Veteran batter Babar Azam achieved a significant milestone as he became Pakistan’s fifth cricketer to complete 16000 runs in international cricket during the ongoing ODI tri-series on Sunday. He took just 399 innings to complete 16000 runs across the three formats, being third fastest for the Men in Green behind Mohammad Yousuf (388 innings) and Javed Miandad (398 innings). Apart from him, Miandad and Yousuf, Inzamam-ul-Haq and Younis Khan have also made more than 16000 runs across the three formats.
Babar became Pakistan’s third fastest player to reach the milestone during the first ODI of the tri-series against Sri Lanka at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, with England being the other side. He is just the fifth Pakistan player to get to the mark.
took just 399 innings to complete 16000 runs across the three formats, being third fastest for Pakistan behind Mohammad Yousuf (388 innings) and Javed Miandad (398 innings).
Notably, India’s Virat Kohli is the fastest batter to complete 16,000 international runs, having achieved the milestone in his 350th innings. The former white-ball skipper Babar got to the milestone against Sri Lanka. Coming into the match, he needed only seven runs to reach the mark, and he got there pretty quickly in his innings. Babar opened his account with a beautiful drive off Asitha Fernando before another drive through the off-side brought him three runs.
