Caribbean Premier League 2024 is currently being played in West Indies. West Indies star batsman Nicholas Pooran is looking in great form in this league. He has played many important innings this season and is breaking records one after the other. Nicholas Pooran performed another big feat in the match being played between the teams of Trinbago Knight Riders and Barbados Royals. This time he broke a world record of Pakistani batsman Mohammad Rizwan. This record was made by Mohammad Rizwan in the year 2021.

This world record of Mohammad Rizwan was broken

Pakistani batsman Mohammad Rizwan had made a big record in his name in the year 2021. He scored 2036 runs in T20 cricket that year, which was the world record for scoring the most runs in a calendar year of T20 cricket. But now this record has been broken. In the current year, Nicholas Pooran has scored even more runs than this. Nicholas Pooran has now scored 2059 runs in the year 2024 and he has now become the batsman who has scored the most runs in a calendar year of T20 cricket.

Nicholas Pooran, playing for Trinbago Knight Riders, played an innings of 27 runs in 15 balls against Barbados Royals. During this, Puran hit 4 fours and 1 six. During this innings, Nicholas Puran broke the world record of Mohammad Rizwan by scoring just 5 runs. Let us tell you, Nicholas Pooran is only the second batsman in the world who has crossed the mark of 2000 runs in a calendar year of T20 cricket. Before this, only Rizwan could reach this figure.

Recently also made this record in my name

Nicholas Pooran had recently made the record of hitting most sixes in a calendar year of T20 cricket. He has crossed the mark of 150 sixes this year. Nicholas Pooran is also the first batsman in the history of T20 cricket to hit 150 sixes in a year. Earlier, the record of hitting most sixes in a calendar year of T20 cricket was in the name of Chris Gayle. Chris Gayle hit 135 T20 sixes in the year 2015.