India played a lot of cricket in 2022. While the Men in Blue had a really good win percentage in bilateral series, India could not replicate the same kind of performances in multination tournaments like the Asia Cup and the T220 World Cup. Notably, India were knocked out from the group stage of Asia Cup 2022 and suffered a ten-wicket loss to England in the T20 WC 2022 Semifinal. But, despite these major failures, India maintained a good win ratio overall.
India played a total of 71 matches across formats- 7 Tests, 24 ODIs and 40 T20Is, winning 46 of them. While India won four out of seven Tests, they won 14 ODIs. In T20Is, India managed a win percentage of 70 (winning 28 out of 40 matches).
With the increased volume of cricket, quite a few names got a chance to play for India. However, a few names still managed to feature regularly in the playing XI across formats. This also gave such players a chance to make the most of the opportunity and shine in their respective departments.
The likes of Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant did exceedingly well in one of the three formats with the bat, while Mohammed Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah were the stars with the ball.
So, here is a format-wise breakage of who scored the most number of runs and who took the most number of wickets.
Tests
Rishabh Pant was India’s leading scorer in Tests having amassed 680 runs. Shreyas Iyer stood a distant second with 422 runs whereas Cheteshwar Pujara ended third with 409 runs. Meanwhile, Jasprit Bumrah took the most number of wickets (22).
ODIs
Shreyas Iyer ended as India’s top scorer for the year with 724 from 17 matches. Shikhar Dhawan was second with 688 runs whereas Shubman Gill finished third with 638 runs. In bowling, pacer Mohammed Siraj ended as the highest wicket-taker for India with 24 wickets from 15 ODIs. Shardul Thakur trailed Siraj by two wickets, ending with 22 wickets from 16 games. Yuzvendra Chahal was third with 21 wickets from 14 ODIs.
T20Is
Suryakumar Yadav ended as the top scorer in T20Is in 2022 with 1,164 runs. Virat Kohli was the second on the list with 781 runs. Rohit Sharma finished third with 656 runs. Meanwhile, Bhuvneshwar Kumar ended 2022 with 37 wickets from 32 games — the highest for India and second amongst full-member nations. Arshdeep Singh was second best for India with 33 wickets from 21 T20Is.
Overall
Shreyas Iyer has scored the most number of runs for India in 2022. Iyer has scored a total of 1609 runs for India in 39 matches and 40 innings. Iyer has faced 1732 balls and has scored at a strike rate of 92.89. The Mumbai-based batsman at an average of 48.75 has scored 14 half-centuries and a century. Suryakumar Yadav is next on the list with 1424 runs which he scored at an average of 40.68.
Highest run scorers for India across all formats:
Shreyas Iyer: 1609 runs
Suryakumar Yadav: 1424 runs
Rishabh Pant: 1380 runs
Virat Kohli: 1348 runs
Rohit Sharma: 995 runs
