Nicholas Pooran has most runs for WI against India till September 2026 [Source: AFP]West Indies and India have shared a competitive T20I rivalry since their first meeting in 2009, having shared several memorable contests over the years. While India have often held the upper hand, a number of West Indies batters have enjoyed impressive individual success against the ‘Men in Blue’, amassing significant runs in the format.Here is a look at five of the West Indies cricketers with the highest number of runs to their names in T20I matches against Team India.5. Kieron Pollard – 324 runsLegendary all-rounder Kieron Pollard is one of the leading run-makers in the world of T20 cricket with nearly 15,000 runs. The former West Indies captain has aggregated 324 of those runs against Team India in just 13 innings at a strike rate of 124.61.Also Read- Shai Hope Credits MS Dhoni After Scripting West Indies' Highest Successful Chase vs IndiaPollard has also listed two of his six T20I half-centuries against the Indian cricket team, and he averages a prolific 32.40 in the process. To date, Pollard remains one of West Indies’ most proficient T20I batters against Team India.4. Brandon King – 336 runsWest Indies top-order batter Brandon King has scored 336 runs in just 12 innings spanning 13 T20I matches against Team India. The cricketer played all those 13 matches in the space of just four years between 2019 and 2023. King holds an average of 30.54 and a strike rate of 122.18 in all appearances involving the ‘Men in Blue’. Back in August 2023, he clobbered 85* runs off just 55 balls with five cracking boundaries and six scorching sixes at Lauderhill to drive West Indies to a comprehensive eight-wicket win over India in a five-match series decider.3. Rovman Powell – 408 runsWest Indies middle-order batter Rovman Powell has scored 408 runs in just 17 innings from 19 T20I matches against India. His average of 31.38 against India even exceeds his career T20I average of 26.37 by a fair margin.Powell also holds an astonishing batting strike rate of 143.15 in the process, and has charted two half-centuries against Team India in his career so far. One of those fifties occurred during West Indies’ 2022 tour of the country, when the hard-hitting radical bludgeoned 68* runs off just 36 balls in a high-scoring Eden Gardens thriller.2. Shimron Hetmyer – 422 runsShimron Hetmyer holds an astonishing batting strike rate of 134.82 after playing 20 T20I matches against the Indian cricket team. In 19 innings, the attacking middle-order batter has scored 422 runs at an average of 23.44, slapping three half-centuries in the process.His magnum opus T20I performance against India remains the 61 he rained down in Lauderhill back in August 2023 from just 39 balls with three boundaries and four huge sixes. Hetmyer, who was snubbed from the West Indies ODI squad vs India, also smashed an electrifying 56 off just 41 balls back in December 2019 during a high-scoring T20I in Hyderabad.1. Nicholas Pooran – 592 runsFormer wicketkeeper-batter Nicholas Pooran remains West Indies’ most successful T20I batter against India by a landslide. In 20 innings between the years 2018 and 2023, the explosive middle-order batter mounted 592 runs at a prolific average of 32.88 and with a scorching strike rate of 135.15.Pooran, who has listed 13 half-centuries in his T20I career, bludgeoned five of those against Team India alone. The former cricketer clattered three of those 50-plus scores in succession, doing so during a three-match series in India back in February 2022 when he aggregated 184 runs at an average of 61.33.Also Read- SA Champions vs WI Champions Live Streaming, Live Telecast- Where to Watch WCL 2026 Match 3?
