Babar Azam achieves historic milestone, joins Inzamam and Miandad in elite Pakistan listing

Babar Azam reached one other milestone in his transnational profession on Sunday, turning into the fifth Pakistan batter to attain 16,000 transnational runs in the course of the first ODI of the tri-series towards Sri Lanka in Rawalpindi.

Babar entered the match with 15,993 runs and wanted seven extra to succeed in the 16,000-run mark. He achieved the feat within the fourth over of the day, having come out to bat after Saim Ayub was dismissed by Dilshan Madushanka. Babar wanted simply six deliveries to finish the milestone, getting there with a 3 off Asitha Fernando.

Since making his transnational debut for Pakistan in 2015, Babar has established himself throughout codecs. The match towards Sri Lanka was his 355th in transnational cricket. However, he fell in need of a half-century, getting out for 45 to Pavan Rathnayake off Eshan Malinga.

Before Babar, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf and Javed Miandad have been the 4 Pakistan batters to cross 16,000 transnational runs.

Inzamam leads Pakistan’s run-scorers in transnational cricket with 20,541 runs in 495 matches throughout codecs between 1991 and 2007. Younis is subsequent with 17,790 runs, adopted by Yousuf, who scored 17,134 runs in 374 matches.

Miandad, who represented Pakistan in Tests and ODIs from 1975 to 1996, completed his profession with 16,213 runs in 357 matches.

India’s Sachin Tendulkar holds the globe report for essentially the most runs in transnational cricket. He scored 34,357 runs throughout his profession, which spanned from 1989 to 2013.

Virat Kohli is second on the listing with 28,527 transnational runs.