A Twenty20 International is an international cricket match between two representative teams. A Twenty20 International is played under the rules of Twenty20 cricket. First men's Twenty20 International was contested between Australia and New Zealand on 17 February 2005 at Eden Park, Auckland which was won by Australia by 44 runs. In 2005 only 2 T20I matches took place followed by 3 matches in 2006. The number of matches grew in 2007 because of the inaugural T20 World Cup.

In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant full Twenty20 International (T20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between any ICC members after 1 January 2019 will have T20I status. Hence the number of matches for every calendar year increased a lot.

The following is a list of players who have scored most runs in each of the calendar years starting from 2005, till date. The matches played between 1 January and 31 December (both dates inclusive) of each year, are considered to be part of every calendar year. Till date, Austria's Karanveer Singh has scored most runs in a calendar year when he finished 2025 with total runs of 1488 from 32 innings.

Key Mat. – Number of matches played Inn. – Number of innings batted HS – Highest score Avg – Runs scored per dismissal S/R – Strike rate (runs scored per 100 balls) 100 – Centuries scored 50 – Half-centuries scored Ref. & Scorecard – Scorecard of the match in which player reached 1,000 runs

Most T20I runs in each calendar year Player list and statistics are updated as of 31 December 2025. + Leading T20I run-scorer in each calendar year Year Player Country Mat. Inn. Runs HS Avg. S/R 100 50 Ref 2005 2 2 98 98.00 168.96 0 1 2006 3 3 127 63.50 120.95 0 1 2007 8 8 302 60.40 143.80 0 4 2008 4 4 169 42.25 146.95 0 2 2009 12 12 471 42.81 141.44 0 5 2010 18 17 441 29.40 123.18 0 3 2011 5 5 195 39.00 172.56 0 3 2012 12 12 472 47.20 130.74 1 2 2013 12 12 347 31.54 121.32 0 2 2014 12 12 397 36.09 142.80 1 1 2015 11 11 297 27.00 156.31 0 3 2016 15 13 641 106.83 140.26 0 7 2017 9 9 357 44.62 154.54 1 2 2018 18 17 689 40.52 147.22 0 6 2019 20 20 748 41.55 140.60 0 8 2020 10 8 415 83.00 152.57 0 4 2021 29 26 1326 73.66 134.89 1 12 2022 31 31 1164 46.56 187.43 2 9 2023 23 23 863 39.22 162.52 0 7 2024 26 26 909 39.52 160.03 1 8 2025 32 32 1488 51.31 174.85 2 13

See also List of Twenty20 International cricket records

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