KARACHI: Pakistan’s captain Babar Azam on Tuesday another feather to his cap when he became the fastest Asian to register 4,000 one-day international (ODI) runs.
The world’s No.1 batter reached this milestone during first ODI against Australia in Lahore when he scored the 15th run of his inning. Overall, Babar Azam is the 15th player from Pakistan to score 4,000 runs in ODIs.
He took 82 innings to reach the 4,000 ODI runs mark, only one more than Hashim Amla — who remains the fastest by reaching the landmark in 81 innings.
Hashim Amla set the world record for the fastest 4000 ODI runs on 8 December 2013. Then he broke the record of West Indies’ Vivian Richardson (88 innings). Amla achieved this feat against Team India in the Durban ODI by scoring 100 runs in 117 balls.
He is also the first-ever Pakistani to complete 4,000 ODI runs in less than 100 innings. The fastest from Pakistan, before Babar, (now the second-fastest) was Mohammad Yousuf who took 110 innings to reach this milestone.
The Pakistani cricketer took only 14 innings to turn jump from 3,000s to 4,000s runs. The only player who took fewer innings than Babar to jump from 3K to 4K runs was David Warner, in 12 innings.
