Pakistan cricket team captain Babar Azam achieved another big honor in T20 international cricket. Babar Azam made this world record in the opening match of T20 World Cup 2024 against USA.
According to the details, in the important match of T20 World Cup 2024 played against USA in Dallas on Thursday, Babar Azam, the captain of the Pakistani team, became the batsman who scored the most runs in the T20 International.
In this match, he played an innings of 44 runs off 43 balls, which included three fours and two sixes.
Babar Azam has emerged as the highest run-scorer in the shortest format of cricket, surpassing Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, who had previously scored more runs than him.
Highest run scorers in T20 cricket:
Babar Azam 4067 (113 innings)
Virat Kohli 4038 (110 innings)
Rohit Sharma 4026 (144 innings)
Recently, during the four-match T20I series against England, in which the Men in Green lost 2-0 while two matches were lost due to rain. The 29-year-old captain of the national team became the first Pakistani batsman to score 4000 runs in T20 cricket.
Babar Azam has broken the Indian batsman Virat Kohli’s record of scoring the most runs.
Babar Azam has become the highest run scorer in T20I with 4067 runs. He achieved this feat in his 120th T20 International match.
Virat Kohli is second with 4038 runs in 118 matches.