{"id":3576,"date":"2021-10-30T11:28:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T11:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=3576"},"modified":"2021-10-30T11:28:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T11:28:23","slug":"captain-babar-azam-achieves-another-milestone-against-kohli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/uncategorized\/captain-babar-azam-achieves-another-milestone-against-kohli\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Babar Azam achieves another milestone against Kohli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Pakistan skipper Babar Azam on Friday equaled another T20 record earlier held by India&#8217;s Virat Kohli \u2014 most T20 50s as captain \u2014 with a half-century against Afghanistan in last night&#8217;s thriller of a T20 World Cup match up.<br \/>\nThe star Pakistani batter has now scored 13 half-centuries in the shortest format as captain \u2014 equaling Kohli&#8217;s record, but at a better rate.<br \/>\nIt took Azam only 26 innings to reach the milestone, while the Indian skipper has scored as many in 44 innings.<br \/>\nAaron Finch of Australia and Kane Williamson of New Zealand are next in line, having scored 11 half-centuries in 51 and 50 innings, respectively.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, England&#8217;s Eoin Morgan has scored nine half-centuries in 60 innings.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/babar-azam-has-a-message-special-for-young-talented-pakistani-cricketers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Babar Azam has a message special for young talented Pakistani cricketers<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Pakistan skipper Babar Azam on Friday equaled another T20 record earlier held by India&#8217;s Virat Kohli \u2014 most T20 50s as captain \u2014 with a half-century against Afghanistan in last night&#8217;s thriller of a T20 World Cup match up. The star Pakistani batter has now scored 13 half-centuries in the shortest format as captain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[389,2132,516,1810,1254,2097,172],"class_list":["post-3576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-afghanistan","tag-kane-williamson","tag-new-zealand","tag-pakistan-skipper-babar-azam","tag-t20-world-cup","tag-virat-kohli","tag-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576","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=3576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}