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Sri Lankan Batting legend Mahela Jayawardene is the player with the most runs in T20 World Cup with 1,016 runs to his name.
| Pos | Player | Team | Matches | Runs | Avg | SR |
| 1 | Mahela Jayawardene | Sri Lanka | 31 | 1016 | 39.07 | 134.74 |
| 2 | Chris Gayle | West Indies | 33 | 965 | 34.46 | 142.75 |
| 3 | T. Dilshan | Sri Lanka | 35 | 897 | 30.93 | 124.06 |
| 4 | Rohit Sharma | India | 33 | 847 | 38.5 | 131.52 |
| 5 | Virat Kohli | India | 21 | 845 | 76.63 | 129.6 |
| 6 | David Warner | Australia | 30 | 762 | 27.21 | 135.1 |
| 7 | AB de Villiers | South Africa | 30 | 717 | 29.87 | 143.4 |
| 8 | Shakib Al Hasan | Bangladesh | 31 | 698 | 26.84 | 124.64 |
| 9 | Kumar Sangakkara | Sri Lanka | 31 | 661 | 25.42 | 112.22 |
| 10 | Shoaib Malik | Pakistan | 34 | 646 | 34 | 123.28 |
