Shubman Gill Emulates Sachin Tendulkar And Matthew Hayden, Becomes Joint Quickest to 1500 ODI Runs in a Calendar Year

Star India cricketer Shubman Gill has joined an elusive list of batters to have scored 1500 or more ODI runs in a calendar year.

Gill achieved the milestone during his brisk half-century against the Netherlands in India’s final league match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 in Bengaluru on Sunday.

Gill took 27 innings to score his 1500th run in 2023 and is now the joint-quickest to do so alongside the legendary batting duo of Sachin Tendulkar and Matthew Hayden.

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In fact, in the history of men’s ODIs, Gill is just the sixth batter to score 1500 runs or more in a calendar year.

Tendulkar (1996, 1998), Sourav Ganguly (1999, 2000), Rahul Dravid (1999), Hayden (2007) and Saeed Anwar (1996) are the other five batters to have done so.

Tendulkar holds the record for most ODI runs scored in a calendar year when he struck an astounding 1894 runs in 1998 including nine centuries and seven half-centuries while averaging 65.31 and a strike-rate of 102.15.

The 24-year-old Gill has scored 270 runs from seven innings so far in the ongoing competition. He missed India’s first two matches of the campaign as he was suffering from dengue.

Gill was declared fit enough to play against Pakistan in Ahmedabad, his debut world cup match at the senior level. Since then, the India opener has struck three half-centuries including an individual best of 92 against Sri Lanka at the Wankhede Stadium.

Gill is the currently the leading run-getter in ODIs this year with 1500 runs from 27 innings followed by Virat Kohli at the second spot and Rohit Sharma at third.

As many as seven batters have recorded 1,000 or more runs in ODIs thus far in 2023.

Meanwhile, India will take on New Zealand in the first semi-final of the world cup 2023, slated to be held at the Wankhede next week.

India were the first team to make it to the last-four followed by South Africa, Australia and New Zealand this time around.

In the second semis, Australia will lock horns with South Africa at Eden Gardens in Kolkata.