36 – 36.57, batting average of Charlotte Edwards, competition's leading run scorer

Edwards has scored 768 runs from 24 World T20 matches that she played between 2009 to 2016 at a strike-rate of 103.92.

She has scored five half-centuries and hit 99 fours and four sixes. New Zealand's Suzie Bates is the second on the list with 720 runs from 24 matches while Edwards's former England teammate Sarah Taylor is third with 711 runs from 21 games.

Overall, Edwards played 95 T20Is and scored 2605 runs at 32.97 with 12 half-centuries. England won the inaugural World T20 in 2009 under her leadership and made at least the semi finals in the next three editions.