Superstar cricketer and captain of the Pakistan National Team, Babar Azam, has equalled the record of the legendary batsman of the Indian National Team, Virat Kohli, in T20I matches.
Babar Azam clapped his hands and took the grand monument in the fourth game of the Tri-Nation series against the Zimbabwe National Team at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on the 23rd of November, Sunday.
The Pakistani batsman, Babar Azam, made a half-century against Zimbabwe
After the unfortunate Asia Cup 2025, which was indeed a great disappointment, the head coach of the Pakistan team, Mike Hesson, decided to make some adjustments to the T20I team and brought the promising batsman Babar Azam back into the squad.
Babar kicked off his T20I career again with a decent start and very soon overtook Rohit Sharma to become the all-time highest run-getter in T20I cricket.
But he opened the Tri-Nation series versus Zimbabwe with a duck and then registered a 16 against theSri Lanka National Cricket Team.
Finally, he showed some form in the second match against The Chevrons, where he made a half-century. Babar completed his inning with a score of 74 runs off 52 balls, and his innings included 7 fours and 2 sixes.
This outstanding performance by Babar Azam earned him 38 half-centuries in T20I cricket, which is equal to that of Virat Kohli, the joint-most in the format.
We are good at playing cricket – Salman Agha
Earlier, after winning the toss, the Pakistan captain, Salman Agha, said that they have been playing good cricket and want to keep it that way. He remarked
“We will be the team to bat first. My opinion is that the wicket is still great for batting so we are taking the risk and challenging ourselves by batting first which is opposite to our recent trend of chasing. Our play is not bad. It was a total game (vs SL). We want to be like that every day. I just want to perform well, whether it’s my birthday or not is of no consequence.”
On the other hand, Zimbabwe Captain Sikandar Raza was optimistic about the series and said they were looking to stop every team. He said:
“Our intention was to be the reason of every team’s downfall in this series. The match with Pakistan was great for us and the next one went our way because of the good performance at the previous one. I wanted us to bat second because we had always done the opposite and my toss record is not good (smiles). Just one change as we wanted everybody to be a part of the match. Wellington Masakadza is in for Graeme Cremer.”
Zimbabwe (Playing 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 (Playing 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
