Most Runs in World Test Championship 2021-23 – Updated List

Most Runs in World Test Championship
WTC Trophy

Most Runs in World Test Championship: ICC announces a Test Championship tournament as of World Cups for ODI and T20I format under the name of “World Test Championship”.

Earlier ICC plans to host the competition in 2013, replacing the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, were abandoned. It was rescheduled for June 2017, with a second Test championship to take place in India in Feb-March 2021.

However, in January 2014 the ICC World Test Championship was cancelled and the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy was reinstated.

In October 2017, the ICC announced that a Test league had been agreed by its members, which would involve the top nine teams playing series over two years with the top two teams qualifying for a World Test League Championship Final.

The first ICC World Test Championship started with the 2019 Ashes series and finished with New Zealand lifting the trophy after defeating India in the final in June 2021.

The second ICC World Test Championship was started on 4 August 2021 with the 5-match Pataudi Trophy.

New Zealand won the inaugural edition of WTC
New Zealand won the inaugural edition of WTC

Most Runs in WTC 2021-23

Test cricket format provides the necessary time for a player to create as many as records in cricket compared to other cricket formats. A player can score a massive run if he stands long enough with a good striking rate.

Setting a massive target for the chasing team will put pressure on their batting. Thus every player will be keen to score as many runs as possible to move the team’s score beyond expected.

Following are the list of players with the most runs in WTC 2021-23:

Player Mat Inns Runs HS Ave SR 100 50
JE Root (ENG) 22 40 1915 180* 53.19 60.81 8 6
UT Khawaja (AUS) 16 28 1608 195* 69.91 50.4 6 7
Babar Azam (PAK) 14 26 1527 196 61.08 53.15 4 10
M Labuschagne (AUS) 19 33 1509 204 53.89 53.34 5 5
JM Bairstow (ENG) 15 28 1285 162 51.4 68.9 6 2
SPD Smith (AUS) 19 30 1252 200* 50.08 47.56 3 6
TM Head (AUS) 17 26 1208 175 52.52 80.69 3 6
Litton Das (BAN) 12 22 1024 141 46.54 56.82 3 6
KC Brathwaite (WI) 13 26 994 160 43.21 39.05 2 7
Abdullah Shafique (PAK) 12 23 992 160* 47.23 41.47 3 4
BA Stokes (ENG) 18 32 971 120 32.36 63.17 2 4
DJ Mitchell (NZ) 10 17 943 190 62.86 52.94 4 5
TWM Latham (NZ) 12 22 939 252 44.71 52.05 2 6
Imam-ul-Haq (PAK) 9 18 932 157 54.82 47.52 3 4
FDM Karunaratne (SL) 11 21 914 147 45.7 51.96 2 6
T Bavuma (SA) 12 24 900 172 45 49.72 1 5
Z Crawley (ENG) 17 33 894 122 27.93 61.86 2 3
CA Pujara (IND) 16 30 887 102* 32.85 42.09 1 6
AD Mathews (SL) 11 19 879 199 51.7 47.61 3 2
V Kohli (IND) 16 28 869 186 32.18 44.84 1 3
RR Pant (IND) 12 21 868 146 43.4 80.81 2 5
LD Chandimal (SL) 9 16 859 206* 71.58 54.33 2 4
DA Warner (AUS) 17 28 847 200 31.37 59.43 1 4
OJ Pope (ENG) 14 26 844 145 33.76 66.04 2 6
DP Conway (NZ) 10 18 806 122 47.41 52.54 3 3
TA Blundell (NZ) 12 21 802 106 42.21 48.28 1 7
D Elgar (SA) 15 29 799 96* 28.53 49.62 0 6
J Blackwood (WI) 13 24 722 102 31.39 47.43 1 3
C Green (AUS) 16 21 705 114 39.16 51.27 1 5
RG Sharma (IND) 10 17 700 127 43.75 49.53 2 2
AT Carey (AUS) 19 25 689 111 31.31 59.86 1 3
RA Jadeja (IND) 12 19 673 175* 37.38 48.1 2 3
SS Iyer (IND) 10 16 666 105 44.4 65.81 1 5
DM de Silva (SL) 10 19 655 155* 38.52 58.84 2 2
KL Rahul (IND) 11 21 636 129 30.28 40.69 2 2
Mushfiqur Rahim (BAN) 9 17 625 175* 41.66 42.25 2 2
Saud Shakeel (PAK) 5 10 580 125* 72.5 41.66 1 5
Azhar Ali (PAK) 10 18 563 185 33.11 41.7 1 2
Mohammad Rizwan (PAK) 12 21 553 104* 32.52 51.2 1 1
KD Petersen (SA) 9 17 552 82 32.47 50.13 0 4
KS Williamson (NZ) 6 11 537 200* 59.66 44.41 2 0
K Verreynne (SA) 12 20 533 136* 31.35 55.06 1 2
J Da Silva (WI) 13 22 484 100* 26.88 36.22 1 1
BKG Mendis (SL) 8 14 481 87 34.35 58.65 0 5
HC Brook (ENG) 4 6 480 153 80 92.13 3 1
SJ Erwee (SA) 10 19 479 108 26.61 43.27 1 1
Shubman Gill (IND) 7 13 476 128 36.61 59.27 2 1
AK Markram (SA) 9 17 461 115 27.11 55.2 1 1
Najmul Hossain Shanto (BAN) 12 23 460 67 20 44.48 0 2
AR Patel (IND) 9 14 458 84 45.8 55.38 0 4

