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Mohammad Babar Azam (Template:Lang-ur; born 15 October 1994) is an international Pakistani cricketer who plays in all three formats for Pakistan. He captained the Pakistan Under-19 cricket team at the 2012 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He also holds the record of scoring most runs after first 25 ODI Innings by any batsman in the world. Azam is currently the No. 1 T20I batsman and holds the world record of being the fastest batsman to score 1,000 runs (in just 26 innings) in T20I cricket breaking Virat Kohli's record of 27 innings.

Early life

Babar Azam was born on 15 October 1994 in Lahore, Punjab to a Punjabi Muslim family. He grew up in the Walled City of Lahore, and began his domestic cricket career there. He comes from a cricketing background, with three of his cousins having represented Pakistan internationally; Kamran Akmal, Umar Akmal and Adnan Akmal.

International career

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No. 1 T20I Team and Rise to the top in T20I batsmen ranking

Pakistan's first assignment in 2018 was tour to New Zealand. Babar was an automatic selection in the ODI team. However he could score only 0, 10, 8, 3, 10 across 5 innings, scoring only 31 runs at an average of 6.2 as Pakistan were whitewashed 5–0. But performed well in the T20I series as Pakistan went on to win the series 2–1. Babar was the leading run scorer with 109 runs. He had scores of 41, 50* and 18 in these T20Is. He became the no.1 T20I batsmen, the second to reach the feat after Misbah-ul-Haq, but soon slipped to no. 3 position. He regained no. 1 spot in the rankings after a successful series against West Indies, who were touring Pakistan after thirteen years. He finished the series with most runs and winning Man of the series award as well, scoring 165 runs at an average of 82.50 and a strike rate of 148.64. His best performance came in the second T20I where he scored an unbeaten 97 runs which won him Man of the match award. He scored 17 and 51 in 1st and 3rd T20I respectively. Pakistan won the series 3–0.

During a Test match against England in May 2018, Azam was struck on the arm without padding by a bouncer from Ben Stokes, when he was batting on 68. After an X-ray examination, it was confirmed that Azam had a fracture in his left wrist with a broken forearm. As a result of this injury, he missed 4 to 6 weeks of cricket for rest and recuperation.

In November 2018, in the second Test against New Zealand, Azam scored his first century in Test cricket.

PSL career

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Records and achievements

Milestones

• Second joint-fastest in the world to reach 1,000 ODIs runs.
• Second joint-fastest in the world to reach 2,000 ODI runs.
• Fastest Pakistani and second fastest batsman in the world to reach 5th, 6th and 8th ODI hundreds.
• Fastest batsman in the world to reach 7th ODI hundred (33 innings).
• Second youngest cricketer to score three consecutive ODI hundreds.
• Only batsman in ODI history to score 5 consecutive centuries in one country.

Awards

• PCB's ODI Player of the year: 2017
• ICC World ODI XI: 2017
• PCB's T20I Player of the year: 2018

References

1. "Babar Azam to lead Pakistan in U-19 World Cup". Cricinfo. 6 July 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
2. ^ Records | One-Day Internationals | Batting records | Fastest to 1000 runs | ESPN Cricinfo, Stats.espncricinfo.com, 2017-2-01. Retrieved 2017-2-01.
3. ^ "RECORDS / ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS / BATTING RECORDS / FASTEST TO 2000 RUNS". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
4. Most runs after first 25 ODI Innings, Geo News, 2017-4-10. Retrieved 2017-4-11.
5. "Records / Twenty20 Internationals / Batting Records / Fastest to 1,000 runs". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 4 November 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
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8. "Babar Azam becomes second Pakistani to top ICC T20I rankings". SAMMA TV. 28 January 2018. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
9. "Babar Azam back on top with a bang in latest T20I rankings". Retrieved 4 April 2018.
10. "West Indies tour of Pakistan, 2nd T20I: Pakistan v West Indies at National Stadium, Karachi (NSK), 2nd April 2018". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
11. "Azam defends his T20 approach after missing out on century". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
12. "Babar Azam ruled out of the England Test series". Geo Tv. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
13. "2nd Test: Pakistan declare on 418, Azam scores first century". Dunya News. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
14. "Fastest to first five ODIs Tons". Hindustan Times.
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19. "Mohammad Abbas, Hasan Ali and Babar Azam big winners at the Pakistan Cricket Board's annual awards night". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 August 2018.

External links

• Babar Azam at ESPNcricinfo
• Babar Azam interview with alrasub.com
• Babar Azam on Twitter
• "Five consecutive tons in the UAE for Babar Azam"

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Pakistan squads

v t e Pakistan squad – 2017 ICC Champions Trophy – Champions (1st title) 54 Sarfaraz Ahmed (c) & (wk) 19 Ahmed Shehzad 79 Azhar Ali 56 Babar Azam 41 Faheem Ashraf 39 Fakhar Zaman 32 Hasan Ali 9 Imad Wasim 83 Junaid Khan 5 Mohammad Amir 8 Mohammad Hafeez 89 Haris Sohail 29 Shadab Khan 18 Shoaib Malik 47 Wahab Riaz 15 Rumman Raees Coach: Mickey Arthur Haris Sohail was not initially in the squad, but was named as replacement for Umar Akmal. Rumman Raees was not initially in the squad, but was named as replacement for injured Wahab Riaz.

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