Pakistan’s star batter Babar Azam made historical past on Sunday, October 12, by changing into the primary cricketer from Asia to attain 3000 runs within the ICC World Check Championship (WTC).
Babar Azam achieved this landmark throughout the ongoing first Check in opposition to South Africa at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore. Batting at No. 4, the previous Pakistan captain hit a boundary off Senuran Muthusamy’s fourth ball of the forty ninth over to achieve the milestone in Lahore.
Babar Azam makes historical past within the Lahore Check in opposition to South Africa
Babar Azam has now joined a choose group of worldwide gamers who’ve scored 3000 WTC runs, together with Australian stars Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Travis Head, and Usman Khawaja.
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Other than them, England’s batting maestros Joe Root, Ben Stokes, and Zak Crawley have additionally scored over 3000 runs within the ICC World Check Championship (WTC).
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Gamers with essentially the most runs within the ICC World Check Championship:
6080 runs: Joe Root (60 innings; England)
4278 runs: Steve Smith (55 innings; Australia)
4225 runs: Marnus Labuschagne (53 innings; Australia)
3616 runs: Ben Stokes (57 innings; England)
3300 runs: Travis Head (52 runs; Australia)
3288 runs: Usman Khawaja (43 runs; Australia)
3041 runs: Zak Crawley (52 innings; England)
3003* runs: Babar Azam (37* innings; Pakistan)
2868 runs: Ollie Pope (51 innings; England)
2826 runs: Shubman Gill (39* innings; India)
Within the record of Asian batters with essentially the most WTC runs, Babar now leads the desk, adopted by India’s Shubman Gill with 2826 runs in 39 matches. Rishabh Pant and Rohit Sharma are subsequent with 2731 and 2716 runs, respectively.
Amongst Pakistani gamers, solely wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan has crossed 2000 WTC runs. Rizwan has 2194 runs in 37 matches to his identify, whereas Check captain Shan Masood has 1663 runs in 28 matches.
Asian gamers with essentially the most runs within the ICC World Check Championship:
3003* runs: Babar Azam (37* innings; Pakistan)
2826 runs: Shubman Gill (39* innings; India)
2731 runs: Rishabh Pant (38 innings; India)
2716 runs: Rohit Sharma (40 innings; India)
2642 runs: Dimuth Karunaratne (35 innings; Sri Lanka)
2617 runs: Virat Kohli (46 innings; India)
2509 runs: Dhananjaya de Silva (35 innings; Sri Lanka)
2505 runs: Ravindra Jadeja (46 innings; India)
2420 runs: Yashasvi Jaiswal (26 innings; India)
2340 runs: Dinesh Chandimal (32 innings; Sri Lanka)
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Shan Masood shines as Pakistan attain 280/5 in opposition to South Africa in Lahore
Throughout the innings, Babar scored 23 runs off 48 balls, hitting 4 boundaries in opposition to South Africa. However, Masood performed a shocking knock of 76 runs, and he additionally added an enormous 161-run partnership for the second wicket with Imam-ul-Haq, who missed the century by simply 7 runs.
At present, Rizwan is batting on 50, whereas Salman Ali Agha is offering the supporting hand with 37* because the hosts have crossed 280 runs with 5 wickets in hand in opposition to South Africa in Lahore.
Earlier, Shan Masood had mentioned on the toss, “We now have two seamers in case there’s reverse swing. South Africa are the defending WTC champions. Good likelihood for us to measure ourselves in opposition to one of the best.”
