T20 World Cup 2024: Babar Azam Shattered Virat Kohli's Record, But Still Faced Backlash!
Babar Azam has broken Virat Kohli's world record by scoring 44 runs in 43 balls against America. He has now become the highest run scorer in T20 International. In this match, Babar also made another record apart from this big record. This is considered to be the worst record as a batsman in the T20 World Cup. After which Babar was trolled a lot.
Virat Kohli and Babar Azam
Babar Azam has been compared to Virat Kohli many times. Like Virat Kohli, he has also made many records so far. He played an innings of 44 runs off 43 balls in the opening match of T20 World Cup Pakistan. With this, he has surpassed Virat Kohli in terms of runs in T20 International and has become the highest run scorer in T20. Babar has now scored a total of 4067 runs in 113 innings, while Virat Kohli has scored 4038 runs in 110 innings. Another new record was added to his name in the match against America, but he had to face a lot of humiliation due to this.
Babar Azam's shameful record
Babar Azam may have broken Virat Kohli's world record in T20 International, but there is also a flaw in his record. Babar has been trolled many times for his strike rate. He crossed the limit against America. Against an inexperienced bowling attack like America, he scored only 4 runs off 14 balls in the powerplay. Now with this, he has become the slowest batsman in an innings during the powerplay in T20 World Cup history. This shameful record was earlier in the name of Sri Lanka's Tillakaratne Dilshan, who scored 12 runs off 11 balls in the powerplay against the Netherlands in the 2014 T20 World Cup.
Babar Azam has surpassed Virat Kohli for the most runs in T20Is. pic.twitter.com/pGM4UJbmej
— CricTracker (@Cricketracker) June 7, 2024
Babar batted at a strike rate of 86.91
This bad record of Babar Azam is not just of one innings. He is also the slowest batsman ever in the powerplay in T20 World Cup history. Babar has batted at a strike rate of just 86.91 in 14 innings in the T20 World Cup. In this innings, he has scored 166 runs in a total of 191 balls during the powerplay. Whereas Babar's strike rate in T20 career is 129.
If Babar Azam scores 50+ with a strike rate over 200:
— ICC Asia Cricket (@ICCAsiaCricket) June 7, 2024
~ I will delete my Twitter account for forever. 💯🥶#BabarAzam #PakistanCricket #ViratKohli #T20WorldCup pic.twitter.com/lccDmFiTQj
Babar Azam's slow batting the reason for the defeat?
Pakistani fans are feeling embarrassed after the defeat to America. Babar Azam's slow batting was also a big reason. He scored only 44 runs at a strike rate of 102. This put pressure on the later batsmen and they kept getting out in an attempt to score runs quickly. Pakistan's team could not score big and America first tied the match and then won the match in the super over.