Most Fifties in T20 Cricket: Top 15 Players

Who has scored the most fifties in T20 cricket? Counting every T20 match (internationals, IPL and all franchise and domestic leagues), David Warner leads with 118 fifties, ahead of Virat Kohli (110) and Jos Buttler (108). Babar Azam is the fourth batter to pass 100.

In ESPNcricinfo’s records a “fifty” is a score of 50 to 99; hundreds are counted separately. The figures below come from its career list for all T20 cricket at the time of this update.

Most fifties in T20 cricket (all T20 matches)

#	Player	Matches	Runs	100s	50s
1	David Warner	439	14,284	10	118
2	Virat Kohli	430	14,218	10	110
3	Jos Buttler	529	15,062	9	108
4	Babar Azam	359	12,493	13	101
5	Alex Hales	537	14,581	7	93
6	James Vince	502	14,187	9	91
7	Faf du Plessis	450	12,782	9	89
8	Chris Gayle	463	14,562	22	88
9	Quinton de Kock	463	13,046	10	85
10	Rohit Sharma	472	12,531	8	84
11	Shoaib Malik	557	13,571	0	83
12	Colin Munro	486	12,626	6	78
13	Aaron Finch	387	11,458	8	77
14	Dawid Malan	399	11,003	5	76
15	Jason Roy	449	11,519	7	75

Key points

Warner reached 118 fifties in 439 matches, the most of any batter.
Kohli (110 fifties, 10 hundreds) is the leading Indian and the only one above 100.
Buttler is third for fifties but first for runs, with 15,062.
Chris Gayle has “only” 88 fifties because he turned 22 innings into hundreds, a T20 record.
Shoaib Malik has 83 fifties without a single T20 hundred.

Indian batters with the most T20 fifties

Player	Matches	Runs	100s	50s
Virat Kohli	430	14,218	10	110
Rohit Sharma	472	12,531	8	84
KL Rahul	253	8,718	8	73
Shikhar Dhawan	334	9,797	2	70
Suryakumar Yadav	373	9,729	6	65
Sanju Samson	359	9,213	8	59
Ajinkya Rahane	308	7,968	2	56
Suresh Raina	336	8,654	4	53
Ishan Kishan	265	7,547	7	44
Shubman Gill	191	6,144	7	38