Karachi
\nPakistan\u2019s star batter Babar Azam achieved another milestone on Friday during the final of the tri-series against New Zealand at the National Bank Stadium, becoming the latest Pakistani cricketer to join the exclusive 6,000-run club in One Day Internationals (ODIs).
\nThe 30-year-old\u2019s career tally now includes 34 half-centuries and 19 centuries, highlighting his consistency and dominance in the format.
\nBabar Azam becomes the 11th Pakistani cricketer to surpass 6,000 ODI runs, joining an elite group of players.
\nThe list is led by Inzamam-ul-Haq, with 11,701 runs, followed by Mohammad Yousuf (9,554 runs) and Saeed Anwar (8,824 runs).
\nIn addition to this remarkable achievement, Babar equaled former South African batsman Hashim Amla\u2019s record as the joint-fastest to reach 6,000 ODI runs, both accomplishing the feat in just 123 innings.
\nFastest to 6,000 ODI Runs:
\nBabar Azam (Pakistan): 123 innings
\nHashim Amla (South Africa): 123 innings
\nVirat Kohli (India): 136 innings
\nKane Williamson (New Zealand): 139 innings
\nDavid Warner (Australia): 139 innings
\nBabar Azam also holds the record for the fastest 5,000 ODI runs, having reached the milestone in just 97 innings.
\nApart from surpassing the 6,000-run mark, Babar is now one century away from equaling Saeed Anwar\u2019s record for the most ODI centuries by a Pakistani batter. Anwar holds the record with 20 centuries, while Babar has 19 to his name.
\nMost ODI Centuries for Pakistan:
\nSaeed Anwar: 20 centuries
\nBabar Azam: 19 centuries
\nMohammad Yousuf: 15 centuries
\nFakhar Zaman: 11 centuries
\nMohammad Hafeez: 11 centuries
\nEarlier in 2024, former Pakistan captain Babar Azam piped India\u2019s Virat Kohli to become the second-highest run-getter in the T20I format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Karachi Pakistan\u2019s star batter Babar Azam achieved another milestone on Friday during the final of the tri-series against New Zealand at the National Bank Stadium, becoming the latest Pakistani cricketer to join the exclusive 6,000-run club in One Day Internationals (ODIs). The 30-year-old\u2019s career tally now includes 34 half-centuries and 19 centuries, highlighting his consistency …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":77094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77096,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77076\/revisions\/77096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}