Hampshire skipper James Vince becomes only sixth Englishman to pass T20 runs milestone

The Hampshire skipper reached the milestone on Sunday playing for the Sydney Sixers against the Adelaide Strikers in the Australian Big Bash League.

In his 224th T20 innings, Vince ended unbeaten on 45 - his highest score of the tournament - to take his career total to 6,014 runs at an average of 29.92.

Vince shared an unbroken fourth wicket stand of 71 in 7.4 overs with Jordan Silk (38 not out) as the Sixers returned to the top of the group table with a seven-wicket victory at The Cararra Oval.

The only five English-qualified players with more T20 runs are Luke Wright (7,999), Alex Hales (7,581), Ravi Bopara (7,276), Eoin Morgan (6,879) and Jos Buttler (6,327).

Vince is the 40th player in history to pass the 6,000-run T20 milestone.

The all-time chart is headed by the remarkable Chris Gayle, whose career total of 13,584 includes 22 centuries. No other player has ever reached double figures in terms of T20 tons.

Ex-Hampshire all-rounder Shane Watson is 10th in the all-time list with 8,822 runs, while Colin Munro (6,600) and Glenn Maxwell (6,381) are other former Ageas Bowl overseas signings with more than 6,000 runs to their name.

Of Vince’s 6,014 runs, 3,930 of them have been scored for Hampshire at an average of 31.95.

That is easily the highest haul in his county’s history - next highest is Michael Carberry with 3,066.

Vince’s only T20 century, and 29 of his 37 half-centuries, have been scored for Hampshire.

The 29-year-old’s next highest run tally is with the Sixers, for whom he has now scored 773 runs in 30 innings at 29.73.

Vince is the fourth highest runscorer in English T20 Blast history with 3,826 runs at 32.98.

Above him are Wright (4,498), Joe Denly (4,079) and Rikki Wessels (4,035).

Only Wright (33.07) has a better average than Vince among the top 23 runscorers in English T20 competition history.

Michael Klinger, with 42.13, has the highest average among the top 50 highest runscorers.

And another Australian, Aaron Finch (42.18), has the highest average of anyone in the top 100.