Pakistan’s Babar Azam in motion throughout their Champions Trophy 2025 sport towards India on the Dubai Worldwide Stadium, February 23, 2025. — Reuters
Pakistan’s star batter Babar Azam on Friday overtook India’s Rohit Sharma to develop into the very best run-scorer in males’s T20 Internationals.
Babar achieved the milestone throughout Pakistan’s second T20I of the three-match collection towards South Africa, underway right here on the Gaddafi Stadium.
The star batter, who entered the fixture with 4,223 runs, required simply 9 runs to surpass Sharma’s tally of 4,231.
Babar acquired off to a flamboyant begin to his knock as he smashed Corbin Bosch for a boundary by his trademark cowl drive, however scored 4 extra off the following 10 deliveries as his batting companion, Saim Ayub, was dominating the South African bowlers.
He finally scored the decisive run on the primary supply of the twelfth over of Pakistan’s innings by working one off South Africa captain Donovan Ferreira for a single in direction of the long-off.
Most runs in males’s T20Is
Babar Azam -4232 in 130 matches*
Rohit Sharma – 4231 in 159 matches
Virat Kohli – 4188 in 125 matches
Jos Buttler – 3869 in 144 matches
Notably, the continued residence collection towards the Proteas marked Babar’s return to the nationwide crew in T20Is, as the previous captain had gone out of favour within the shortest format after the three-match away collection towards the identical opposition in December final 12 months.
He finally did not make it to the Pakistan squad for the lately concluded ACC Males’s T20 Asia Cup 2025 as the previous champions shifted their focus to grooming kids forward of subsequent 12 months’s ICC Males’s T20 World Cup.
Nevertheless, following the heartbreak within the eight-team continental match, the right-handed batter was known as up for the house project towards South Africa, who completed runners-up on the T20 World Cup 2024.
Babar, nonetheless, had a forgetful return to the shortest format as he fell for a duck within the collection opener in Rawalpindi on Tuesday.
