Babar Azam Biography 2023

Mohammad Babar Azam is a cricket player from Pakistan who is currently the best batsman in T20 Internationals. He is the captain of Pakistan’s Twenty20 International (T20I) team and the vice-captain of the ODI team.

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Babar Azam Biography

Nickname	Babar Sher
Gender	Male
Age	28 years old (in 2022)
Date of Birth	15 October 1994
Full Name	Mohammad Babar Azam
Profession	Cricketer
Nationality	Pakistani
Birthplace	Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Religion	Islam
Zodiac Sign	Libra

Babar Azam Biography: Babar Azam was born in Lahore, Punjab, on October 15, 1994. He bats with his right hand and throws off-breaks with his right arm. He is the first person to bat on his team, which is his main job.

Babar Azam – Along the Years

Year	Age	Achievement
2010	16	Made First Class Debut for Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited
2012	18	Appointed as the captain of the Pakistan Team in the U19 World Cup
2015	21	Made his One Day International debut against Zimbabwe
2016	22	Made Test debut in a Day/Night Test match
2017	23	Reached 1000 ODI runs in 21 innings
2017	23	Became PCB ODI Player of the Year
2018	24	Suffered a fractured upper arm, and had to take a break from cricket
2019	25	Appointed as the T20I Captain of the Pakistan Cricket Team
2019	25	Picked in ICC Men’s ODI XI of the Year
2020	26	Appointed Test & ODI captain
2021	27	Appointed PSL franchise Karachi Kings skipper
2021	27	Becomes No.1 Ranked ODI and T20I Batter
2021	27	Won ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year 2021
2021	27	Picked as captain in ICC Men’s ODI and T20I XI of the Year
2022	28	Notches up the highest 4th innings score [196] for Pakistan in Test cricket
2023	28	PCB’s ODI Cricketer of the Year 2021.

Babar Azam Cricket Records

Babar Azam Biography: Babar Azam’s performance has had a big impact on cricket, and he currently holds several records, such as:

He is the second-fastest Pakistani batsman to get to 1000 runs in ODI cricket (21 innings).
He is also the Pakistani batsman who got to 2000 runs in ODI cricket faster than anyone else (45 innings). He has tied with Zaheer Abbas and Kevin Pietersen for the record.
Babar Azam is also the Asian player who got to 3000 runs in ODI cricket the fastest (68 innings).
He also holds the record for the most runs scored in his first 25 games (1306 runs).
Babar Azam is the only cricket player who has ever scored 5 centuries in a row in the same country (United Arab Emirates).
Babar is the batsman who reached 7 ODI centuries the quickest (33 innings).
He is also the fastest batsman in T20 Internationals to reach 1000 runs (26 innings).
Babar Azam has also given Pakistan the most runs in a single World Cup (474 runs in the 2019 World Cup).
In 2016, 2017, and 2019, he scored the most runs in ODIs for Pakistan.
In 2018 and 2019, Babar Azam scored the most runs in Tests for Pakistan.
Babar Azam is the person who got to 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 ODI hundreds the fastest.
Babar has the record for the most runs scored by a Pakistani batter in the last innings of a Test, with 196 against Australia in Karachi in 2022.
The fastest captain to score 1000 runs in an ODI is (in 13 innings)
The only batter to do this was the one who did it twice.
The first batter to get 9 scores of 50 or more in a row (across formats).
The T20I runs the fastest to 2000 and 2500.
T20I runs are tied for the fastest to 3000.
One of only three captains in the history of the game, along with T. Dilshan and Faf du
Plessis, to score a 100 in all three formats.
One of the three Pakistani batters who have scored a hundred in all three types of cricket.
Longest reigning No.1 ranked T20I batter.
Most balls a batter faces in the fourth innings of a Test: 425 against Australia in Karachi, 2022.
The ODI Player of the Year Award was given to the first cricketer from Pakistan.
2nd most ODI hundreds (17) for Pakistan.s:

Babar Azam Awards and Accolades

Babar Azam Biography: In recent years, Babar Azam has been a great player for Pakistani Cricket. He was chosen for the 2017 ICC World XI and has won the PCB Player of the Year award two years in a row. In 2017, Babar won the award for how well he played in One-Day Internationals. In 2018, he won the same award for how well he played in T20 Internationals.

