Babar Azam, who is only surpassed by Rohit Sharma on this list, beats Virat Kohli with 41 runs against Australia in the third Twenty20 International.
After powerplay overs, Babar Azam failed to accelerate and left for a 41-run knock, wasting the opportunity to silence the doubters.
Azam Babar Babar Azam, the opener for Pakistan, surpassed former India T20I batsman Virat Kohli on this list of top run scorers with 41 runs against Australia in the third and final Twenty20 International of the series. In T20Is, Babar is now the second-highest run scorer. With 4,231 runs from 159 games, he is only surpassed by Rohit Sharma, the captain of India who won the T20 World Cup in 2024.
In the powerplay overs, Babar got off to a thrilling start. He amassed 24 runs with a strike rate of 200 in the powerplay overs. throughout contrast, wickets continued to fall throughout the middle overs. Babar tried to rush down the track and play a huge shot, but he failed to hit any boundaries after powerplay overs and was finally bowled by Adam Zampa. He scored 41 off of 28 balls, including four fours. Leg-spinner Zampa dismissed Babar for the third time.
At an average of 40.30, Babar has now amassed 4,192 runs from 126 Twenty20 Internationals, including three hundreds and thirty-six fifties. With 4,188 runs from 125 Twenty20 Internationals at an average of 48.69, including one century and 38 fifties, Kohli sits in third place. Babar has been rested from the trip, thus he won't be able to beat the record in Zimbabwe. When Pakistan tours New Zealand following the ICC Champions Trophy in 2025, he is probably going to have an opportunity to unseat Rohit. To take the top place, he has to score 40 more runs.
Babar is not close to any of the current batters. Paul Stirling of Ireland has scored 3,655 runs, followed by Jos Buttler of England (3,389 runs), Mohammad Rizwan of Pakistan (3,329 runs), Glenn Maxwell of Australia (2,664 runs), Suryakumar Yadav of India (2,570 runs), and David Miller of South Africa (2,509 runs).
Rizwan was rested for the dead rubber clash earlier. Agha Salman made his T20I captaincy debut while he was away. In addition, Naseem Shah, who took one wicket in the first two games, was replaced by youthful Jahandad Khan in his T20I debut.
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