Babar Azam’s century, Pakistan beat New Zealand by 38 runs

T20 series, Pakistan defeated New Zealand by 38 runs. Pakistan defeated New Zealand by 38 runs in the second match of the five T20 series.

Chasing Pakistan’s target of 193 runs, the Kiwi team managed to score 154 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in the allotted overs and were defeated by 38 runs. In the match played in Lahore, captain Babar Azam won the toss and decided to bat.

Pakistan started the innings steadily and the pair of Babar and Rizwan made a partnership of 99 runs, but Rizwan got out after scoring 50 runs. Fakhrzaman, Saeem Ayub were dismissed without scoring, Imad Wasim was caught after scoring 2 runs. After that, thanks to the responsible innings of Babar and Iftikhar, the national team scored 192 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in the allotted overs.

Babar Azam remained unbeaten with 101 runs and Iftikhar 33 runs.

Matt Henry dismissed 2 players for New Zealand. Chasing Pakistan’s target of 193, New Zealand’s first wicket fell for 44 when Tom Latham was dismissed for 19, followed by Chad Bowes for 26 to Imad Wasim. Val Young 9, Mitchell 9, Neesham 1, Ravindra 5 runs out. The New Zealand team scored 154 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in the allotted overs and suffered a defeat by 38 runs.

Kiwi batsman Mark Chapman remained unbeaten on 65 runs. On behalf of the green shirts, Haris Rauf took 4 wickets while Imad, Zaman and Shadab took one wicket each. Pakistan has taken a 0-2 lead in the 5-match series. On the other hand, the century against New Zealand in Lahore was the third century of Babar Azam’s T20 International career.

India’s Rohit Sharma and Switzerland’s Faheem Nazir scored two centuries each as captain and are second on the list. However, Rohit Sharma tops the list of most international centuries with four centuries. Babar Azam has scored three centuries, India’s Suryakumar Yadav, Australia’s Glenn Mesquill, New Zealand’s Colin Munro and Czech Republic’s Sabron Davies have also scored three international centuries each.

The century against New Zealand in Lahore is Babar Azam’s ninth century in overall T20Is, so he also came second in the list of most centuries scored in overall T20Is. Babar Azam scored the 33rd highest fifty plus score in T20 Internationals, India’s Rohit Sharma also scored 33 fifty plus scores. Only Virat Kohli is ahead of both of them with 38 fifty plus scores.

After today’s innings, Babar Azam overtook Inzamam-ul-Haq on the list of highest international run-scorers as Pakistan captain and now he has moved to the third spot on the list. Babar Azam has scored a total of 5280 international runs as a captain. Misbah-ul-Haq is first in this list with 7392 runs while Imran Khan is second with 5655 runs. Inzamam-ul-Haq scored 5179 runs as captain.