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Babar Azam

Babar Azam

Height: 5ft 11 inches DOB: 15 October 1994

Born in Lahore Babar Azam is the first cousin of Akmal brothers. He is considered as the next big thing in or Pakistan cricket because of discipline and control temperament. He is the fastest to score 1000 runs in T20I cricket that show how good he is for the shorter format of the game. After scoring runs in domestic cricket Babar got the national team call-up in 2015 against Zimbabwe but his career got new heights when he scores back to back three centuries against West Indies in ODI series which led to his Test cricket debut. He is often compared to Indian `Run Machine` Virat Kohli but Babar regards him as a senior cricketer always.

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Pakistan batsman Babar Azam in fielding action during nets

Pakistan head coach Saqlain Mushtaq backs struggling captain Babar Azam

Cricket | Feb 17, 2022, 11:05 PM IST

Pakistan test players have started a training camp in Karachi under the supervision of Mushtaq and batting coach Mohammad Yousuf. They'll shift to Rawalpindi later this month.

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ICC Awards: Babar Azam, Joe Root, Shaheen Afridi, Lizelle Lee bag top honours

Cricket | Dec 15, 2022, 04:18 PM IST

The 27-year-old Azam, who clinched the ICC ODI Cricketer of 2021 award, scored 405 runs in six games at an average of 67.50 in 2021.

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Babar Azam named ICC ODI Cricketer of 2021

Cricket | Jan 24, 2022, 01:09 PM IST

The 27-year-old was the second-highest run-scorer with 228 runs and was the Player of the Match in both of Pakistan's wins in the 2-1 series victory against South Africa.

Pakistan captain Babar Azam celebrating win against Pakistan with Mohammad Rizwan.

Beating India in T20 World Cup best moment of 2021 for Pak team: Babar Azam

Cricket | Jan 01, 2022, 06:08 PM IST

Babar said beating India for the first time in a World Cup match was the high point for him in 2021. Pakistan defeated India by 10 wickets in the lopsided match.

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PAK vs WI 1st T20I: Babar hopes to carry momentum against virus-hit West Indies

Cricket | Dec 12, 2021, 10:55 PM IST

West Indies Twenty20 squad already miss several top performers -- including 3 COVID-19 positive players -- for the three-match Twenty20 series which will be followed by three ODIs.

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PCB chief Ramiz Raja empowered Babar and instilled fearless cricket before IND-PAK T20 WC game

Cricket | Dec 10, 2021, 02:55 PM IST

Pakistan won eight of their nine T20Is, which included victories in all the group matches at the ICC T20 World Cup, and two Tests in Bangladesh.

Taijul Islam celebrating the big wicket of Abid Ali on Day 1 of the 2nd Test between Bangladesh and

BAN vs PAK 2nd Test, Day 1: Babar Azam half-century helps Pakistan recover vs Bangladesh

Cricket | Dec 04, 2021, 06:02 PM IST

The bad light ended play with Babar batting on 60 and Azhar Ali on 36.

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T20 World Cup: No Indian included in ICC Team of Tournament; Azam named captain

Cricket | Nov 15, 2021, 03:27 PM IST

South Africa's Aiden Markram and Anirch Nortje and Sri Lanka's Charith Asalanka and Wanindu Hasaranga were the players whose teams didn't qualify for the semi-finals but fore the ICC team.

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After claiming Ali's dropped catch was turning point, Babar says dropping catch part of the game

Cricket | Nov 12, 2021, 03:40 PM IST

After Pakistan suffered a five-wicket defeat, courtesy Wade's sensational three consecutive sixes off Shaheen Shah Afridi in the 19th over, Babar had said at the post-match presentation that the scenario of the match could have been different had the catch been taken.  

