Babar Azam set another record

JOHANNESBURG: National cricket team captain Babar Azam has become the second fastest cricketer to score 6,000 runs in T20 cricket. According to media reports, Babar Azam has scored 1744 runs at an average of 47 in T20 international cricket. I have 16 half-centuries. West Indies legend Chris Gayle completed 6,000 in 162 matches. Pakistan beat South Africa in the first T20 match after a thrilling match thanks to the brilliant performance of Mohammad Rizwan. Defeated to take a 1-0 lead in the series. 

Batting first, South Africa scored 188 runs for the loss of six wickets in the allotted 20 overs. Pakistan reached the target one ball earlier and won the match by 4 wickets. The batsman, who scored a half-century, along with Faheem Ashraf, took the team to the brink of victory, played an unbeaten innings of 74 runs and was declared man of the match. Before the series played in Johannesburg. In the T20 match, South Africa won the toss and elected to bat first. When the openers started the innings, they gave South Africa a 31-run lead, after which Mohammad Nawaz moved Janman Milan, who scored 24 runs. Wehan Lobe, who played the first match, failed to make much of an impression and became the wicket of Hassan Ali, who scored four runs. After losing two wickets, Eden Mercram and captain Henry Klaassen supported the team and formed a 62-run partnership. Markram scored 51 runs with the help of 8 fours and a six after which Nawaz won the toss and elected to bat. With the help of Rizwan, who was behind the cuts, he overcame them. Klaassen continued to bat aggressively and scored an excellent half-century as well as a 61-run partnership with Pete van Baljun, who hit four sixes and two fours off 28 balls. On one occasion, South Africa scored 159 runs for the loss of 3 wickets in 16 overs and it seemed that they would easily manage to score more than 200 runs but in the end In the overs, the Pakistani bowlers bowled well and mixed with South Africa's Arman Khak. In the last over of the innings, thanks to sixes and fours, the South African team managed to score 188 runs for the loss of 6 wickets. Hassan Ali was the most successful bowler with two wickets. In pursuit of the target, openers Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan gave Pakistan a 41-run lead after which the Pakistan captain's 14-run innings came to an end. Mohammad Rizwan put on a 45-run partnership but Fakhr Zaman, who piled up runs in the ODI series, finished 10th in the innings. Mohammad Hafeez could not make his 100th match memorable and after scoring only 13 runs, he gave wicket to Tabriz Shamsi while young Haider Ali's innings also came to an end at 14 runs. Mohammad Nawaz returned to the pavilion without scoring a run on the first ball and thus the Pakistan team lost the fifth wicket. Despite being out of half the team, Rizwan did not give up and scored a half century. The batsman along with Faheem Ashraf took the team to the threshold of victory. Both the players batted aggressively in the face of increasing run rate and formed a brilliant partnership of 48 runs. When Fahim Ashraf scored 30 runs off 14 balls, he became the wicket of Lizad Williams. Despite the dismissal of Fahim Ashraf, the Pakistan team reached the target one ball earlier and won the match by 4 wickets. Along with the victory, the national team also took a 1-0 lead in the series.