T20 WC: Babar Azam breaks Kohli's record as a captain, becomes fastest to score his thousand runs
Pakistan defeated Afghanistan by five wickets in the match played in Dubai on Friday. Captain Babar Azam played an important role in the team's victory, who scored 51 runs.T20 WC, Babar Azam:
Babar Azam In the T20 World Cup 2021, the Pakistani team has won the third consecutive victory. Pakistan defeated Afghanistan by five wickets in the match played in Dubai on Friday. Captain Babar Azam played an important role in the team's victory, who scored a brilliant 51 runs. During this innings, Babar Azam also made a special record leaving behind Indian captain Virat Kohli.
Actually, Babar has completed his thousand runs in just 26 innings as a captain in T20 International. At the same time, it took 30 innings for Virat Kohli to complete a thousand runs in T20 International as captain. South Africa's Faf du Plessis (31), Australian Aaron Finch (32) and Kiwi captain Kane Williamson (36) are in the top-5 in this matter.
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Alhumdulillah, 3/3!
— Babar Azam (@babarazam258) October 29, 2021
Afghanistan fought well. A brilliant display of bowling from our team, especially Shaheen Shah Afridi and Imad. Fakhar was just remarkable and the awesome finish from Asif Ali was indeed the cherry on top. All eyes set on the next one! ??? #WhyNotMeriJaan pic.twitter.com/u13FKuAKxP
In the post-match press conference, Babar Azam said, 'We started well with the ball and got a lot of wickets as per the plan. Maybe in the end we gave 10-15 runs more. With the bat, we could not take as much advantage of the powerplay as we wanted. Finally with Malik and Asif Ali we knew they could finish the game
Asif Ali also played the role of finisher in Pakistan's victory. Asif played a stormy inning of 25 runs in seven balls, which included four sixes. Now Pakistan will face Namibia and Scotland in their last two matches.
Babar said,
'He (Asif Ali) is known for this. I was confident even before the start of the tournament that he would do well if needed. We had well prepared our plan with the ball. The spinners were getting some help from the track.Afghanistan also have good bowlers and I was trying to take it as deep as I could. Unfortunately, I couldn't finish things but credit goes to Asif Ali
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