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Babar Azam surpasses Virat Kohli with this ODI record

Babar Azam surpasses Virat Kohli with this ODI record

Oct 01, 2019
06:02 pm

What's the story

Pakistani in-form batsman Babar Azam smashed his 11th career ODI century on Monday. He achieved the feat against Sri Lanka in Karachi. The swashbuckling right-handed batsman's tryst with records continued. Babar became the third-fastest to register 11 ODI tons. With this feat, he overcame Indian captain Virat Kohli's tally. Here are the records that Babar smashed.

Babar feat

Babar third-fastest after Amla and De Kock

Babar smashed a 105-ball 115 against Sri Lanka. He hit eight fours and four sixes. The promising player registered his 11th ODI ton and got to this milestone in his 71st inning. Whereas, Kohli had taken 82 innings to script the feat. Former South Africa batsman Hashim Amla holds the record (64 innings). Proteas' wicket-keeper batsman Quinton de Kock (65 innings) follows suit.

Babar in 2019

Sensational Babar gets past 1,000-plus ODI runs in 2019

Babar is a special talent and he amassed the most runs for Pakistan in the 2019 World Cup (474). After this brilliant ton, he also became the first Pakistani batsman to amass 1,000-plus ODI runs this year (1,061). He became the fifth batsman to get past 1,000-plus ODI runs in 2019. Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Aaron Finch and Usman Khawaja are the others.

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Babar up there with Kohli and Rohit

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Babar surpasses Miandad as well with this tally

Babar also broke the record of former legend Javed Miandad to become the fastest Pakistani batsman to cross 1,000-plus runs in a calendar year. The 24-year-old achieved the feat in 19 innings at 62.41, whereas, it had taken 21 innings for Miandad back in 1987.

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A special moment for Babar

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How did the match pan out?

Batting first, Pakistan posted 305/7. Fakhar Zaman and Imam-ul-Haq gave the side a solid start. Babar got along with Haris Sohail (40) to stitch a 111-run stand for the third wicket. In reply, SL were bowled out for 238. They were off to a disastrous start (28/5), however, Shehan Jayasuriya (96) and Dasun Shanaka (68) shared a 177-run stand. Usman Shinwari (5/51) stood out.