Hobart: Pakistani batsman Babar Azam took second place in the list of all-time top run-scorers in men’s T20 Internationals, surpassing India’s Virat Kohli on Monday.
The former skipper achieved the feat during the third and final T20I of the three-match series against Australia at Bellerive Oval by scoring 41 runs.
Earlier, Australia beat Pakistan to ensure a 3-0 win in the T20I series after defeating the visitors in the final.
Babar now has 4,192 runs in the format, four more than Kohli’s 4,188, while former Indian captain Rohit Sharma remains at the top with 4,231 runs.
Moreover, the Pakistani star now needs 40 more runs to become the best bowler of all time by replacing Sharma, who ended his T20I career with Kohli after India won the 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.
Besides Babar, current white-ball captain Mohammad Rizwan is the only other Pakistani batsman among the top 10 with the most runs in the format.
Notably, the star batsman, who relinquished the Pakistan white-ball captaincy ahead of the white-ball tour of Australia, had a forgettable outing with the bat as the right-handed batsman managed just 80 runs in the three-match ODI series.
Babar’s inability to score big continued in the recently concluded T20I series as he registered all three scores in each of the first two T20Is before a record-breaking 41 runs in the final match.
Most runs in T20Is are for men
Rohit Sharma: 4231
Babar Azzam: 4192
Virat Kohli: 4188
Paul Sterling: 3655