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Austrian batter Karanbir Singh has gone past Mohammad Rizwan and India’s T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav to break the record for most runs in a calendar year in men’s T20Is. Till Thursday, the record was held by Rizwan, but with a brilliant knock against Romania, Karanbir snatched the bragging rights.

When Austria started their tour of Romania, Karanbir needed 87 runs to go past Rizwan’s world record of 1,326 runs, set four years earlier. In the doubleheader on Saturday, October 18, he scored 57 off 27 deliveries in the first game and followed it up with 90 off 46 in the second, breaking the record.

The next day, Karanbir added 74 runs off 44 deliveries and 27 off 12 to extend his new record to 1,488 runs.

Karanbir also smacked 19 fours during the series, br

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