Pakistan’s star batsman Babar Azam recently achieved the feat of scoring a brilliant century in the second match of the ODI series against Sri Lanka. In this way, Babar’s century drought of 807 days also ended. Babar scored a century after 83 innings. He could score only 34 runs in the third and last ODI match of the ODI series. After this, ICC also fined him 10 percent of his match fee because after getting out, he hit the stumps in anger with his bat, and now another shameful record with his name.
Out on a duck in Pakistan vs Zimbabwe T20 match
Following the ODI series, Babar Azam came out to bat against Zimbabwe in the first match of the T20I tri-series on November 18th and could only face three balls. Babar couldn’t even open his account and fell victim to Zimbabwe all-rounder Brad Evans. This marked his ninth consecutive duck in T20I cricket. He also surpassed Shahid Afridi for the most ducks in T20I cricket. Afridi had returned to the pavilion eight times without opening his account in the shortest format of cricket.
Babar Azam has now reached the second spot in T20I cricket for the most ducks and is now in danger of becoming the No. 1 batsman. Two batsmen are jointly ranked first. Sam Ayub and Umar Akmal, with 10 ducks each, are the Pakistani batsmen with the most ducks in T20Is. This means that with two more ducks, Babar will surpass Ayub and Akmal to become the No. 1 Pakistani player in this shameful club.
Pakistani cricketers with the most ducks in T20 International cricket
10 – Sam Ayub
10 – Umar Akmal
9 – Babar Azam
8 – Shahid Afridi
It’s worth noting that Babar Azam has struggled since returning to T20I cricket. He has been dismissed for zero three times in his last six T20I innings. Prior to this, he had been out of Pakistan’s T20I team for a long time. He recently returned to action in the T20I series against South Africa.