t20 World Cup 2021 : Babar, Rizwan Break Multiple Records

Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan Break Records in t20 World Cup 2021 | Pakistan’s Hopes High

Pakistan Cricket Team has put a band aid on critics as the Men in Green have stunned everyone with their performance both with bat and ball in the ongoing t20 World Cup 2021. The opening pair Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan has given the team the boost that was pretty rare in the past. The opening pair have set several T20I records list during their T20 World Cup match against Namibia at Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.

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The records are as follows :

• Most century partnerships ever.
• Most runs as batting partners in a calendar year.
• Most T20I runs by a batter in a calendar year
• Most scores of 50 or more in T20Is a captain
• Most runs after first 60 innings of a player’s career in T20Is.

Babar and Rizwan scored 113 runs for the first wicket partnership against Namibia, their 5th century-stand as batting partners — the most by any batting partners ever in the shortest format of the game.

Records List By Opening Pair

They broke the record held by Indian duo of Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan and New Zealand’s Martin Guptill and Kane Williamson — both have scored four centuries in their partnerships.

The opening pair also engraved the title of becoming the first ever batting partners in the world having aggregate 1,000 partnership runs in a year. They’ve scored 1,041 runs this year in 17 partnerships.

Babar Azam , the Pak’s skipper with his 70 off 49 in the innings, leaves Indian skipper Virat Kohli behind. He now holds the record of most 50+ scores as a captain in T20Is.

Furthermore, the Pakistan’s skipper , now has as many as 14 50+ scores, including one 100+ score, one more than Kohli. The Indian counterpart has 13 scores of 50 or more in his name, less than Babar.

Babar has now scored 2,402 runs in 60 T20I innings in his overall career by now and it is now the most by any batsman at this stage of his T20I career. On contrary Kohli had scored 2,167 runs after first 60 T20I innings in his career.

Mohammad Rizwan has added another feather to his performance by becoming the first ever cricketer to score 900+ T20I runs in calendar year. No other player has been able to score over 748 in a year.

Rizwan surpassed his team mate Babar (1,607) and Kohli (1,614) in the list of most overall T20 runs in a calendar year.

With 1,651 T20 runs in 2021, Rizwan is now only four runs behind Chris Gayle in the list of most T20 runs in a calendar year. The West Indian had scored 1,665 runs in 2015. The wicket keeper batsman is certain to break Gayle’s record this year.

He has also surpassed Kohli in the highest T20I career averages (minimum qualification 1,000 runs) today with an unbeaten 79 today. Rizwan’s career batting average is now 52.66 among all the 73 batsmen who have at least scored 1,000 career runs.

Kohli’s career average is 52.01.

Furthermore, Rizwan became the first player to score ten 50+ scores in T20Is in a calendar year. His tally this year includes a century as well.

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