Babar Azam broke a record of Virat Kohli. (Photo-Muhammad Sameer Ali/Getty Images)
Pakistan vs South Africa, 3rd T20I Match: On the basis of the brilliant fifty of Pakistan’s legendary batsman Babar Azam, Pakistan has captured the series of 3 T20I matches by 2-1. In the last match, the host team defeated South Africa by 4 wickets. In this match, Babar Azam played a brilliant inning of 68 runs. During this, he has broken a record of Team India’s legendary batsman Virat Kohli. Earlier he had broken a record of Rohit Sharma.
Babar Azam hits fifty
Pakistan’s legendary batsman chasing the target of 140 runs in the third T20I match Babar Azam Hit a brilliant fifty. He scored 68 runs in 47 balls with the help of 9 fours and gave victory to Pakistan with 6 balls remaining. With this, he has left Virat Kohli behind in terms of scoring most 50 plus runs in T20I.
Virat Kohli has scored 50 plus runs 39 times in 125 T20I matches. Now Babar Azam has gone ahead of him. Babar achieved this feat in 131 matches. Earlier, this veteran batsman of Pakistan had left Rohit Sharma behind in terms of scoring most runs in T20I. Rohit Sharma has scored 4231 runs in 159 matches, while Babar Azam has scored 4302 runs in 131 matches at an average of 39.83. Due to his brilliant innings in the third match, Pakistan captured the series.
Pakistan won the series
Batting first in the last T20I match, South Africa scored 139 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs. For the visiting team, Corbin Bosch scored unbeaten 30 runs in 23 balls with the help of 2 fours. Captain Donovan Ferreira scored 29 runs in 14 balls with the help of 1 four and 3 sixes. Dewald Brevis played an innings of 21 runs in 22 balls with the help of 2 sixes. Apart from this, no batsman could stay on the crease for long.
from pakistan Shaheen Shah Afridi Took maximum 3 wickets. Faheem Ashraf and Usman Tariq got 2-2 wickets. Salman Mirza and Mohammad Nawaz took 1-1 wicket. Pakistan achieved this target by losing 6 wickets with 6 balls remaining. Apart from Babar Azam, captain Salman Aga played an inning of 33 runs in 26 balls with the help of 2 fours. Sahibzada Farhan scored 19 runs. The first T20I match was won by South Africa. After that, Pakistan won both the matches and captured the series.