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The T20 Blast 2023 is up and running with some top-quality batters already showing their class. 

They began the tournament in good form and will have hoped to have set the tone for their respective teams over the course of the rest of the tournament.

After the first few games of the tournament, several players have already scored fifties and some players even have more than one half-century to their name despite the tournament still being in its early stages.

A couple of batters, namely Australian all-rounder Sean Abbot and England batter Graham Clark have even gone on to score centuries.

Interestingly, both these players scored their respective hundreds on the same day - Friday, May 26.

Surrey’s Sean Abbot made an unbeaten 41-ball 110 against Kent to help his side post 223/5 in a South Group encounter. 

His Player of the Match knock, which included four fours and a whopping 11 sixes helped Surrey to a 41-run victory.

Graham Clark’s hundred also came in a winning cause as the Durham opener made 102 off just 49 balls.

Clark’s innings, which featured 13 fours and four sixes, gave Durham a convincing 10-wicket win over Northamptonshire as the 138-run target was chased down by the openers themselves in no time. 

Meanwhile, the top-scorer from last season’s T20 Blast James Vince scored an unbeaten 55-ball 88 to help Hampshire chase down a 172-run target against Middlesex in what was their second outing of the 2023 season.

Along with Vince, a few other familiar names like Alex Hales, Dawid Malan, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, and Wayne Madsen have also made a good start to the tournament with the willow.

Wayne Madsen, in fact, scored half-centuries for Derbyshire in each of his first three outings in Vitality T20 Bleast 2023.

Here’s a look at the leading run-scorers in T20 Bleast 2023.

Most runs in T20 Blast 2023

Player

Team

Matches

Runs

Wayne Madsen

Derbyshire

6

392

James Vince

Hampshire

6

356

Dawid Malan

Yorkshire

6

330

Sam Hain

Birmingham

6

303

Colin Ingram

Glamorgan

5

263

Joe Clarke

Nottinghamshire

7

254

Chris Cooke

Glamorgan

5

252

Colin Munro

Nottinghamshire

7

245

Daryl Mitchell

Lancashire

7

242

Ollie Robinson

Durham

6

234

Photo credit: Alamy

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