During the ongoing edition of the SA20, James Vince became the eighth batter to breach the 13,000-mark in T20 cricket.
James Vince reaches 13,000 T20 runs
Chasing 235 against MI Cape Town at the Wanderers, the Joburg Super Kings became 35-3 when Dian Forrester joined opener Vince. Both batters took on the bowling, and Vince raced to his fifty off 29 balls.
Soon afterwards, he lofted Trent Boult for consecutive sixes and retained the strike. Off the first ball of the next over, bowled by Corbin Bosch, he hit an airborne shot towards sweeper cover: the fielder leapt, but the ball went for four off his fingertips.
The shot took Vince to 71 – and 13,000 runs in all T20 cricket. He became the third English batter, after Alex Hales (14,449) and Jos Buttler (13,651) – and eighth overall to reach the milestone. He fell six runs later, taking his tally to 13,006. Just above Vince on the list is Virat Kohli (13,543).
A member of England’s first ODI World Cup winning squad, in 2019, Vince was evaluated as the “unluckiest” batter in the world by CricViz. The leading run-scorer for Hampshire for four consecutive seasons, he led them to the top three in the County Championship when he quit the format in 2025, in the aftermath of the ECB’s NOC rule.
He has not played first-class cricket since 2024 and List A cricket since 2023, but has been a regular in T20s. Since the start of 2025, he has played for the Sydney Sixers in the BBL, for the Gulf Giants in the ILT20, for the Rangpur Riders in the BPL, for the Karachi Kings in the PSL, for Hampshire in the Blast, for Southern Brave in The Hundred, and now for JSK in the SA20.
Match 20, Joburg Super Kings vs MI Cape Town
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Most runs in men’s T20 cricket
Until January 10, 2026
| Batter | National team | Matches | Runs | SR | Average | 100s |
| Chris Gayle | West Indies | 463 | 14,562 | 145 | 36.22 | 22 |
| Kieron Pollard | West Indies | 733 | 14,462 | 151 | 31.71 | 1 |
| Alex Hales | England | 528 | 14,449 | 145 | 29.91 | 7 |
| David Warner | Australia | 431 | 13,918 | 140 | 36.82 | 9 |
| Jos Buttler | England | 479 | 13,651 | 147 | 35.73 | 8 |
| Shoaib Malik | Pakistan | 557 | 13,571 | 127 | 35.99 | 0 |
| Virat Kohli | India | 414 | 13,543 | 135 | 41.92 | 9 |
| James Vince | England | 466 | 13,006 | 136 | 31.95 | 7 |
| Rohit Sharma | India | 463 | 12,248 | 135 | 30.85 | 8 |
| Faf du Plessis | South Africa | 431 | 12,041 | 137 | 32.80 | 8 |
Gayle has been at the top spot for a few years, but Pollard and Hales are now in a race to displace him. Now 13 runs ahead of Hales, Pollard is exactly 100 behind Gayle. Both Pollard and Hales played in the ILT20, which got over on January 4, and have not played since then.
