Babar Azam enters record books, achieves major WTC feat against England | Cricket News


Babar Azam enters record books, achieves major WTC feat against England
Pakistan’s Babar Azam (AP photo)

Babar Azam reached a significant milestone during Pakistan’s fightback against England at Edgbaston on Friday, becoming only the fourth batter to score 2,000 runs as captain in the World Test Championship.The Pakistan batter reached the landmark in the third innings of the third Test against England, joining an exclusive list headed by England’s Joe Root, who is also featuring in the match. Ben Stokes and Sri Lanka’s Dimuth Karunaratne are the other two batters to have crossed the mark.Babar got there in 41 innings, making him the third-fastest batter to reach 2,000 WTC runs as captain. Root and Karunaratne share the record for reaching the milestone fastest, having done so in 40 innings. Stokes took 61 innings to achieve the feat.

Most runs as captain in WTC

Player Country Innings Runs Highest Score Batting Average Centuries Fifties
Joe Root England 66 3060 228 48.57 8 32
Ben Stokes England 71 2182 155 32.56 3 32
Dimuth Karunaratne Sri Lanka 45 2160 244 49.09 6 22
Babar Azam Pakistan 41 2015 196 53.02 4 24
Kraigg Brathwaite West Indies 64 1994 160 32.68 3 24
Virat Kohli India 37 1349 254* 38.54 2 16
Tom Latham New Zealand 37 1338 252 36.16 5 9
Rohit Sharma India 42 1254 131 30.58 4 15
Dhananjaya de Silva Sri Lanka 31 1130 120 37.66 3 15
Najmul Hossain Shanto Bangladesh 30 1130 148 38.96 4 12

Babar’s contribution to the milestone came with a substantial 76 off 103 balls. His innings, which contained 11 boundaries and a six against Jofra Archer, took his WTC tally as captain to 2,015 runs.It was also Babar’s first half-century of the three-Test series. He had missed the opening Test because of injury before returning to the Pakistan side.

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