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Babar Azam Records List 2023 – T20IS, ODIS, AND TEST RECORDS

BySALMAN CHEEMA

BABAR AZAM RECORD LIST:

Babar Azam is an international cricketer and the captain of Pakistan’s National Team in all three formats. The right-handed batsman is regarded as one of the best players ever produces in the history of Pakistan cricket. A player who loves breaking records and has been doing that since his debut as well. Babar Azam has taken the world by storm with his talent and has never looked back since he appeared in the international arena and has established himself as one of the biggest brands in world cricket.

The Pakistani captain is just not all about his batting skills and records but also his leadership qualities which set him apart from the others and that’s the reason he is successful in every field of his career, here we will try to list down the records of the Pakistani captain which he has created in his journey as a batsman and as a captain in all formats of the game.

BABAR AZAM T20I CRICKET:

Babar Azam since his debut has always been a very good white-ball player and that’s why he also ruled in T20 international cricket as well, here are some of the important records that he has scored in T20 cricket for Pakistan, which are as follows;

BABAR AZAM QUICKEST TO SCORE T20I RUNS:

  • FASTEST BATSMAN IN HISTORY TO COMPLETE 1000 T20I RUNS IN THE WORLD (26 INNINGS)
  • FASTEST BATSMAN IN HISTORY TO COMPLETE 2000 T20I RUNS IN THE WORLD (52 INNINGS)
  • FASTEST BATSMAN IN HISTORY TO COMPLETE 2500 T20I RUNS IN THE WORLD (62 INNINGS)
  • FASTEST BATSMAN IN HISTORY TO COMPLETE 3000 T20I RUNS IN THE WORLD (81 INNINGS)

MOST CENTURIES IN T20I CRICKET FOR PAKISTAN:

BABAR AZAM3 CENTURIES

The Pakistani captain has scored the most number of centuries in international cricket as a Pakistani batsman and is just one more away from equaling the record of the Indian captain, Rohit Sharma.

  • ALL THE CENTURIES THAT BABAR AZAM HAS SCORED IN HIS T20I CAREER ARE AGAINST SENA TEAMS – SOUTH AFRICA, ENGLAND, AND NEWZEALAND ARE THE TEAMS AGAINST WHOM HE HAS SCORED HIS T20I CENTURIES
  • ALL THE T20I CENTURIES OF BABAR AZAM ARE AS THE CAPTAIN OF THE PAKISTAN TEAM

MOST 50+ SCORES AS T20I CAPTAIN IN A CALENDAR YEAR:

Babar Azam, as the captain of the Pakistan T20I team has scored the most fifties in a calendar year. He scored 9 fifties in a calendar year as a Pakistani captain in just 26 innings he played in the 2022 season.

BABAR AZAM9 SCORES OF 50+

HIGHEST RUNSCORER IN 2021 T20 WORLD CUP:

Pakistani captain, Babar Azam who led his team in the SEMI-FINALS of the T20I World Cup 2021 also led his team from the front as he scored the most number of runs in the 2021 World Cup season for his team. Babar Azam scored 303 runs in the T20 World Cup 2021 that too at an impressive average of 60 and scored 4 fifties in 6 matches of the World Cup.

BABAR AZAM303 RUNS
DAVID WARNER289 RUNS

MOST MATCHES PLAYED AS PAKISTAN’S T20I CAPTAIN:

Babar Azam has captained his team in 71 T20 international matches and no other captain of Pakistan has even captained Pakistan in 50 matches.

BABAR AZAM71 MATCHES
SHAHID AFRIDI44 MATCHES

MOST MATCHES WON AS T20I CAPTAIN:

Babar Azam is the most successful T20I captain in the history of T20I cricket as he has led Pakistan to win 42 times in just 71 matches he has captained Pakistan, he has also broken the record of MS Dhoni who had this record to his name but now this feat belongs to Babar Azam.

BABAR AZAM71 MATCHES42 WINS
MS DHONI72 MATCHES42 WINS

BABAR AZAM AS PAKISTAN’S T20I CAPTAIN:

  • MOST SUCCESSFUL T20I CAPTAIN OF PAKISTAN
  • MOST RUNS AS T20I CAPTAIN OF PAKISTAN
  • MOST FIFTIES AS T20I CAPTAIN OF PAKISTAN
  • CAPTAINED PAKISTAN TO A WIN AGAINST INDIA IN THE WORLD CUP MATCH
  • LED PAKISTAN TO THE SEMIS OF THE 2021 T20 WORLD CUP
  • PAKISTAN WON A T20I SERIES AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA AS WELL AS AGAINST NEWZEALAND AWAY FROM HOME UNDER BABAR’S CAPTAINCY
  • LED PAKISTAN TO THE FINAL OF THE 2022 ASIA CUP
  • LED PAKISTAN TO THE FINAL OF THE 2022 T20 WORLD CUP

