During the Asia Cup 2025 clash against Bangladesh, Sri Lanka's Pathum Nissanka played a knock of 50 runs off just 34 deliveries. His knock was laced with six boundaries and a maximum (Pic: X/@ICC)

With this, he became the third Sri Lankan player to complete 2000 runs in T20Is (Pic: X/@ICC)

So far, in 69 T20I matches for Sri Lanka, Nissanka has accumulated 2000 runs, including 16 half-centuries. His top score in the format is 90 runs (Pic: X/@ICC)

Above him are: Kusal Perera (83 matches, 82 innings, 2,139 runs at an average of 27.42, with a strike rate of 133.18, including a century and 15 fifties) and Kusal Mendis (2,079 runs in 85 matches and innings at an average of 25.35, with 16 fifties at a strike rate of 131.66) (Pic: X/@@OfficialSLC)

The 27-year-old also joined the likes of Team India's stalwart Virat Kohli (four fifty-plus scores in nine innings) and Pakistan's Mohammad Rizwan (three fifty-plus scores in six innings) to become the player with the joint-second-highest fifty-plus scores in the T20 Asia Cup. The Sri Lankan registered his third fifty-plus score in seven innings (Pic: X/@OfficialSLC)

He also became the fastest Lankan to reach the feat of 2000 T20I runs. He played 69 matches and 68 innings to achieve the feat (Pic: X/@OfficialSLC)