For a batter who gets a shorter time on the field in a T20I game, scoring 80-plus is almost equivalent to a century. Many useful 80-plus scores in the T20Is have won games for teams.
Especially for someone who bats down the order, there are not many balls to face or a target to accumulate a big score. When you see the T20I century lists by teams, you can see that the major contributors to the three-digit scores are mostly openers.
This article will pay tribute to batters who almost made it to the century score but fell short by a little, the most number of times. Here are the batters with the most 80+ scores in T20I cricket.
Most 80+ Scores in T20Is
| Player | Team | 80+ Scores |
|---|---|---|
| Rohit Sharma | India | 11 |
| Muhammad Waseem | UAE | 10 |
| Babar Azam | Pakistan | 9 |
| Karanbir Singh | Austria | 9 |
| Virat Kohli | India | 9 |
| Mohammad Rizwan | Pakistan | 9 |
| Jos Buttler | England | 8 |
| Phil Salt | England | 8 |
| Martin Guptill | New Zealand | 7 |
| Chris Gayle | West Indies | 6 |
| Alex Hales | England | 6 |
| Sikandar Raza | Zimbabwe | 6 |
| Suryakumar Yadav | India | 6 |
Key Insights on Most 80+ Scores in T20 Internationals
Top T20I Batters with 80+ Scores and Century Conversion
India’s Rohit Sharma was the first batter to smash 10 scores of 80 or more runs in T20I cricket.
Rohit converted five of his 11 80-plus scores into centuries, the joint-most by a batter in T20Is.
Australia’s Glenn Maxwell is the other batter who converted all five of his 80-plus knocks into hundreds in T20Is.
Pakistan’s Babar Azam is the only batter to score more than 40 knocks of 50 or more runs in T20Is. He has converted around 22 per cent of his fifty-plus knocks into 80-plus scores.
Wicketkeeper and Captaincy Achievements for 80+ Knocks
Mohammad Rizwan (Pakistan), Jos Buttler (England), and Rahmanullah Gurbaz (Afghanistan) are the three wicketkeeper-batters with five or more 80-plus scores in T20Is.
Rohit, Babar, and Muhammad Waseem (UAE) are the three captains who have scored five or more 80-plus knocks in T20Is.
Home, Year, and Opponent-wise 80+ Knocks
Babar, Rohit, and Rizwan have smashed five or more 80-plus scores in their respective home countries.
Austria’s Karanbir Singh has scored the most 80-plus knocks in a calendar year in T20Is. He brought up eight knocks of 80 or more runs in 2025.
Rizwan has brought up two or more 80-plus scores against three opponent teams – England, New Zealand, and Zimbabwe – the most by a batter in T20Is.
Record-Breaking Power-Hitting and Fastest Milestones
Turkey’s Muhammad Fahad has recorded the highest strike rate for an 80-plus score in a T20I innings. He hammered 120 runs from 34 balls at a strike rate of 352.94 against Bulgaria in the 2025 tri-series in Sofia.
Fahad scored 93 of his 120 runs in the powerplay overs. This is the only instance of a batter scoring 80 or more runs in the powerplay in a T20I innings.
Fahad went on to bring up his century off 29 balls, the second fastest by a batter in T20I cricket.
The quickest T20I hundred belongs to Estonia’s Sahil Chauhan, who needed just 27 deliveries to score one against Cyprus in 2024.
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