Babar Azam broke this great record of Virat Kohli
Babar Azam: Pakistan team is currently on tour of New Zealand. A 5-match T20 series is being played between the two teams. Pakistan has had a bad start in this series. He has also faced defeat in the second consecutive match. But former team captain Babar Azam managed to score a half-century in the second T20 like the first match. In this match he also broke a big record of Virat Kohli.
Babar broke this record of Virat Kohli
Babar Azam scored 66 runs on 43 balls in this match. He hit 7 fours and 2 sixes in his innings. This was his 100th innings in T20I cricket and the 35th time that he scored 50 or more runs in a T20I match. With this, he has become the batsman to score the highest score of 50 or more after 100 T20I innings. He has left Virat Kohli behind. Virat had scored 50 or more 34 times in 100 T20I innings. But he has lagged behind Kohli in terms of scoring most runs after 100 T20I innings.
Highest 50+ score after 100 innings in T20I
35- Babar Azam*
34- Virat Kohli
25- Rohit Sharma
21- Paul Sterling
21- Jos Buttler
Most T20I runs after 100 innings
3663 – Virat Kohli
3608 – Babar Azam
3013 – Aaron Finch
2976 – Martin Guptill
2773 – Rohit Sharma
2766 – Jos Buttler
2764 – Paul Sterling
Pakistan lost the second T20 match by 21 runs
Shaheen Afridi-led Pakistan team had to face defeat by 21 runs in the second T20 match. New Zealand, who came to bat first in this match, scored 194 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. But in response to this target, Pakistan team was limited to 173 runs in 19.3 overs. Opener Finn Allen scored the most runs for New Zealand in this match. Finn Allen played an inning of 74 runs in 41 balls. At the same time, apart from Babar, Fakhar Zaman scored 50 runs in 25 balls for Pakistan. But both these players could not make their team win.
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