Stats: Batsmen with most international runs at the age of 19

Sachin Tendulkar (R) after scoring a century as a teenager

Cricket is generally known as a batsman’s game these days as compared to earlier when both batting and bowling tended to be more balanced. Yet, there were batsmen who shone earlier even as teenagers and broke records at a very young age. If we talk about cricketing stats and particularly batting records, it is a crime to not speak about Sachin Tendulkar because he created and broke so many records during his international career for India.

There is no surprise here as well because he holds the record of scoring the most international runs as a teenager. An interesting fact is that there are many batsmen from Pakistan and Bangaldesh on this list and just two Indian batsmen apart from Sachin Tendulkar. This list contains batsmen who have made more than 500 runs when their age was 19 or lesser.

Here are the batsmen with most international runs at the age of 19:

Player	Nation	M	R	HS	Ave	100s
Sachin Tendulkar	India	81	3042	165	37.55	5
Shahid Afridi	Pakistan	106	2548	141	24.26	3
Tamim Iqbal	Bangaldesh	72	1897	129	23.71	1
Umar Akmal	Pakistan	33	1390	129	42.12	2
Alok Kapali	Bangladesh	46	1231	89*	21.98	0
Mohammad Ashraful	Bangaldesh	49	1226	114	19.15	1
Brendan Taylor	Zimbabwe	39	1106	78	22.57	0
Imran Nazir	Pakistan	40	1032	131	24.57	2
Mushtaq Mohammad	Pakistan	14	868	101	37.73	2
Parthiv Patel	India	33	801	69	26.70	0
Ijaz Ahmed	Pakistan	40	769	72	20.23	0
Javed Miandad	Pakistan	11	769	206	54.92	2
Nafees Iqbal	Bangladesh	25	759	121	22.32	1
Aftab Ahmed	Bangladesh	30	755	82*	21.57	0
Shakib Al Hasan	Bangaldesh	23	746	134*	49.73	1
PA de Silva	Sri Lanka	24	693	122	30.13	1
PR Stirling	Ireland	24	682	87	29.65	0
Elton Chigumbura	Zimbabwe	30	638	77	19.93	0
Usman Ghani	Afghanistan	23	624	118	27.13	1
Suresh Raina	India	34	589	81*	26.77	0
Ahmed Shehzad	Pakistan	25	580	115	24.16	2
Zahid Fasal	Pakistan	23	556	98*	23.16	0
Tatenda Taibu	Zimbabwe	38	536	74*	21.44	0
Daniel Vettori	New Zealand	47	536	90	16.75	0
AN Kervezee	Netherlands	26	527	75	25.09	0
Rajin Saleh	Bangladesh	13	515	71	28.61	0

Here is another table that shows the team-wise distribution of batsmen with more than 500 international runs at the age of 19 till date.

Surprisingly, there is not a single batsman from Australia, South Africa and England in this list while there are eight batsmen from Pakistan, seven batsmen from Bangladesh. three batsmen each from Zimbabwe and India and one batsman each from New Zealand, Ireland, Netherlands, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan present.

Count	Team name
8	Paksitan
7	Bangladesh
3	India
	Zimbabwe
1	Ireland
	Netherlands
	New Zealand
	Sri Lanka
	Afghanistan

 

NOTE: Stats are updated as of 2 July 2016.