Pakistan captain Babar Azam is touching the heights of success in his career. They are setting new records. On Tuesday he made another record in his name. Babar Azam scored a brilliant 50 runs in the third T20 International match against Ireland. With this he has created history.
Babar Azam scored most half centuries
Babar Azam has become the first batsman in the world to score the most 50+ runs in T-20 International. Babar has broken the record of India's star batsman Virat Kohli by achieving this feat 39 times. The special thing is that till now Virat Kohli has scored 50 plus 38 times. Babar Azam has also scored three centuries in T20 International. Whereas Virat Kohli has a century in his name. This was the 36th half-century of Babar Azam's T20 International career, now he has 36 half-centuries and 3 centuries to his name.
Rohit Sharma is in third place
At the same time, if we talk about Rohit Sharma in this series, then Indian captain Rohit Sharma is at third place in terms of scoring most 50 plus runs in T-20 International. Whereas in fourth place is Mohammad Rizwan of Pakistan, who has scored 50 plus 29 times. Australian batsman David Warner is at fifth position with 27 50 plus scores.
25 runs were scored in the 14th over
Babar Azam wreaked havoc by completing his half-century in the 14th over. He batted brilliantly and scored 25 runs in Ben White's over. Babar hit explosive sixes on the first three balls. After this the fourth ball went blank. After this, once again he took a run on the last ball and hit a six in five balls.
Babar was out after scoring 75 runs.
Babar Azam hit 6 fours and 5 sixes in this match and scored 75 runs in 46 balls at a strike rate of 178.57. In the 16th over, Craig Young got him caught by Curtis Campher and sent him to the pavilion. Let us tell you that before this, Babar Azam had performed shamefully in the second T20 International match against Ireland. He was out without opening the account. When he scored 57 runs in the first T20 match.