Cricket / Babar Azam Broke Hashim Amlas World Record The Most By Any Cricketer

Babar Azam in ODIs: Babar Azam scored an inning of 66 runs in the first ODI against New Zealand. This is the 23rd half-century of his ODI career. Please tell that in ODIs, Babar has so far scored a total of 4730 runs in 91 innings of 93 matches, which includes 17 centuries and 23 half-centuries. By reaching this point of his career, the Pakistani captain has made a special record. Babar has now become the highest run scorer in ODIs after 91 innings. By doing this, he has broken the record of Hashim Amla of South Africa. Hashim Amla had scored 4570 runs after 91 innings of his ODI career. At the same time, now Babar has scored 4730 runs after playing 91 ODI innings.

Not only this, after the year 2020, Babar has also become the highest run-scorer in international cricket. From the year 2020 till the first ODI against New Zealand, Babar has scored a total of 5310 runs in international cricket. At the same time, Virat Kohli has scored 3154 runs in his international career during this period.

If Babar is compared with Kohli and Suryakumar Yadav, since the year 2020 till now, both the batsmen have scored a total of 5116 runs in international cricket, while Babar alone has managed to score a total of 5310 runs during this time. Not only this, currently Babar's ODI average has reached 60, which is not the ODI average of any other batsman in current cricket.

Not only this, now if Babar is able to score 270 runs in the coming 9 ODI innings, then he will become the fastest batsman to score 5000 runs in ODIs. By the way, at this time the record of making the fastest 5 thousand runs in ODIs is in the name of Hashim Amla. Amla has managed to score 5000 runs in 101 innings in ODIs. Vivian Richards completed 5000 ODI runs in 114 innings. At the same time, Virat Kohli also scored 5000 runs in 114 innings in ODIs.

Talking about the first ODI match played in Karachi, Pakistan defeated New Zealand (Pakistan vs New Zealand, 1st ODI) by 6 wickets. In Pakistan's victory, Naseem Shah did wonders and got success in taking 5 wickets. On the basis of Naseem's deadly bowling, the New Zealand team could only make 255/9 while playing first, later Pakistan won in 48.1 overs after losing 4 wickets. Fakhar Zaman scored 56 and Babar Azam scored 66 runs for Pakistan, besides Mohammad Rizwan scored 77 runs to give Pakistan victory in the first ODI.