Babar Azam claims another T20 record

Pakistan’s white-ball skipper Babar Azam bagged another record in T20I cricket during the final game of the five-match T20I series against New Zealand at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, on Saturday.

Babar, 29, has been creating records ever since his debut for the Green Shirts and bagged one more as he became the player to have scored the most fours in the shorter format.

Babar scored his 408th four during the match against New Zealand in his 108th innings, which took him above Ireland’s Paul Stirling who hit 407 fours in 136 innings.

Babar is also closing on one of the records of Virat Kohli for scoring the most runs in T20I cricket.

Babar currently has 3,804 runs in T20I cricket and is only behind Kohli (4,037) and Rohit Sharma (3,974) on the list of most runs in the shortest format of the game.

The prolific Pakistan batter only needs 233 runs to equal Kohli’s tally of runs in T20I cricket.

Most fours in T20I cricket

409 — Babar Azam in 108 innings

407 — Paul Stirling in 136 innings

361 — Virat Kohli in 109 innings

359 — Rohit Sharma in 143 innings

320 — David Warner in 103 innings