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KARACHI: Pakistan’s skipper Babar Azam on Monday became the only 6th Pakistani cricketer to score 1,000 Test runs in a year in the Test series against the English cricket team.
Babar Azam reached this milestone on the 3rd day of the Karachi test against England when the skipper reached 45 in his innings. He was out following scoring 54 in the Karachi test.
It may be recalled that this was the 7th occasion of a Pakistani player scoring 1,000 Test runs in a year, Babar Azam is the 6th cricketer from Pakistan to do so as former captain Younis Khan had achieved this feat two times.
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Younis Khan made 1,179 runs in 2006 and another 1,064 scores in 2014. Earlier, Mohammad Yousuf had scored 1,788 runs, Azhar Ali 1,198 runs, Inzamam-ul-Haq 1,090 runs and Mohsin Khan 1,029 runs.
England cricketer Joe Root has scored 1,098 runs, Australia’s Usman Khawaja 1,079 runs, and England’s Jonny Bairstow 1,061 runs in the current year.
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Babar Azam has two more innings left in the current year as Pakistan will play a Test match against New Zealand in Karachi. He can finish the year 2022 as the leading Test runs scorer. Babar Azam is in the third spot of the ICC’s career-best rankings with 871 points.
