Babar Azam vs Jos Buttler in T20 cricket: Key stats
What's the story
Babar Azam has attained a key milestone in T20s. The Pakistan batter now owns 106 T20 fifty-plus scores. Babar went past England's Jos Buttler, who owns a tally of 105 T20 fifty-plus scores. Babar attained the feat with a knock of 74 from 52 balls against Zimbabwe in Match 4 of the T20I Tri-series in Rawalpindi on Sunday. Here we decode their stats.
Babar
Decoding Babar's stats in T20s
Babar has raced to 11,499 runs in T20 cricket. He averages 42.90 from 326 T20s (315 innings) with the help of 11 hundreds and 95 fifties. As many as 4,392 T20 runs of Babar have come in T20Is for Pakistan from 134 matches at 39.56. This was his 38th fifty in T20Is (100s: 3). Meanwhile, Babar surpassed 1,500 runs in home T20Is.
Buttler
Decoding Buttler's stats in T20s
Buttler owns a tally of 13,507 runs from 473 T20 matches (446 innings) at an average of 35.63. In addition to 97 fifties, the Englishman has belted 8 hundreds. As many as 3,869 of Buttler's T20 runs have come for England in T20Is from 144 matches (132 innings) at 35.49. In addition to 28 fifties, he owns 1 T20I hundred.
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Only three other batters own more 50-plus scores in T20s
Only three other batters owns more 50-plus scores in T20s. As per ESPNcricinfo, David Warner (121), Virat Kohli (114) and Chris Gayle (110) own more fifty-plus scores than Babar and Buttler.