This collage of images options Peshawar Zalmi captain Babar Azam (left) and Lahore Qalandars opening batter Fakhar Zaman. — PSL
Peshawar Zalmi captain Babar Azam was dismissed for a duck within the PSL 11 ultimate towards Hyderabad Kingsmen at Gaddafi Stadium on Sunday, falling in need of Fakhar Zaman’s file for many runs in a single season.
The fitting-handed batter entered the high-stakes ultimate needing only one run to surpass Zaman’s landmark tally. Nevertheless, he failed so as to add to his rating and was dismissed with out troubling the scorers, lacking out on a historic milestone.
Beforehand, the left-handed batter from the Qalandars held the file within the 2022 version of the match, when he amassed 588 runs in 13 innings at a strike price of 152.72, together with seven half-centuries and one century.
Babar, in the meantime, has equalled the feat in 11 innings, scoring runs at an excellent common of 73.50 and a strike price of 145.90. His season has included two centuries and three half-centuries.
Most runs in a PSL season:
Babar Azam (Peshawar Zalmi) – 588 runs in 2026
Fakhar Zaman (Lahore Qalandars) – 588 runs in 2022
Babar Azam (Peshawar Zalmi) – 569 runs in 2024
Babar Azam (Karachi Kings) – 554 runs in 2021
Mohammad Rizwan (Multan Sultans) – 550 runs in 2023
Mohammad Rizwan (Multan Sultans) – 546 runs in 2022
Kusal Mendis (Peshawar Zalmi) – 541* runs in 2026
Babar Azam (Peshawar Zalmi) – 522 runs in 2023
Mohammad Rizwan (Multan Sultans) – 500 runs in 2021
Furthermore, the 31-year-old beforehand equalled two main data throughout the ongoing version of the match courtesy of a blistering century towards Islamabad United within the Qualifier.
Babar Azam top-scored within the high-stakes fixture with a swashbuckling 103 off simply 59 deliveries, embellished with 12 fours and 4 sixes, serving to the table-toppers submit a commanding complete of 221/7 of their 20 overs.
His 57-ball century within the match marked his second of the continued version, making him solely the second batter within the historical past of the marquee league to register two centuries in a single season, becoming a member of Usman Khan, who achieved the feat in PSL 9 for Multan Sultans.
