DUBAI: Pakistan batting maestro Babar Azam achieved a significant milestone during his team’s ICC Champions Trophy 2025 clash against India here on Sunday.
Babar became the third Pakistan batter to score more than a thousand runs in 50-over ICC tournaments.
Going through a rough patch, the right-hander could only score 23 runs from 26 deliveries with the help of five boundaries.
However, it was enough for the star batter to breach the 1000-run mark, joining the likes of legendary Saeed Anwar and Javed Miandad.
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Saeed Anwar, Pakistan’s best opener, leads the list with 1204 runs, followed by Miandad (1083) and Babar (1014).
Babar Azam achieved the milestone in 24 innings, making him the fastest Pakistani batter to break into an elusive list.
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Meanwhile, Babar is the fastest to amass the milestone, taking 24 innings, one fewer than Anwar.
Fastest to 1000 runs in ICC ODI events for Pakistan:
Babar Azam: 24 innings
Saeed Anwar: 25 innings
Javed Miandad: 30 innings
Playing XIs of Pakistan-India
Pakistan: Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan (c)(wk), Tayyab Tahir, Salman Agha, Khushdil Shah, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Abrar Ahmed
India: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Shami
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