Print | Babar Azam enters record books, achieves major WTC feat against England

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Babar Azam enters record books, achieves major WTC feat against England | Cricket News

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Pakistan's Babar Azam (AP photo)

Babar Azam reached a significant milestone during Pakistan's fightback against England at Edgbaston on Friday, becoming only the fourth batter to score 2,000 runs as captain in the World Test Championship.The Pakistan batter reached the landmark in the third innings of the third Test against England, joining an exclusive list headed by England's Joe Root, who is also featuring in the match. Ben Stokes and Sri Lanka's Dimuth Karunaratne are the other two batters to have crossed the mark.Babar got there in 41 innings, making him the third-fastest batter to reach 2,000 WTC runs as captain. Root and Karunaratne share the record for reaching the milestone fastest, having done so in 40 innings. Stokes took 61 innings to achieve the feat.

Most runs as captain in WTC

Player	Country	Innings	Runs	Highest Score	Batting Average	Centuries	Fifties
Joe Root	England	66	3060	228	48.57	8	32
Ben Stokes	England	71	2182	155	32.56	3	32
Dimuth Karunaratne	Sri Lanka	45	2160	244	49.09	6	22
Babar Azam	Pakistan	41	2015	196	53.02	4	24
Kraigg Brathwaite	West Indies	64	1994	160	32.68	3	24
Virat Kohli	India	37	1349	254*	38.54	2	16
Tom Latham	New Zealand	37	1338	252	36.16	5	9
Rohit Sharma	India	42	1254	131	30.58	4	15
Dhananjaya de Silva	Sri Lanka	31	1130	120	37.66	3	15
Najmul Hossain Shanto	Bangladesh	30	1130	148	38.96	4	12

Babar's contribution to the milestone came with a substantial 76 off 103 balls. His innings, which contained 11 boundaries and a six against Jofra Archer, took his WTC tally as captain to 2,015 runs.It was also Babar's first half-century of the three-Test series. He had missed the opening Test because of injury before returning to the Pakistan side.

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