DUBAI: Pakistani opener Mohammad Rizwan entered his name in the record books by becoming the first batter to score 1,000 T20I runs in a calendar year.<\/p>\n
The Pakistani wicketkeeper achieved the feat in the 20 innings he has so far played this year.<\/p>\n
Babar Azam becomes fastest to 2,500 T20I runs<\/b><\/p>\n
Rizwan wasn’t the only one to break a world run when it comes to T20I runs in the Australia vs Pakistan match. Skipper Babar Azam wasn’t far behind.<\/p>\n
The Pakistani skipper became the fastest to score 2,500 T20I runs, achieving the feat in 62 innings.<\/p>\n
Previously, the record was held by Indian captain Virat Kohli, who had score 2,500 T20I runs in 68 innings.<\/p>\n
The Pakistani captain, with his fourth half-century in the tournament last week, had surpassed the record of former Sri Lanka batter Mahela Jayawardene\u2019s record of most runs by a captain in a single edition of the T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n
Babar had then accumulated 264 runs in the tournament. Jayawardene had scored 201 runs as captain of Sri Lanka in 2012.<\/p>\n
The inning of 66 was Babar\u2019s 4th score of fifty or more in this edition of the tournament, no other player has scored more than 4 half-centuries in a single edition of ICC T20 World Cup \u2014 the two others to do so are Kohli and Australia\u2019s Matthew Hayden, who is the current batting consultant of Pakistan team.<\/p>\n
The Pakistan captain had broken another record of Kohli when he became the fastest to score 1,000 T20I runs as captain last month during the T20 World Cup against Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
Azam scored 1,000 T20I runs in 26 innings as the skipper of the Pakistan cricket team.<\/p>\n
Kohli, as captain of the Indian cricket team, had taken 30 innings to score 1,000 T20I runs.<\/p>\n