is simply the total runs in the 5 innings divided by 5.

Criteria: Points For Runs Scored In The Top 5 Inns

Against Top Teams

RANK ERA 1 1 2 3 4 5 AVE HS RAT
TS GJ Maxwell 145* 120* 113* 104* 103* 117.00 100.00
1 GJ Maxwell 145* 120* 113* 104* 103* 117.00 100.00
2 RG Sharma 118 111* 106 100* 92 105.40 90.09
3 AJ Finch 156 89 84 79* 74 96.40 82.39
4 MJ Guptill 105 101* 97 87* 80 94.00 80.34
5 V Kohli 94* 90* 89* 85 82* 88.00 75.21
6 JC Buttler 96 84 83* 83 83 85.80 73.33
RANK ERA 2 1 2 3 4 5 AVE HS RAT
TS PD Salt 141* 119 109* 103* 88* 112.00 100.00
1 SA Yadav 117 112* 111* 100 83 104.60 93.39
2 Babar Azam 122 110* 101* 97* 90 104.00 92.86
3 FH Allen 137 100* 83 80 74 94.80 84.64
4 Ab Sharma 135 84 79 74 68* 88.00 78.57

QUICK INNINGS POTENTIAL

QI SR

In this criteria, we have taken the top 5 innings of the batsman with highest strike rate. Quick Innings Strike Rate (QI SR) is the Relative SR of the batsmen in the 5 innings.

Criteria: Points For Runs Scored In The Top 5 Inns

Against Top Teams

RANK BATSMAN 1 2 3 4 5 QI SR RAT
TS Shahid Afridi 25/7 24/8 23/8 28/10 28/11 306.45 300.00
1 FH Allen 100/33 42/16 50/20 38/16 34/15 259.05 253.59
2 AJ Finch 20/5 36/14 156/63 37/16 40/18 249.41 244.15
3 Ab Sharma 68/20 135/54 52/21 84/35 31/13 245.40 240.23
4 JC Buttler 32/10 83/30 25/11 71/32 68/32 241.99 236.89
5 RG Sharma 118/43 21/9 46/20 92/41 62/28 241.67 236.58
6 GJ Maxwell 47/18 66/29 25/11 43/19 70/31 233.12 228.21
7 SA Yadav 61/22 58/26 82/37 112/51 57/26 227.83 223.03
8 MJ Guptill 63/25 50/20 42/19 31/15 105/54 220.94 216.29
9 V Kohli 70/29 26/11 38/20 72/38 89/47 206.34 201.99
10 Babar Azam 23/11 122/59 101/58 85/49 50/29 185.04 181.15

TOP TEAMS RATING

The TOP TEAMS (TT) Rating is the addition of the points of all the above criteria. The rating is out of 1,000.

RANK BATSMAN PRO CON ATT BIP QIP TT RAT
1 JC Buttler 200.00 100.42 202.01 73.33 236.89 812.65
2 V Kohli 194.19 141.51 190.25 75.21 201.99 803.16
3 SA Yadav 146.84 100.57 217.44 93.39 223.03 781.27
4 Babar Azam 200.00 115.87 176.55 92.86 181.15 766.42
5 RG Sharma 161.63 84.63 191.11 90.09 236.58 764.04
6 GJ Maxwell 133.16 86.83 214.14 100.00 228.21 762.35
7 AJ Finch 133.85 92.74 193.80 82.39 244.15 746.94
8 FH Allen 70.53 93.94 239.79 84.64 253.59 742.50
9 Ab Sharma 62.66 102.29 250.00 78.57 240.23 733.75
10 MJ Guptill 158.64 87.56 186.48 80.34 216.29 729.32

BRIEF EXPLANATION

Dynamic Nature

Most of our ratings are dynamic, and as new matches are played, the rating of earlier batsmen may change if current batsmen set new benchmarks.

Trend Setter (TS)

  1. TS is the player who does the best in a criteria.
  2. The rating of all other players are calculated taking the TS as the benchmark. Example:-
  3. TS Runs: 2,000; Player X Runs: 1,000; Section Points: 250.00
  4. TS Points: 250.00 (Max)
  5. Player X Points: Runs/TS Runs X 250 = 1,000/2,000 X 250 = 125.00.
  6. Ratings of all sections are calculated similarly with Runs being replaced by the Criteria Stat.
  7. Know All About the Trend Setter
    8. .

Top Inns by SR (QIP) Qualification

  1. Runs Scored in the innings must be more than 20
  2. They should also be more than 10% of runs scored by the team with the higher total.

Abbreviations

  1. AVE - Average or Runs/(Inns - Not Out)
  2. BF - Balls Faced
  3. DIS - Dismissals or (Inns - Not Out)
  4. FP - First Played by Year
  5. INF - Infinite
  6. INNS - Innings
  7. LP - Last Played by Year
  8. MP - Middle Played or (FP+LP)/2
  9. NA - Not Applicable
  10. NI - Not In Top
  11. NK - Not Known
  12. NO, * - Not Out
  13. NQ - Not Qualified
  14. OPP - Opposition
  15. PTS - Points
  16. RAT - Rating
  17. SR - Strike Rate or Runs/Balls
  18. TS - Trend Setter
  19. TT - Top Teams
  20. WTG - Weightage

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