After guiding Pakistan to a remarkable series victory against Afghanistan, Babar Azam is showing his dominant performance as Pakistan commenced their Asia Cup 2023 journey on Wednesday. The men in green are taking on Nepal at Multan Cricket stadium
In this match, Pakistani captain Babar Slammed a hundred and scored 151 runs in 131 balls. This is the 19th ODI hundred for Azam in his ODI cricket career and with this he has achieved another World record to his name. He has become the batsman with the fewest innings to reach 19 centuries. With this, he has surpassed players like Virat Kohli, Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers, and David Warner.
The skipper got his 19th ODI century in 109 balls. This century came in his 102nd match, making him the quickest to achieve 19 ODI centuries in terms of matches played. Previously, Hashim Amla achieved this feat in 104 matches. The dashing Indian batter Virat Kohli is at third place where he scored his 19th ODI century in 124 matches. David Warner has taken 139 matches, while de Villiers achieved it in 171 matches.
In this match, the Pakistan team won the toss and elected to bat first. The team scored 342 runs at the loss of six wickets in 50 overs. For the team, Babar Azam got 151 runs, Iftikhar Ahmed also smashed a brilliant century and played a knock of 109 runs in just 71 balls.
For Nepal, Sompal Kami got two wickets. Karan KC and Sandeep Lamichhane managed to get one-one wickets each.