Ranking top 5 cricketers based on most T20 title wins

T20 Cricket in today’s age is a prestigious form of a game and has taken the sport to a whole new level. The format is even highly commemorated and cherished amongst the associate nations and has helped the sport to eventually reach out to a wider new audience worldwide.

Even for the players whether domestic or international, T20 cricket has been a booming platform from where a player can rightly earn a living. In fact, the concept of Global T20 Leagues has now made the format an eternal affair that brims players with a realm of opportunities and financial nourishments. Hence, with our beloved T20 stars often jubilantly indulging themselves in the carnival format, here’s a look at-

Best cricketers based on maximum T20 title wins

5. Lasith Malinga (9 Titles from 294 games)

There’s no doubt that Lasith Malinga in his prime was the greatest T20 bowler who had oodles of variations even before the T20 format had gained prominence. His slinging unorthodox action was a nightmare for the batters especially when the pacer blazed toe-crushing yorker deliveries. The Sri Lankan legend’s best T20 days were well captured in the blue and gold jersey especially when Malinga won a record 4 IPL titles in his 10-year association with Mumbai Indians. His decade of glory in the MI camp also eventually forged him to become IPL’s all-time leading wicket-taker.

While apart from his fantabulous IPL days, the pacer has also won a Champions League T20 title with MI back in the 2011-12 season. However, the accidental leadership in the 2014 World T20 gave Malinga his career-best moment when the Sri Lankan team finally lifted its first-ever ICC T20 World Cup in 2014.

Besides the above eminent glories, Malinga had recently won a Bangladesh Premier League title with Rangpur Riders in 2017 and a Super 4’sT20 tournament for Southern Express in 2014. Further, years ago the legendary pacer had also won a Twenty20 Cup title in England while playing for Kent.

4. Dan Christian (9 Titles from 350 games)

With his international limited-overs career often being topsy-turvy for Australia, the all-rounder has been an illustrious name in the realm of global T20 Leagues. By being active for more than a decade now, Christian has played for around 17 T20 franchises and has featured in the record 11 T20 finals. His all-around seam bowling proposition makes him an effective package who can not only tonk the ball hard in the middle-order but is also a sharp fielder along with a wicket-taking option.

Out of his prestigious nine titles, Christian had first won England’s Twenty20 Cricket Championship in 2010 while playing for Hampshire. Months later in 2011, while playing for South Australia, the all-rounder then bagged the 2010-11 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash title. Further, in the second season of the BBL in 2012, Christian won the competition with Brisbane Heat and later has also lifted glories with Melbourne Renegades and Sydney Sixers.

The 38-year old also has a CPL title under his name while playing for Trinbago Knight Riders in 2017 along with a Mzansi Super League title in 2018. Moreover, while also representing Nottinghamshire, the Aussie veteran has won two more T20 Blast titles.

3. Shoaib Malik (12 Titles from 425 games)

By being active in the game since 1999, Shoaib Malik has possibly done everything that a cricketer can think of. He has bowled some handy off-spin, has opened the innings in both Tests and ODIs, has batted down the order, has been a former international captain along with actively playing some brimming T20 Leagues. Now in this utterly adventurous cricketing career, the Pakistani veteran first bagged an eminent T20 title when Pakistan won its first ICC World T20 in 2009.

Besides the pinnacle ICC glory, the 39-year old has won a record eight T20 titles in Pakistan’s National T20 Cup tournament mainly by representing Sialkot Stallions. In 2014, Shoaib had also got his hands under the CPL trophy when he had represented Barbados Tridents. Also, while being part of the Comilla Victorians squad in both 2015-16 & 2018-19 seasons, the all-rounder had bagged two Bangladesh Premier League titles.

Besides all this, Shoaib Malik has also won a title with the Uva Next team back in 2012 in the Sri Lanka Premier League. Overall, by getting featured in more than 400 plus T20 games, Malik has also in total towered a booming 10,741 runs in his elongated career.

2. Dwayne Bravo (14 Titles from 482 games)

This legendary all-rounder from West Indies has been the biggest envoy of the shortest format ever since its inception. Elusively, he is at present one of the few players in international cricket who has won the two ICC World T20 titles (2012 & 2016). His renowned relationship with the CSK franchise has also made him taste 2 IPL glories along with a Champions League T20 title in 2014.

Further back in his native land, the all-rounder has been an important player for the Trinidad and Tobago team and has won the Caribbean T20 competition thrice with them. Also when it comes to the CPL, the veteran has now won four titles with the Trinbago Knight Riders franchise.

Even when it comes to the leagues like PSL, Bravo has tasted glory especially when the Quetta Gladiators had won the 2019 season. Besides all this, DJ Bravo also was part of the Sydney Sixers team who had won the 2011-12 BBL season along with a BPL and a Stanford T20 title wins.

1. Kieron Pollard (15 Titles from 545 games)

Similar to Dwayne Bravo, even Kieron Pollard has been a herculean name since the format has excelled from the late 2000s. His more than a decade-long fibrous relationship with the MI franchise has yielded him a record 5 IPL titles along with two Champions League T20 titles. The 34-year old West Indian has also won the ICC 2012 World T20 but was absent from the WI’s 2016 World T20 triumph.

Further, while playing regular cricket for Trinidad and Tobago since 2006, Pollard has won two Caribbean T20 competition titles along with a Stanford T20 Cup in 2008. Recently, the all-rounder had also bagged the last edition’s CPL title with Trinbago Knight Riders along with another trophy with Barbados Trident in 2014.

Even in the Bangladesh Premier League, Pollard had a triumphing stint with the Dhaka Gladiators in 2012 and has also won a Ram Slam T20 title with the team Cape Cobras in the 2014-15 season. Overall, currently, Kieron Pollard is someone with the most number of T20 titles under his name, and with the tournaments like the CPL, the second half of IPL, and the 2021 World T20 coming around, the cricketer further has an excellent chance to brim himself with some utterly prestigious T20 glories.