Babar Azam, a star batsman for Pakistan, is now the fastest player to score 10,000 T20 runs in the fewest games. He beat Chris Gayle’s record of 285 innings. It was set by the West Indies player, by hitting the 100th run in 271 innings.
Babar Azam sets another T201 record in PSL 9
When Babar Azam played for Peshawar Zalmi against Karachi Kings in the Pakistan Super League (PSL), he won the title. He scored 72 runs. Thus, it helped his team set a goal of 155 runs for the Kings.
Second, Indian player Virat Kohli is in third place with 10,000 runs scored in 299 games. David Warner is in second place with 303 innings played. On Wednesday, Babar Azam, the star batter. Also, captain of the Peshawar Zalmi team, became the fastest hitter in T20 history to score 10,000 runs.
West Indian cricketer Chris Gayle held the record for the longest time to hit the milestone, which was 285 innings. The opening batter broke that record in 271 innings. The 10,000th run was scored by Azam today in the sixth match of the ninth season of the Pakistan Super League (PSL), which was between Peshawar Zalmi and Karachi Kings.
In T20 cricket, the right-hander has played for 19 teams and scored 3,698 runs for his country and 2,398 for the Kings. So, he’s also the only player in the PSL to have scored more than 3,000 runs, and he’s only the 13th player in the history of the shortest version to score 10,000 runs. With 14,562 runs, Gayle is at the top of the list. So, Shoaib Malik of Pakistan is in second place with 13,159 runs.
