Sports Desk, New Delhi. Pakistan’s star batsman Babar Azam created history in his short innings against India in the Champions Trophy 2025 on Sunday. Babar Azam scored 23 runs in 26 balls with the help of five fours in the match being played in Dubai.
During this, Babar completed his 1000 runs in ICC ODI tournaments.
Babar Azam became the third batsman from Pakistan to score a thousand or more runs in ICC ODI events. Earlier, Saeed Anwar and Javed Miandad have completed the 1000 run mark in the ICC ODI tournament. Babar Azam entered the club of these legends on Sunday.
Babar was criticized
Let us tell you that 30-year-old Babar Azam is currently under the target of critics due to poor form. Babar Azam had earlier played a very slow innings of 64 runs against New Zealand. Since then he is being severely criticized. Babar Azam was in danger of being dropped from the playing 11 against India. Babar Azam scored his last ODI century in 2023.
Completed 1000 runs in how many innings
However, if we look at the achievement, Babar Azam completed his 1000 runs in ICC ODI events in just 24 innings. Former Pakistan opener Saeed Anwar scored 1204 runs in 25 innings while Javed Miandad scored 1083 runs in 30 innings.
Feat done in the last match
Remind that Babar Azam also created history during his very slow half-century innings against New Zealand. This was Babar Azam’s 100th international half-century. Babar Azam became the second Pakistani batsman to score 100 or more international half-centuries. It is known that Inzamam-ul-Haq is the Pakistani batsman who has scored the most half-centuries at the international level.
Inzamam-ul-Haq has scored 129 half-centuries at the international level. At the same time, Babar Azam has scored 100 half-centuries. Mohammad Yusuf is in third place with 95 half-centuries. Javed Miandad (93) and Misbah-ul-Haq (84) complete the top-5 list.
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