Pakistan Nationwide Cricket Workforce famous person batsman Babar Azam has equalled a legendary T20I file of the India Nationwide Cricket Workforce batting nice Virat Kohli.
Babar Azam achieved the sensational milestone within the fourth match of the Tri-Nation collection in opposition to the Zimbabwe Nationwide Cricket Workforce on the Rawalpindi Stadium on Sunday, November 23.
Babar Azam hits a fifty vs Zimbabwe
After the disastrous Asia Cup 2025, Pakistan head coach Mike Hesson determined to make some modifications to the T20I setup and recalled the gifted batter Babar Azam to the squad.
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Babar restarted his T20I profession decently and shortly surpassed Rohit Sharma to turn out to be the main run-getter within the historical past of T20I cricket.
Nonetheless, he began the Tri-Nation collection in opposition to Zimbabwe with a duck and adopted it up with a rating of 16 in opposition to the Sri Lanka Nationwide Cricket Workforce.
Then, lastly, within the second match in opposition to The Chevrons, Babar confirmed some type and hit a superb fifty. He completed his innings with a rating of 74 off 52 balls, and his innings was studded with 7 fours and a couple of sixes.
This efficiency helped Babar Azam attain 38 half-centuries in T20I cricket, which is the joint-most within the format alongside Virat Kohli.
Most T20I fifties:
| Babar Azam (PAK) | 134 | 4374 | 39.76 | 128.38 | 3 | 38 | 41 |
| V Kohli (IND) | 125 | 4188 | 48.69 | 137.04 | 1 | 38 | 39 |
| RG Sharma (IND) | 159 | 4231 | 32.05 | 140.89 | 5 | 32 | 37 |
| Mohammad Rizwan (PAK) | 106 | 3414 | 47.41 | 125.37 | 1 | 30 | 31 |
| DA Warner (AUS) | 110 | 3277 | 33.43 | 142.47 | 1 | 28 | 29 |
| JC Buttler (ENG) | 144 | 3869 | 35.49 | 148.97 | 1 | 28 | 29 |
We’re enjoying good cricket – Salman Agha
Earlier, after successful the toss, the Pakistan skipper, Salman Agha, said that they’ve been enjoying good cricket and wish to proceed doing that. He mentioned:
“We’re going to bat first. I feel it’s nonetheless a superb wicket to bat on so we wish to change the development and problem ourselves by batting first as now we have been chasing so much. We’re enjoying good cricket. It was a whole recreation (in opposition to SL). We wish to do it day in day trip. I simply wish to do properly, would not matter if it is my birthday or not.”
In the meantime, the Zimbabwe skipper Sikandar Raza said that they purpose to derail each staff within the ongoing collection. He mentioned:
“We got here into this collection to derail each staff. We had a superb recreation in opposition to Pakistan and the end result went our approach within the subsequent recreation. I wished to bowl first as a result of now we have been batting first and my toss file is fairly poor (smiles). One change as a result of we wished to present everybody a go. Wellington Masakadza is in for Graeme Cremer.”
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Zimbabwe (Taking part in XI): Brian Bennett, Tadiwanashe Marumani, Brendan Taylor(w), Sikandar Raza(c), Ryan Burl, Tony Munyonga, Tashinga Musekiwa, Brad Evans, Tinotenda Maposa, Richard Ngarava, Wellington Masakadza
Pakistan (Taking part in XI): Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub, Babar Azam, Salman Agha(c), Usman Khan(w), Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Mohammad Wasim Jr, Naseem Shah, Usman Tariq
