Babar Azam scored century: A five-match ODI series is being played between Pakistan and New Zealand. In the fourth ODI of the series played on Friday, under the leadership of Babar Azam, Pakistan defeated New Zealand by 102 runs. Captain Babar was the hero of Pakistan’s victory. He scored the 18th century of ODI career. Babar played an inning of 107 runs in 117 balls with the help of 10 fours. I
Due to this, Pakistan scored 334 runs losing six wickets in 50 overs. In response, the New Zealand team was reduced to 232 runs in 43.4 overs. Pakistan has taken a 4-0 lead in the series. The last match of the series will be played in Karachi from May 7.
PAK vs NZ: Babar’s name is the fastest 5000 runs in ODIs :-
Along with the century, Babar also made many records in his name. He has become the fastest batsman to complete 5000 runs in terms of innings in ODIs. Babar achieved this position in 97 innings. In this case, former South African opener Hashim Amla is at number two. At number three are former West Indies batsman Vivian Richards and India’s Virat Kohli. Both did this in 114-114 innings.
Kohli completed 5000 runs in the shortest time :-
However, Kohli is the fastest in terms of timing since his debut. Kohli took five years and 95 days to complete 5000 runs in ODIs. Whereas, Babur took seven years and 339 days.
Babar has so far scored 5088 runs in 99 ODIs. Not only this, Babar is just two centuries behind former veteran batsman Saeed Anwar in scoring the most centuries in ODIs for Pakistan.
Pakistan’s team became number one in ODIs :-
With the victory over New Zealand in the fourth ODI, Pakistan became the number one team in ODIs for the first time. Pakistan leads 4-0 in ODI series.
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