Pakistan's captain Babar Azam, right congratulates Australia's Matthew Wade on their win during the

PAK vs AUS T20 WC: Wade's drop catch was turning point of match, says Azam

Cricket | Nov 12, 2021, 12:03 AM IST

Wade was on 21 from 13 balls when Ali dropped his catch at cow corner on the bowling Shaheen Afridi. The left-hand batsman went on to score 41 runs in 17 balls with three back to back sixes in the 19th over. 

File photo of Virat Kohli (left) with Babar Azam.

Kohli has achieved a lot but Babar's ability to react to ball is second to none: Hayden

Cricket | Nov 11, 2021, 09:30 PM IST

Pakistan's Australian batting consultant Matthew Hayden has no doubt that Virat Kohli has so far achieved a lot more than the younger Babar Azam but the Pakistan skipper is second to none.

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PAK vs AUS T20 WC: Babar doesn't need to do anything differently against Australia, says Ramiz Raja

Cricket | Nov 10, 2021, 04:30 PM IST

Babar Azam has led the Pakistan team well in the ongoing T20 World Cup and doesn't need to do anything differently in the semi-final against Australia on Thursday, PCB chairman and former skipper Ramiz Raja said on the eve of the game.

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Babar Azam backs Shastri's bio-bubble views, says, 'You need space when you are down'

Cricket | Nov 09, 2021, 05:54 PM IST

Ahead of India's final T20 World Cup game against Namibia, Shastri had said that his players were mentally and physically exhausted after six months of bubble life and a longer break between IPL and the ICC event would have served them better.

Babar Azam plays a shot during Pakistan's T20 World Cup

Babar Azam climbs to No.1 in ICC rankings after super show in T20 World Cup

Cricket | Nov 03, 2021, 04:36 PM IST

Sri Lanka's Wanindu Hasaranga sits atop the bowling rankings for the first time in his career.

File Photo of Virat Kohli and Babar Azam

T20 World Cup 2021: Babar Azam breaks Kohli's record to become fastest captain to 1000 T20I runs

Cricket | Oct 30, 2021, 04:25 PM IST

Pakistan captain Babar Azam is in the form of his life. Cricket fanatics are in awe with his stunning show in the ongoing ICC T20 World Cup, as he looks unstoppable!

Babar Azam (L) and opener Mohammad Rizwan react after Pakistan defeated India in the ICC Men's T20 W

Pakistan vs New Zealand T20 World Cup Live Updates, PAK vs NZ Predicted Playing 11, Toss, Dream 11

Cricket | Oct 26, 2021, 03:50 PM IST

Babar Azam's team would be eyeing another big scalp in New Zealand, the team which recently withdrew from a scheduled series against Pakistan after landing there, citing a security threat that, according to the host country, did not exist.

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IND vs PAK: Imran Khan shared his experience of 1992 World Cup triumph, says Babar

Cricket | Oct 23, 2021, 05:07 PM IST

Former Pakistan captain and the country's current Prime Minister Imran Khan has interacted with the team ahead of the ICC T20 World Cup, said skipper Babar Azam

T20 World Cup 2021: Babar Azam confident of Pakistan's win over India: 'We know the conditions reall

T20 World Cup 2021: Babar Azam confident of win over India: 'We know the conditions really well'

Cricket | Oct 14, 2021, 01:16 PM IST

Pakistan head to the game against India on the back of an unbeaten record in Dubai, having recorded six T20Is wins at the venue.

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Babar Azam surpasses Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli to become fastest to 7000 runs in T20 cricket

Cricket | Oct 03, 2021, 10:27 PM IST

Babar reached the four-figure mark in his 187th innings the format, after reaching the 25-run mark during Central Punjab's chase of 120.

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Babar Azam, Shoaib Akhtar react after New Zealand abandon Pakistan tour citing security threat

Cricket | Sep 17, 2021, 06:42 PM IST

This was New Zealand's first tour of Pakistan in 18 years and the series comprised three ODIs and five T20 Internationals with spectators being allowed at 25 per cent of the stadium capacity.

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