Pakistan batsman Babar Azam performs a shot throughout the third Twenty20 worldwide cricket match between Australia and Pakistan on the Bellerive Oval in Hobart on November 18, 2024. — AFP
HOBART: Pakistan’s batter Babar Azam clinched the second spot within the record of all-time main run-scorer within the males’s T20 Internationals, surpassing India’s Virat Kohli on Monday.
The previous skipper achieved this feat throughout the third and remaining T20I of the three-match collection towards Australia at Bellerive Oval by scoring 41 runs.
Earlier, Australia pummelled Pakistan to safe a 3-0 T20I collection victory after beating the guests in remaining match.
Babar now has 4,192 runs within the format, 4 greater than Kohli’s 4,188, whereas former Indian captain Rohit Sharma continues to be on the high with 4,231 runs.
Moreover, the Pakistan star now wants 40 extra runs to grow to be the all-time main run-getter by changing Sharma, who alongside Kohli, referred to as time on his T20I profession after India’s ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2024 title victory.
Moreover Babar, present white-ball captain Mohammad Rizwan is the one different Pakistani batter among the many Prime 10 batters with most runs within the format.
Notably, the star batter, who relinquished Pakistan’s white-ball captaincy forward of the white-ball tour of Australia, had a forgetful outing with the bat because the right-handed batter solely managed 80 runs within the three-match ODI collection.
Babar’s lack of ability to attain large continued within the recently-concluded T20I collection as he registered the scores of three in every of the primary two T20Is earlier than his record-breaking 41-run knock within the remaining fixture.
Most runs in males’s T20Is
Rohit Sharma: 4,231
Babar Azam: 4,192
Virat Kohli: 4,188
Paul Stirling: 3,655