Pakistan skipper Babar Azam added one other feather to his illustrious cap as he turned the quickest batsman to breach the 2000-run milestone in T20Is. The star batsman achieved the feat throughout the thrid and last T20I towards Zimbabwe.
Babar took 52 matches to be part of the 2000-run membership and within the course of the Pakistan skipper tumbled his Indian counterpart Virat Kohli, who held the earlier record. The 32-year-old took 56 innings to obtain the identical.
Babar Azam turns into the quickest batsman to 2000 T20I runs
He has taken solely 52 innings to obtain the feat!#ZIMvPAK pic.twitter.com/cJT2HkYScg
— ICC (@ICC) April 25, 2021
Azam required solely 60 runs behind to unlock the feat earlier than the beginning of the continuing sequence and plenty of anticipated that the right-handed batsman to full it within the opener. However, he had a dreadful begin to the event scoring 2 within the first encounter, and a stable 41 within the following conflict, which got here in a dropping trigger.
Azam just lately additionally dethroned Kohli from the numero uno place within the ICC ODI rankings after a splendid outing in South Africa, the place he amassed 228 runs from three matches.
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Under Babar, Pakistan have to this point gained 4 T20I sequence – Bangladesh (2-0), Zimbabwe (3-0), South Africa (2-1) at dwelling and (3-1) away – and has drawn one towards England (1-1).
The present three-match sequence between Pakistan and Zimbabwe is locked at 1-1.
Meanwhile, Kohli after main his workforce to sequence win towards England is at the moment engaged with Royal Challengers Bangalore within the Indian Premier League. He too is having an awesome marketing campaign within the profitable T20 league, main RCB to 4 wins in the identical variety of matches.