Babar Azam Cricket Journey

Named in ICC ODI XI of the Year, 2019.
Player of the Tournament in PSL 2020.
PCB’s ‘Most Valuable Player of the Year 2020.
Named ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year, 2021.
Appointed Captain of ICC Men’s ODI and T20I Team of the Year 2021.
Named captain of ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 Team of the Tournament.
PCB’s ODI Cricketer of the Year 2021.

Babar Azam Career

Babar Azam has had a long and successful career. He has played for many teams, both in and outside of Pakistan. He played cricket professionally for the first time when he was 13 years old.

Babar Azam Biography Domestic Career

Babar Azam Biography: Babar Azam’s first-class career began in 2010 when he started playing for Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited. On December 10, 2010, he played his first game in the First Class against National Bank Limited in the 2010 Qaid e Azam Trophy. He got 54 runs after hitting 114 balls, but the game ended in a tie.

In his first game in List A, in the Royal Bank of Scotland Cup at Multan, he made 50 runs, which was a big part of his team’s win. But on December 1, 2012, he played his first T20 match for Lahore Eagles against Hyderabad Hawks in Lahore in the Faysal Bank T20 Cup.

Babar Azam Biography ODI Career

Babar played his first international cricket game on May 31, 2015, in Lahore. It was a One Day International against a weaker Zimbabwe team. On his first try, he got 54 runs, but the game ended in a tie. But he kept playing well in the games and became one of the most reliable batsmen for the Pakistan cricket team in limited-overs cricket.

He became the fastest Pakistani batsman to reach the 2000 and 3000 run marks, both of which he did in just 21 innings. In his first international tournament, the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, he scored 46 runs, which helped Pakistan win the trophy.

Babar Azam 2018-19

Over the next two years, 2018 and 2019, Babar went on to show that he was the next best thing in ODIs by making hundreds like they were nothing.

In 2019, Azam hit 1092 runs in 20 innings, with 3 hundred, for an average of 60.66 runs per game. During the World Cup in England, he became the most important batsman for Pakistan. This was his best moment.

Babar Azam Biography: His hundred against New Zealand, which won the game and kept Pakistan in the competition, shot him to the top of the star list. Overall, the stylish batter scored 474 runs in 8 innings, with an average of 67.71. He had 4 scores of 50 or more, and one score of 100. He was chosen for the ICC’s ODI Team of the Year in the end. In the end, in May 2020, he was named captain of Pakistan.

Babar Azam Biography Test Career

On October 13, 2016, Babar Azam played his first Test match against West Indies in Dubai. His team won by 56 runs because he scored 69 runs in the first inning and 21 runs in the second. He is one of the few players to have made his debut in a Day/Night Test match.

Babar Azam Biography: He has done well recently, and in the last 5 innings, he has scored 397 runs. In 2019, he has scored the most runs for Pakistan in the longest form of the game. Three of his four Test centuries have come in 2019 at important points in the games.

Due to the global pandemic, Babar only got to play in 4 Tests in 2020. However, the stylish right-hander made the most of his chances, scoring 338 runs at 67.60 with 1 hundred in those 4 games.

After losing 0-1 in England, Azhar Ali was replaced as Test captain by Azam.

Babar Azam 2021 Career

By his standards, 2021 was a slow year. He only scored 416 runs in 8 innings, which is 34.66 runs per game.

But he came back with a bang in 2022, when he hit 661 runs in 5 games. He made a patient, game-saving, record-breaking 196 in the 4th innings against Australia in Karachi, and he followed that up with a game-winning 119 and 55 against Sri Lanka in Galle in July.

Babar Azam Biography: His 196 against Australia is the best score by a captain in the fourth innings of a Test match. It was previously held by Mike Atherton of England, who scored 185 runs against South Africa in 1995. For his 196 runs, Babar faced 425 deliveries. This is the most any batter has ever faced in the last innings of a Test.

Babar Azam 2019 CAREER

Since the start of 2019, Babar has scored the most runs for Pakistan in Tests, with 2031 runs in 39 innings.

Babar Azam Biography T20I Career

Babar Azam Biography: He was given a chance to play in the only T20I match against England on September 7, 2016, because he was a great batsman in ODIs. Due to the small goal, Pakistan won the game by 9 wickets, and Babar scored 15 runs without being out.

