Babar Azam joins Virat Kohli on the T20I throne, equals legendary record

Pakistan Nationwide Cricket Staff famous person batsman Babar Azam has equalled a legendary T20I report of the India Nationwide Cricket Staff batting nice Virat Kohli.

Babar Azam achieved the sensational milestone within the fourth match of the Tri-Nation sequence towards the Zimbabwe Nationwide Cricket Staff 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 adjustments 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 into the main run-getter within the historical past of T20I cricket.

Nonetheless, he began the Tri-Nation sequence towards Zimbabwe with a duck and adopted it up with a rating of 16 towards the Sri Lanka Nationwide Cricket Staff.

Then, lastly, within the second match towards The Chevrons, Babar confirmed some kind and hit a very good 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.

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We’re taking part in good cricket – Salman Agha

Earlier, after profitable the toss, the Pakistan skipper, Salman Agha, said that they’ve been taking part in good cricket and need to proceed doing that. He mentioned:

„We’re going to bat first. I feel it’s nonetheless a very good wicket to bat on so we need to change the pattern and problem ourselves by batting first as we have now been chasing rather a lot. We’re taking part in good cricket. It was an entire sport (towards SL). We need to do it day in day trip. I simply need to do nicely, does not matter if it is my birthday or not.“

In the meantime, the Zimbabwe skipper Sikandar Raza said that they purpose to derail each crew within the ongoing sequence. He mentioned:

„We got here into this sequence to derail each crew. We had a very good sport towards Pakistan and the outcome went our method within the subsequent sport. I wished to bowl first as a result of we have now been batting first and my toss report is fairly poor (smiles). One change as a result of we wished to offer 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