Is Andries Gous the USA’s best batter in T20I cricket?

Jonhenry Wilson 02 Jan 2025

Andries Gous is one of the USA's top run-scorers across ODI and T20I cricket

The United States of America are relatively new to T20I cricket.

Who are their top run-scorers in their brief T20I history?

Find out the USA’s leading run-scorers in T20Is.

7. Jaskaran Malhotra

Jaskaran Malhotra is the United States of America’s seventh-highest run-scorer in T20I cricket. He has already struck 10 sixes – and one half-ton – in the shortest format of the international game.

Malhotra has a lot of talent, indeed.

6. Nitish Kumar

Nitish Kumar is the United States of America’s sixth-highest run-scorer in T20I cricket. A dozen sixes and a hal-ton down the line, Kumar is showing plenty of promise for the USA in T20I competition.

Kumar will do well to hone some of his disciplines out in the middle going forward.

5. Saiteja Mukkamalla

Saiteja Mukkamalla is the United States of America’s fifth-highest run-scorer in T20I cricket. The least experienced on this list but arguably the best prospect, Mukkamalla is averaging a half-century every three T20I innings.

Mukkamalla could be the face of USA cricket in the future.

Also read: These are the top run-scorers for USA in ODI cricket

4. Monank Patel

Monank Patel is the United States of America’s fourth-highest run-scorer in T20I cricket. Patel’s T20I career has been going for five years now. While he is playing relatively frequently, he’d no doubt want to get his 19-odd average up.

This is a hard-hitting batter if ever a smaller cricket nation has seen one.

3. Aaron Jones

Aaron Jones is the United States of America’s third-highest run-scorer in T20I cricket. Jones is the USA’s most experienced player in T20I cricket and should remain a key batting asset for a while to come.

He has showcased deft shot selection and outstanding stroke play, for the most part, throughout. He could do it against big nations such as England in the future.

2. Andries Gous

Andries Gous is the United States of America’s second-highest run-scorer in T20I cricket. The former franchise and first-class cricketer in South Africa is doing well for his adopted nation.

Gous has been a star of domestic cricket in the USA since the launch of Minor League Cricket and Major League Cricket in this developing cricket country.

1. Steven Taylor

Steven Taylor is the United States of America’s highest run-scorer in T20I cricket. Taylor is the only USA player to have hit a century in T20I cricket. He did it against Jersey in Zimbabwe in 2022.

More recently, Taylor has been playing for the Rangpur Riders in the Bangladesh Premier League.