“A CLASSY BATSMAN” BABAR AZAM

Celberation after his Century

Mohammad Babar Azam was born on 15 October 1994 at Lahore. Babar is very popular for his classy batting style. He plays in all the three formats of cricket T20, ODI and Test. As an position batsman in Pakistan cricket team he holds many records. The first record which Babar holds is the leading 1000 runs by any batsman in an ODI format, he also holds the record for scoring the most runs after first 18 and 25 ODI innings respectively by any batsman. He is also the fastest batsman to score 7 centuries in ODI’s and he holds this record on 33 ODI against Sri Lanka. If we look towards ICC rankings so he ranked 4 in ODI and 9 in T20.

We can also say that Babar Azam was born to be a cricketer, he is also the cousin of Akmal brothers. He also have the fame in U19 cricket format as he was the captain of Pakistan cricket team, as Pakistan was not able to won that world cup but it was remarked that on international level this lad will perform on a high peak.

Now despite of all he also performed in many domestic formats as he plays for Karachi kings in Pakistan super league, for Lahore lions in national format, for Syleth sixers in Bangladesh premier league and for Guyana Amazon warriors in Carribean premier league. Recently Babar holds an impressive record of fastest 100 on 26 balls in T10 cricket.

The class of this young guy was notified in his debutant ODI where he scored a 50 against Zimbabwe in 2015. Babar than selected for test and ODI squad. In both the formats Babar was performing ver confidently. As his classy innings were demanding to score a century, he scored 3 consecutive centuries against West Indies in 2016. He became the third batsman to score a 350+ runs in a three match series.

The form of Babar asked the selectors to gave him a chance in test format, he debut his first test match against West Indies in 2016 where he scored 69 in first innings and became the first player to score a fifty on hi test debut through a day/night test. His form continue him to perform against Sri Lanka where he scored two consecutive 100’s and he became the first player to score 7 hundreds in any particular country. The hard work of this young guy proved him as a great batsman as he breaks the records of Hashim Amla and Virat Kohli. His first T20 debut was against England in 2016 where he scored unbeaten 15 runs as Pakistan won the match. He also played the ICC champions trophy 2017 which was won by Pakistan. As we look towards 2017 Babar was leading run scorer for Pakistan in ODI and T20 format for Pakistan with 872 and 352 respectively.

The domestic scenario was not much effective for Babar as he was bought by Islamabad United and due to some injury he was not able to continue the tournament. In second season he was bought by Karachi kings where he was able to perform some of his aggressive and classy innings, scoring 291 runs with the average of 32.33 and finishing the tournament as the second highest run scorer behind his cousin Kamran Akmal. He also retained in third season of PSL by Karachi kings in a diamond category.

Cricket runs in the blood of this young guy. Despite of all the futureof this young guy isvery bright as he holds the top order batsman. Few more big innings are due on Babar as he shown his performance in recent two years.