Stats: Most runs in a season in List A cricket in India

Dinesh Karthik scored his runs at an average of 85.4, strike-rate of 105.56 and struck 3 centuries and 5 fifties during this season.

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Dinesh Karthik raises his bat after scoring his 10th List A hundred in the final of Deodhar Trophy (Photo Source: Twitter)

Dinesh Karthik ended the 2016/17 domestic in style with some consistent performances throughout the 50-over domestic competitions; Vijay Hazare Trophy and Deodhar Trophy. He scored 854 runs across two tournaments and played a major role in his stateside Tamil Nadu’s success in being crowned as the Vijay Hazare Trophy and Deodhar Trophy champions.

Despite playing only 12 List A games in the 2016/17 season, his tally of 854 runs is the 4th most in a season in List A cricket in India. The record for most runs in a season in List A cricket on Indian soil is held by Sachin Tendulkar, who scored 1159 runs in 1995/96 season. Dinesh Karthik scored his runs at an average of 85.4, strike-rate of 105.56 and struck 3 centuries and 5 fifties during this season. All his runs have come for Tamil Nadu. The previous most List A runs scored by a player for a team in an Indian season was 695 runs by Sachin in 2009/10 season, where he scored those runs for India in ODIs.

Most runs in List A cricket in an Indian season:

NameTeamsSeasonMatchesInnsRunsHSAve100s50s
Sachin TendulkarIndia, Bombay, India A, Wills XI1995/96212111591376146
Sachin TendulkarIndia, Bombay, India Seniors1994/9517171040120*6548
Ajay JadejaIndia, Haryana, Board President’s XI, India Seniors1997/9821201028116*79.0738
Dinesh KarthikTamil Nadu2016/17121285412685.435
Robin UthappaKarnataka, India A, South Zone, India Red2013/14171782013351.2541
Sridharan SriramTamil Nadu, India A, South Zone2003/041616813105*54.218
Sachin TendulkarIndia, India Seniors1996/97131377611764.6644
VVS LaxmanIndia, Hyderabad, South Zone, India Seniors2000/01161677410151.616
Mohammad KaifIndia, Uttar Pradesh, Central Zone, India B2001/02181776212054.4217
Sanjay ManjrekarIndia, Mumbai, West Zone, India A1996/971414760127*7616
Vinod KambliIndia, Mumbai, West Zone, India Seniors1997/981717758136*47.3722
MS DhoniIndia, Jharkhand, India A2016/17171675513458.0723
Abhinav MukundTamil Nadu, South Zone, India Blue2009/10101073913073.926
Dinesh MongiaIndia, Punjab, North Zone, India B2001/022121738159*4122
Yuvraj SinghIndia, India Seniors2005/06201972410351.7125

Karthik scored 8 fifty-plus scores in the 12 List A innings in this season, the joint 5th most scores of fifty and more for any player in a single List A season in India. Sachin had 12 fifty-plus scores in 17 innings in 1994/95 season. Among the players with 8 or more fifty-plus scores in an Indian season, Karthik’s rate is the 2nd best behind Abhinav Mukund’s 8 fifty-plus scores in 10 List A innings in 2009/10 season.

Most fifty-plus scores in List A cricket in an Indian season:

NameTeamsSeasonMatchesInns50+100s50sRuns
Sachin TendulkarIndia, Bombay, India Seniors1994/95171712481040
Ajay JadejaIndia, Haryana, Board President’s XI, India Seniors1997/98212011381028
Sachin TendulkarIndia, Bombay, India A, Wills XI1995/96212110461159
Sridharan SriramTamil Nadu, India A, South Zone2003/041616918813
Dinesh KarthikTamil Nadu2016/171212835854
Sachin TendulkarIndia, India Seniors1996/971313844776
Mohammad KaifIndia, Uttar Pradesh, Central Zone, India B2001/021817817762
Abhinav MukundTamil Nadu, South Zone, India Blue2009/101010826739
Amay KhurasiyaIndia, Madhya Pradesh, Central Zone, India A, India Seniors1998/991515817701

(Stats updated till 29th March 2017)

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