{"id":14921,"date":"2023-03-23T12:27:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T12:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=14921"},"modified":"2023-03-23T12:31:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T12:31:18","slug":"watch-babar-azam-becomes-youngest-cricketer-to-receive-sitara-e-imtiaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/uncategorized\/watch-babar-azam-becomes-youngest-cricketer-to-receive-sitara-e-imtiaz\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Babar Azam becomes youngest cricketer to receive Sitara-e-Imtiaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH: Babar Azam becomes youngest cricketer to receive Sitara-e-Imtiaz. Pakistan captain <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Babar_Azam\">Babar Azam<\/a> on Thursday became the youngest cricketer to be conferred with the country&#8217;s third-highest civilian award Sitara-e-Imtiaz.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s all-format captain Babar was conferred with the award by Governor Baligh Ur Rehman at an investiture ceremony held at the Punjab Governor House as part of Pakistan Day celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/cricketpakcompk\/status\/1638810748691283970?s=20<\/p>\n<p>With the conferment of the award, Babar has become the youngest cricketer to be awarded Sitara-e-Imtiaz at the age of 28 for his outstanding achievements in the field of sports.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/babarazam258\/status\/1638834227113259012?s=20<\/p>\n<p>The skipper called it an &#8220;immense honour&#8221; to receives the award in the presence of his parrents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This award is for my parents, fans and the people of Pakistan,&#8221; he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Babar&#8217;s predecessor Sarfaraz Ahmed held the record as the youngest cricketer to be awarded the Sitara-e-Imtiaz.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/icc-awards-babar-azam-declared-cricketer-of-the-year-for-2022.html\">ICC Awards: Babar Azam declared cricketer of the year for 2022<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sarfaraz, who led Pakistan to the Champions Trophy title in 2017, was conferred with the award by then Sindh governor Mohammad Zubair at the Governor House in Karachi in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Last year on August 14, the government announced that it will be conferring Babar with the country\u2019s third-highest civilian honour.<\/p>\n<p>Babar made his debut in international cricket in May 2015 against Zimbabwe. His performances eventually led debuts to T20Is and Tests in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In 47 Tests, Babar has scored 3,696 runs with an average of 48.63, while in 95 ODI&#8217;s Babar has scored 4,813 runs at an average of 59.41. In 99 T20Is, Babar has amassed 3,355 runs at an average of 41.41.<\/p>\n<p>Babar, in his ongoing cricket career, has won multiple awards including ICC Men&#8217;s ODI Player of the Year,\u00a0 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy. Under his captaincy, Pakistan defeated India for the first time in a world cup match and also reached the finals of the last T20 world cup.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Babar and Sarfaraz other cricketers that have received the award include Misbah-ul-Haq, Younis Khan, and Shahid Afridi for their outstanding contributions.<\/p>\n<p>While Mohammad Yousuf received the award in 2011, Saeed Ajmal in 2015, Inzamam ul Haq in 2005 and Javed Miandad in 1992.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH: Babar Azam becomes youngest cricketer to receive Sitara-e-Imtiaz. Pakistan captain Babar Azam on Thursday became the youngest cricketer to be conferred with the country&#8217;s third-highest civilian award Sitara-e-Imtiaz. Pakistan\u2019s all-format captain Babar was conferred with the award by Governor Baligh Ur Rehman at an investiture ceremony held at the Punjab Governor House as part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[694,8103,8593,301,138,364],"class_list":["post-14921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-babar-azam","tag-baligh-ur-rehman","tag-sitara-e-imtiaz","tag-icc","tag-pakistan","tag-pcb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921","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=14921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}