{"id":13630,"date":"2023-01-26T13:18:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T13:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=13630"},"modified":"2023-01-26T13:18:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T13:18:09","slug":"icc-awards-babar-azam-declared-cricketer-of-the-year-for-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/icc-awards-babar-azam-declared-cricketer-of-the-year-for-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC Awards: Babar Azam declared cricketer of the year for 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ICC Awards: Babar Azam declared cricketer of the year for 2022. Pakistan&#8217;s batting genius <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/babarazam258\">Babar Azam<\/a> has bagged another accolade as he has been named the winner of the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for Men&#8217;s Cricketer of 2022.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Babar Azam in 2022:<br \/>44 matches<br \/>2598 runs<br \/>54.12 average<br \/>8 centuries and 17 half-centuries<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ICCAwards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ICCAwards<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FQDQqbdkmV\">pic.twitter.com\/FQDQqbdkmV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealPCB\/status\/1618544852182106112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan skipper scored 2598 runs in 44 matches in 2022, averaging 54.12 with eight centuries and 15 half-centuries.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Babar became the only player to breach the 2,000-run mark during the calendar year across all formats, scoring 679 ODI runs with eight 50+ scores in nine games.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistans-babar-azam-named-captain-of-icc-odi-team-of-2022.html\">Pakistan&#8217;s Babar Azam named captain of ICC ODI Team of 2022<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The right-hander, to no surprise, holds the top spot in ICC ODI batting rankings, with 4th spot in T20Is and 3rd in Tests.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Babar Azam named as ICC Men&#39;s ODI Cricketer of the Year! <br \/>Watch his three consecutive tons against Australia and West Indies in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Which one is your favorite ?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ICCAwards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ICCAwards<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rjs1nLQG4h\">pic.twitter.com\/rjs1nLQG4h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealPCB\/status\/1618527231478726656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old also retained his ODI batting crown of 2021 by winning the ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year award for 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The batting maestro also became the only player in history to score three-consecutive ODI centuries twice. He scored two consecutive centuries against Australia and one against West Indies in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the results not always going Pakistan&#8217;s way, Babar enjoyed a tremendous year in Test cricket. He scored 1,184 runs from just nine matches and did the bulk of the heavy lifting for Pakistan in the longer format.<\/p>\n<p>The year was a breakthrough one for Babar as a white-ball captain too. Under Babar&#8217;s captaincy, Pakistan won all three ODI series they played, losing just one match out of nine at the hands of Australia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Babar Azam is the ICC Men&#39;s ODI Cricketer of the Year for the second year in a row \u2728<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ICCAwards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ICCAwards<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JcTIEtwwPe\">pic.twitter.com\/JcTIEtwwPe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealPCB\/status\/1618500298980601856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan became the finalist of the T20 World Cup in Australia under Babar&#8217;s captaincy \u2014their first since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The ICC has also termed his 196 in the Karachi Test his most memorable performance of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICC Awards: Babar Azam declared cricketer of the year for 2022. Pakistan&#8217;s batting genius Babar Azam has bagged another accolade as he has been named the winner of the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for Men&#8217;s Cricketer of 2022. Babar Azam in 2022:44 matches2598 runs54.12 average8 centuries and 17 half-centuries#ICCAwards pic.twitter.com\/FQDQqbdkmV &mdash; Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[694,301,364],"class_list":["post-13630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-babar-azam","tag-icc","tag-pcb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}