BABAR AZAM ODI CRICKET

Babar Azam made his international debut in ODI cricket against Zimbabwe and scored a fifty on his debut, since that he continued to pile runs in this format of the game, dethroned the Indian batting maestro Virat Kohli and is now the top-ranked ODI batsman in the ICC ODI Rankings since 2021 with a huge margin. Here are the records of Babar Azam that he has created in his career as an ODI batsman, which are as follows;

BABAR AZAM QUICKEST TO SCORE ODI RUNS:

  • THIRD-FASTEST BATSMAN TO COMPLETE 1000 RUNS IN ODI CRICKET (21 INNINGS)
  • JOINT-FASTEST BATSMAN TO COMPLETE 2000 RUNS IN ODI CRICKET (45 INNINGS)
  • SECOND-FASTEST ASIAN BATSMAN TO COMPLETE 3000 RUNS IN ODI CRICKET (68 INNINGS)
  • SECOND-FASTEST BATSMAN IN THE WORLD TO COMPLETE 4000 RUNS IN ODI CRICKET (82 INNINGS)
  • FASTEST BATSMAN IN THE WORLD TO COMPLETE 5000 RUNS IN ODI CRICKET (97 INNINGS)

BABAR AZAM QUICKEST TO SCORE ODI CENTURIES:

  • FASTEST BATSMAN IN THE WORLD TO SCORE 7 ODI CENTURIES
  • FASTEST BATSMAN IN THE WORLD TO SCORE 13 ODI CENTURIES
  • FASTEST BATSMAN IN THE WORLD TO SCORE 14 ODI CENTURIES
  • FASTEST BATSMAN IN THE WORLD TO SCORE 15 ODI CENTURIES
  • FASTEST BATSMAN IN THE WORLD TO SCORE 16 ODI CENTURIES
  • FASTEST BATSMAN IN THE WORLD TO SCORE 17 ODI CENTURIES
  • FASTEST BATSMAN IN THE WORLD TO SCORE 18 ODI CENTURIES

MOST ODI CENTURIES FOR PAKISTAN:

Babar Azam as we all know is regarded as a modern-day great and that’s the reason for that because the Pakistani captain has scored the second-most hundreds for Pakistan in the history of this format and is just 2 centuries away from breaking the record of the legendary batsman Saeed Anwar and he has done this in just around 100 ODI matches for the Pakistan team.

SAEED ANWAR20 CENTURIES
BABAR AZAM18 CENTURIES

MOST RUNS IN THE 2019 CRICKET WORLD CUP:


Babar Azam has played only one ODI World Cup in his international career till now and he was the highest run-scorer in the 2019 Cricket World Cup. He scored 474 runs at an average of 67+ in that World Cup season and with that, no Pakistani batsman has scored more runs in a single World Cup edition than Babar Azam.

3 CONSECUTIVE ODI CENTURIES:

When you think of a player with three consecutive centuries in any format of the game, you will think that must be some player who achieved this milestone but then there is Babar Azam who achieved this milestone twice in his ODI career when he scored three ODI centuries in three consecutive innings for the Pakistan team and is the only man on this planet who has this record.

  • OUT OF THOSE 6 CENTURIES, 4 CENTURIES WERE AGAINST THE WEST INDIES TEAM AND 2 WERE SCORED AGAINST AUSTRALIA BY BABAR AZAM
  • WHEN BABAR AZAM SCORED CONSECUTIVE ODI CENTURIES SECOND TIME IN HIS CAREER, HE DID THIS AS THE CAPTAIN OF THE PAKISTAN TEAM

BABAR AZAM AS PAKISTAN’S ODI CAPTAIN:

  • MOST CENTURIES AS ODI CAPTAIN OF PAKISTAN
  • FASTEST TO SCORE 1000 ODI RUNS AS CAPTAIN OF PAKISTAN IN JUST 13 INNINGS
  • MOST RUNS IN ICC WORLD CUP SUPER LEAGUE
  • MOST CENTURIES IN ICC WORLD CUP SUPER LEAGUE
  • WON ODI SERIES AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA (AWAY)
  • WON ODI SERIES AGAINST AUSTRALIA (HOME)
  • HIGHEST INDIVIDUAL SCORE FOR A PAKISTANI CAPTAIN IN ODI CRICKET (158 RUNS VS ENG)
  • WON ODI SERIES AGAINST WINDIES (HOME)
  • WON ODI SERIES AGAINST NEWZEALAND (HOME)

BABAR AZAM TEST CRICKET

The format in which Babar Azam struggled to get going was the TEST cricket and he took some time to adjust to this format but eventually, he learned the art of test batting and started to score runs in this format as well. Babar Azam is now the main player of the Pakistan TEST team as well.

MOST RUNS IN ICC TEST CHAMPIONSHIP (19-21):

Babar Azam was the highest run scorer of the Pakistan team in the inaugural season of the ICC World Test Championship in which he scored 932 runs at an average of 67+ in just 10 matches he played in that season.

MOST RUNS IN ICC TEST CHAMPIONSHIP (21-23):

Babar Azam scored the most number of runs for Pakistan in the recently concluded ICC World Test Championship as well, he was the third-highest on the list of most runs in the world – this tells us the caliber of Babar Azam as a TEST player as well as he has scored the fifth-most number of runs in TEST cricket since 2019, all around the world.

