The Vijay Hazare Trophy (VHT) is the top-tier List A tournament played every year in India. It’s a 50-over competition that often sees blistering performances from experienced as well as younger batters.
Since it helps to get a call-up to the Indian team, batters need to make a mark with their consistent run-scoring. And one good season with the bat can land a batter with the golden opportunity to play for India in ODI cricket.
So we have seen batters seize every chance to rack up big scores match after match to swell their run tally in a single season.
In this article, we’ll look at the top 10 instances of batters scoring the most runs in a single Vijay Hazare Trophy season.
Most Runs in a Vijay Hazare Trophy Season
| Player | Innings | Runs | Average | 100/50 | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Narayan Jagadeesan (Tamil Nadu) | 8 | 830 | 138.33 | 5/0 | 2022/23 |
| Prithvi Shaw (Mumbai) | 8 | 827 | 165.40 | 4/1 | 2020/21 |
| Karun Nair (Vidarbha) | 8 | 779 | 389.50 | 5/1 | 2024/25 |
| Devdutt Padikkal (Karnataka) | 7 | 737 | 147.40 | 4/3 | 2020/21 |
| Mayank Agarwal (Karnataka) | 8 | 723 | 90.37 | 3/4 | 2017/18 |
| Ruturaj Gaikwad (Maharashtra) | 5 | 660 | 220.00 | 4/0 | 2022/23 |
| Mayank Agarwal (Karnataka) | 10 | 651 | 93.00 | 4/1 | 2024/25 |
| Ravikumar Samarth (Karnataka) | 7 | 613 | 122.60 | 3/2 | 2020/21 |
| Sai Sudharsan (Tamil Nadu) | 8 | 610 | 76.25 | 3/2 | 2022/23 |
| Devdutt Padikkal (Karnataka) | 11 | 609 | 67.66 | 2/5 | 2019/20 |
Key Insights
830: Narayan Jagadeesan holds the record for scoring the most runs in a single Vijay Hazare Trophy season. The right-hand keeper-batter accumulated 830 runs for Tamil Nadu in the 2022/23 season.
277: In the same season, Jagadeesan racked up the highest individual score in List A cricket. He scored 277 runs off 141 balls against Arunachal Pradesh in Bengaluru on November 21, 2022, suring the previous highest of 268 by Surrey’s Ali Brown.
5: Jagadeesan also smashed the most consecutive hundreds in List A cricket that season. The Tamil Nadu batter scored five centuries in a row against Andhra (114*), Chhattisgarh (107), Goa (168), Haryana (128), and Arunachal (277).
2: Jagadeesan and Karun Nair are the only two batters who have smashed five or more centuries in a single VHT season. Nair imitated Jagadeesan’s feat in the 2024/25 season while playing for Vidarbha.
600: Three batters have scored 600 or more runs in two VHT seasons. Devdutt Padikkal (2019/20 and 2020/21) and Ruturaj Gaikwad (2021/22 and 2022/23) did in consecutive seasons, while Mayank Agarwal breached the barrier in 2017/18 and 2024/25.
7: Padikkal also smashed seven 50-plus scores in both seasons, making him the only batter to do so. Agarwal (2017/18) and Baba Aparajith (2019/20) also scored seven 50-plus knocks, which is t-most in a single VHT season.
33: The number of instances of batters scoring 500 or more runs in a single Vijay Hazare Trophy season.
138.29: Prithvi Shaw’s strike rate in the 2020/21 VHT season, which is the highest strike rate by a batter with a minimum of 500 runs in a season.
389.50: Karun Nair’s batting average in the 2024/25 season, which is the highest batting average among the batters with 500-plus runs in a season.