Most Half-century in WTC 2021-23

Following are the details of the players with most half-centuries in the current World Test Championship series. Players with the same number of half-centuries are listed based on their position in most runs in WTC 2021-23 table.

Following are the list of the top 10 players with the most number of half-centuries in WTC 2021-23:

Player 50
Babar Azam (PAK) 10
UT Khawaja (AUS) 7
KC Brathwaite (WI) 7
TA Blundell (NZ) 7
JE Root (ENG) 6
SPD Smith (AUS) 6
TM Head (AUS) 6
Litton Das (BAN) 6
TWM Latham (NZ) 6
FDM Karunaratne (SL) 6

Most Century in WTC 2021-23

Following are the details of the players with the most centuries in the current World Test Championship series. Players with the same number of centuries are listed based on their position in most runs in WTC 2021-23 table.

Following are the list of the top 10 players with the most centuries in WTC 2021-23:

Player 100
JE Root (ENG) 8
UT Khawaja (AUS) 6
JM Bairstow (ENG) 6
M Labuschagne (AUS) 5
Babar Azam (PAK) 4
DJ Mitchell (NZ) 4
SPD Smith (AUS) 3
TM Head (AUS) 3
Litton Das (BAN) 3
Abdullah Shafique (PAK) 3

WTC 2019-21 Records

Most Runs in WTC 2019-21 

The Australian batsman Marnus Labuschagne bags the number 1 position of the Most Runs in WTC 2021 list with 1675 runs. England skipper Joe Root placed just behind him with a close difference of just 15 runs.

Following are the top 10 Most Runs scorers in WTC 2021:

S. No. Name Matches Innings Runs HS Average Strike Rate 100 50
1 Marnus Labuschagne 13 23 1675 215 72.82 55.85 5 9
2 Joe Root 20 37 1660 228 47.42 54.65 3 8
3 Steven Smith 13 22 1341 211 63.85 53.44 4 7
4 Ben Stokes 17 32 1334 176 46 57.79 4 6
5 Ajinkya Rahane 17 28 1095 115 43.8 47.25 3 6
6 Rohit Sharma 11 17 1030 212 64.37 64.49 4 2
7 Dimuth Karunaratne 10 18 999 244 55.5 53.33 4 4
8 Jos Buttler 18 31 963 152 33.2 52.88 1 4
9 David Warner 12 22 948 335* 47.4 62.4 3 1
10 Babar Azam 10 17 932 143 66.57 64.14 4 5

Highest individual scores in WTC 2019-21 

Australian batsman David Warner crowns the position of the Highest individual scores in WTC 2021 with a massive 335 not out against Pakistan. Following are the top 10 Highest individual scores in WTC 2021:

Batsman Country Score Opposition Venue Month/Year
David Warner Australia 335* Pakistan Adelaide November 2019
Zak Crawley England 267 Pakistan Southampton August 2020
Virat Kohli India 254* South Africa Pune October 2019
Kane Williamson New Zealand 251 West Indies Hamilton December 2020
Dimuth Karunaratne Sri Lanka 244 Bangladesh Pallekele April 2021
Mayank Agarwal India 243 Bangladesh Indore November 2019
Kane Williamson New Zealand 238 Pakistan Christchurch January 2021
Joe Root England 228 Sri Lanka Galle January 2021
Joe Root England 218 India Chennai February 2021
Mayank Agarwal India 215 South Africa Visakhapatnam October 2019