JOE ROOT40 INNINGS1915 RUNS
USMAN KHWAJA28 INNINGS1608 RUNS
BABAR AZAM26 INNINGS1527 RUNS

BABAR AZAM AS PAKISTAN’S TEST CAPTAIN:

  • 196 IN THE FOURTH INNINGS OF A TEST MATCH
  • FOURTH MOST BALLS FACED BY ANY PLAYER IN THE FOURTH INNINGS OF A TEST MATCH (425 BALLS)
  • MOST MINUTES BATTED IN THE FOURTH INNINGS OF A TEST MATCH AS PAKISTAN’S TEAM

BABAR AZAM OVERALL RECORDS:

  • MOST CONSECUTIVE SCORES IN INTERNATIONAL CRICKET AS CAPTAIN (9)
  • MOST CENTURIES IN ALL FORMATS FOR PAKISTAN
  • MOST 50+ SCORES IN A CALENDAR YEAR, BROKE THE RECORD OF RICKY PONTING (25)
  • FIRST PAKISTANI BATSMAN TO SCORE 1000 RUNS IN ALL FORMATS AS CAPTAIN
  • SECOND-PAKISTANI BATSMAN TO SCORE CENTURIES IN ALL FORMATS OF THE GAME
  • FIRST PAKISTANI CAPTAIN TO SCORE CENTURIES IN ALL FORMATS OF THE GAME
  • MOST RUNS SCORED IN ODIS FOR PAKISTAN IN 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, AND 2022
  • MOST RUNS SCORED IN TESTS FOR PAKISTAN IN 2018, 2019, AND 2022
  • LED PAKISTAN TO WIN OVER INDIA IN TOURNAMENTS TWICE (ASIA CUP & T20 WORLD CUP)
  • MOST RUNS SCORED FOR KARACHI KINGS IN PAKISTAN SUPER LEAGUE
  • MOST RUNS SCORED IN THE PAKISTAN SUPER LEAGUE HISTORY (PZ + KK)
  • ONLY BATSMAN TO BE RANKED IN THE TOP 5 OF ALL FORMATS FOR PAKISTAN

BABAR AZAM AWARDS:

Babar Azam made his debut for Pakistan in 2015 and since that, he has been the most consistent player of the Pakistan team. He is a proud name for Pakistan cricket and for that he has also won many awards at the National and International level, here are the awards that he has won as a cricketer;

BABAR AZAM 2017 –

  • MEMBER OF THE ICC MEN’S ODI TEAM OF THE YEAR 2017
  • PCB’S AWARD FOR THE ODI CRICKETER OF THE YEAR 2017

BABAR AZAM 2018 –

  • PCB’S AWARD FOR THE T20I CRICKETER OF THE YEAR 2018

BABAR AZAM 2019 –

  • MEMBER OF THE ICC MEN’S ODI TEAM OF THE YEAR 2019

BABAR AZAM 2020 –

  • WINNER OF HANIF MUHAMMAD CAP IN PSL 2020
  • PAKISTAN SUPER LEAGUE PLAYER OF THE SEMI-FINAL 2020
  • PAKISTAN SUPER LEAGUE PLAYER OF THE FINAL 2020
  • PAKISTAN SUPER LEAGUE PLAYER OF THE TOURNAMENT 2020

BABAR AZAM 2021 –

  • MEMBER OF THE ICC MEN’S ODI TEAM OF THE YEAR 2021
  • PCB’S AWARD FOR THE ODI CRICKETER OF THE YEAR 2021
  • WINNER OF HANIF MUHAMMAD CAP IN PSL 2021
  • MEMBER OF THE ICC MEN’S ODI TEAM OF THE YEAR 2021
  • MEMBER OF THE ICC MEN’S T20I TEAM OF THE YEAR 2021
  • CAPTAIN OF THE ICC MEN’S ODI TEAM OF THE YEAR 2021
  • CAPTAIN OF THE ICC MEN’S T20I TEAM OF THE YEAR 2021
  • CAPTAIN OF THE ICC MEN’S T20 WORLD CUP TEAM 2021
  • ICC PLAYER OF THE MONTH – APRIL 2021

BABAR AZAM 2022 –

  • ICC CRICKETER OF THE YEAR 2022
  • ICC MEN’S ODI CRICKETER OF THE YEAR 2022
  • MEMBER OF THE ICC MEN’S ODI TEAM OF THE YEAR 2022
  • CAPTAIN OF THE ICC MEN’S ODI TEAM OF THE YEAR 2022
  • MEMBER OF THE ICC MEN’S TEST TEAM OF THE YEAR 2022
  • WINNER OF HANIF MUHAMMAD CAP IN PSL 2023
  • ICC PLAYER OF THE MONTH FOR – MARCH 2022

BABAR AZAM 2023 –

  • AWARD OF SITARA-E-IMTIAZ IN 2023

The third highest civilian award was awarded to Babar Azam on March 2023 and he became the youngest ever to achieve this award at the age of just 28 from the government of Pakistan.

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