Cricket is generally known as a batsman’s game these days as compared to earlier when both batting and bowling tended to be more balanced. Yet, there were batsmen who shone earlier even as teenagers and broke records at a very young age. If we talk about cricketing stats and particularly batting records, it is a crime to not speak about Sachin Tendulkar because he created and broke so many records during his international career for India.
There is no surprise here as well because he holds the record of scoring the most international runs as a teenager. An interesting fact is that there are many batsmen from Pakistan and Bangaldesh on this list and just two Indian batsmen apart from Sachin Tendulkar. This list contains batsmen who have made more than 500 runs when their age was 19 or lesser.
Here are the batsmen with most international runs at the age of 19:
Player | Nation | M | R | HS | Ave | 100s |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sachin Tendulkar | India | 81 | 3042 | 165 | 37.55 | 5 |
Shahid Afridi | Pakistan | 106 | 2548 | 141 | 24.26 | 3 |
Tamim Iqbal | Bangaldesh | 72 | 1897 | 129 | 23.71 | 1 |
Umar Akmal | Pakistan | 33 | 1390 | 129 | 42.12 | 2 |
Alok Kapali | Bangladesh | 46 | 1231 | 89* | 21.98 | 0 |
Mohammad Ashraful | Bangaldesh | 49 | 1226 | 114 | 19.15 | 1 |
Brendan Taylor | Zimbabwe | 39 | 1106 | 78 | 22.57 | 0 |
Imran Nazir | Pakistan | 40 | 1032 | 131 | 24.57 | 2 |
Mushtaq Mohammad | Pakistan | 14 | 868 | 101 | 37.73 | 2 |
Parthiv Patel | India | 33 | 801 | 69 | 26.70 | 0 |
Ijaz Ahmed | Pakistan | 40 | 769 | 72 | 20.23 | 0 |
Javed Miandad | Pakistan | 11 | 769 | 206 | 54.92 | 2 |
Nafees Iqbal | Bangladesh | 25 | 759 | 121 | 22.32 | 1 |
Aftab Ahmed | Bangladesh | 30 | 755 | 82* | 21.57 | 0 |
Shakib Al Hasan | Bangaldesh | 23 | 746 | 134* | 49.73 | 1 |
PA de Silva | Sri Lanka | 24 | 693 | 122 | 30.13 | 1 |
PR Stirling | Ireland | 24 | 682 | 87 | 29.65 | 0 |
Elton Chigumbura | Zimbabwe | 30 | 638 | 77 | 19.93 | 0 |
Usman Ghani | Afghanistan | 23 | 624 | 118 | 27.13 | 1 |
Suresh Raina | India | 34 | 589 | 81* | 26.77 | 0 |
Ahmed Shehzad | Pakistan | 25 | 580 | 115 | 24.16 | 2 |
Zahid Fasal | Pakistan | 23 | 556 | 98* | 23.16 | 0 |
Tatenda Taibu | Zimbabwe | 38 | 536 | 74* | 21.44 | 0 |
Daniel Vettori | New Zealand | 47 | 536 | 90 | 16.75 | 0 |
AN Kervezee | Netherlands | 26 | 527 | 75 | 25.09 | 0 |
Rajin Saleh | Bangladesh | 13 | 515 | 71 | 28.61 | 0 |
Here is another table that shows the team-wise distribution of batsmen with more than 500 international runs at the age of 19 till date.
Surprisingly, there is not a single batsman from Australia, South Africa and England in this list while there are eight batsmen from Pakistan, seven batsmen from Bangladesh. three batsmen each from Zimbabwe and India and one batsman each from New Zealand, Ireland, Netherlands, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan present.
Count | Team name |
---|---|
8 | Paksitan |
7 | Bangladesh |
3 | India |
Zimbabwe | |
1 | Ireland |
Netherlands | |
New Zealand | |
Sri Lanka | |
Afghanistan |
NOTE: Stats are updated as of 2 July 2016.
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