But Babar was a consistent batter in the shortest version of the game, and he went on to score two runs in a row. So far, he has 12 half-centuries and a high score of 97 runs. His batting average is above 50, which makes him one of the best T20I batsmen in the World.

In the years that followed, Babar kept making runs for fun in the shortest version of the game, which helped him get to the No. 1 spot.

Babar Azam 2020 CAREER

In 2020, he scored 276 runs in 6 innings at 55.20/144.50 with 4 scores of 50 or more. In 2021, he had a great year, scoring 939 runs at 37.56/127.58 with 10 scores of 50 or more, including his first hundred, 122 (59 vs. South Africa at Centurion).

Babar Azam Biography: During the Super-12 T20 World Cup match in Dubai, he also led Pakistan to their first-ever win over arch-rivals India. Azam also had the most runs in the event, with 303 in 6 innings at a score of 60.60/126.25, but his team lost to Australia in the semifinals.

Because of this, he passed Dawid Malan to become the best T20I batter and was also chosen to lead the ICC T20 World Cup XI in 2021.

Besides being the fastest to reach 1000 runs, Babar is also the fastest to reach 2000 runs (in 52 innings), 2500 runs (in 62 innings), and 3000 T20I runs (with Virat Kohli) (81 innings).

During the Asia Cup in 2022, Azam had a rare dry spell. He only scored 68 runs in 6 innings. Mohammad Rizwan, his opening partner, beat him out for the No. 1 spot in the end.

But he soon got back into form. In September, he hit 110* off 66 against England in Karachi. This made him the first Pakistani batter to hit 2 T20I tonnes. He and Rizwan became the most successful opening pair in T20Is as a result. So far, the two of them have scored 2,313 runs together in 45 innings. They have had 16 stands of 50 or more runs, and eight of them have been over 100.

Babar Azam Biography Club Career

In franchise tournaments, Babar Azam has played for a number of different cricket clubs. He plays for Karachi Kings in the Pakistan Super League and for Somerset in the English County Cricket. In the Bangladesh Premier League, he has played for Sylhet Sixers and Rangpur Riders.

Babar Azam Biography: He has also played for Guyana Amazon Warriors in the 2017 Caribbean Premier League and for Islamabad United in the 2016 Pakistan Super League.

In 2017, the Karachi Kings chose Babar. And three years after that, he led the team to a championship with the bat.

In 11 innings, he got 473 runs at 59.12/124.14 and 5 scores of 50 or more. This made him the “Player of the Tournament.”

Babar’s great play continued in the 2021 season, and before the PSL 07, he was named captain of Karachi Kings.

He scored 343 runs in 10 innings with a batting average of 38.11/118.68, but he wasn’t able to motivate his team as a leader, and the 2020 champions ended up at the bottom of the table.

Babar has scored the most runs in the history of the PSL as a whole. He has scored 2413 runs at a rate of 42.33/121 in 66 innings, with 23 scores of 50 or more.

Babar also played in the 2020 T20 Blast for the English county Somerset, where he scored 218 runs in 7 innings at 36.33/137.97 and one hundred.

Babar Azam Captaincy

Babar Azam is the new captain of the Pakistani T20I team. He has already led the team in one game, which didn’t go well. But he has been in charge of the U19 team for 21 games and won 13 of them. He has also led Central Punjab, his home team, in the National T20 Championship twice, in 2018 and 2019.

Babar Azam was named T20I captain in September 2019, and since then, Pakistan has won 36 of the 59 games he has led, and lost 18 of them.

Babar Azam Biography 2023

Babar Azam Biography: In 2020, he will be captain for both ODIs and Tests. In 18 ODIs as captain, Babar has won 12, lost 5, and had one game ended in a “not-result” (NR). As far as Tests go, Azam has won 8 out of 13 and lost only 3.

Babar Azam Family

Azam Siddique’s son is Babar Azam. He is related to cricket players Kamran Akmal, Umar Akmal, and Adnan Akmal, all of whom are his cousins. Safeer Azam is the name of his brother.

In 2021, word spread quickly that Babar Azam was going to marry his cousin. But the Pakistan captain shot down the rumors by saying that cricket is the only thing on his mind right now.