Sri Lanka National Cricket Team vs Pakistan National Cricket Team Match:\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0opener Sahibzada Farhan set a new record for the most runs in a single edition of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 during the Super 8 Group 2 match against Sri Lanka\u00a0at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium on Saturday, February 28, 2026. Farhan went past the previous mark of 319 runs set by India\u2019s Virat Kohli in the 2014 tournament. The right-hander now has 323 runs in the ongoing edition and is the leading run-scorer of the competition.<\/p>\n
He has scored one century and two half-centuries in the tournament and has been central to Pakistan\u2019s campaign. His consistent performances at the top of the order have kept the team in contention for a semi-final spot.<\/p>\n
The list of highest run-scorers in a single T20 World Cup edition includes Tillakaratne Dilshan\u2019s 317 runs in 2009 and Babar Azam\u2019s 303 runs in 2021. Other notable performances include Mahela Jayawardene\u2019s 302 runs in 2010 and Kohli\u2019s 296 runs in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka National Cricket Team vs Pakistan National Cricket Team Match:\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0opener Sahibzada Farhan set a new record for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,40807,740,1950,111965,73449,224388,88405,21406,10388,160184,105970,109330,85,160183,48682,221724,255824,255825,2131],"class_list":{"0":"post-510398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-babar-azam","11":"tag-cricket","12":"tag-cricket-news","13":"tag-dasun-shanaka","14":"tag-fakhar-zaman","15":"tag-icc-t20-world-cup","16":"tag-mohammad-nawaz","17":"tag-naseem-shah","18":"tag-pakistan-national-cricket-team","19":"tag-pakistan-vs-sri-lanka","20":"tag-sahibzada-farhan","21":"tag-shaheen-afridi","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-sri-lanka-national-cricket-team","24":"tag-t20-world-cup","25":"tag-t20-world-cup-2026","26":"tag-t20-world-cup-2026-squad","27":"tag-t20-world-cup-semifinal-scenarios","28":"tag-virat-kohli"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}