Instances when wicket-keeper batsmen top scored the innings of a T20I match

Before 2000, we have seen wicket-keepers were not considered as good batsmen but after 2000, cricket is changed in many ways so does a wicket-keeper’s role. Now-a-days, selectors pick a wicket-keeper batsman by keeping in mind his batting and wicket-keeping abilities and we have seen many good wicket-keeper batsmen after 2000 like Kumar Sangakkara, Adam Gilchrist and in last 5 years MS Dhoni, AB de Villiers etc. In T20 cricket, we have seen in IPL that many team tried to play with non-regular wicket-keepers just to make the balance of the team and many times those gambles also paid off so it is necessary that if you are a wicket-keeper in this age then you have to be a better batsman and that we saw from Mohammad Shahzad recently in a T20I match against Scotland when he remained as top-scorer of the innings by scoring 61 runs from 39 balls at Nagpur on March 8, 2016.

Do you know how many times a wicket-keeper batsmen top scored the innings of a T20I match?

There are 141 instances when wicket-keeper batsmen top scored the innings of a T20I match. Here is the full list of that with all details of those innings.

Here is a list of wicket-keeper batsmen with more than 5 times in his career while playing for respective top-scored the innings of a T20i match.

Here is a table which shows year-wise howmany times this was happened.

Bonus Trivia:

There were 8 T20I matches when in both the innings wicket-keeper batsmen from each side top-sored the innings.

Note:

‘*’ sign indicates that in these innings along with wicket-keeper batsmen other batsmen also remained as the top-scorer.

Here, matches with no result have not been considered.

All stats updated till 14th March 2016.