Jose Butler achieved a significant milestone by completing 13,000 runs in T20 cricket during Lancashire’s vitality blast match against Yorkshire in Leeds on Thursday. England’s wicketkeeper-Better became the seventh player to reach the landmark, scoring 77 off 46 balls with eight fours and three sixes at a strike rate of 167.39.Butler’s T20 career figures have now scored 13,046 runs in 431 innings in 457 matches, which is an average of 35.74 with eight centuries and 93 fifties. His highest score is 124.The aristocratic list of players who crossed the 13,000 -run mark include Chris Gayle (14,562 runs), Kieron Pollard (13,854 runs), Alex Hales (13,814 runs), Shoaib Malik (13,571 runs), Virat Kohli (13,543 runs), and David Warner and David Warner.At T20 International, Butler led England’s run-scoring chart to an average of 35.92 with 3,700 runs in 137 matches and a strike rate of 147.05 in a century and 27 fifty. He captained England to win the 2022 T20 World Cup.
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His Indian Premier League career has been equally impressive, an average of 40.00 in 121 matches and a strike rate over 149.In the Vitality Blast Tournament, Butler has scored an average of 32.54 runs in 113 matches and more than 149 strike rates, including 21 fifty with the highest score of the 213s.His T20 career is spread over various leagues including IPL, SA20, The Hande and Big Bash League, which establishes him as one of the most skillful batsmen of the format.
