Babar Azam, Pakistan’s captain, set a slew of records in the third and final one-day international against England, which took place at Birmingham’s Edgbaston Stadium on Tuesday.
As a skipper, the 26-year-old top-ranked batsman produced the largest innings by any Pakistani in an ODI. Shoaib Malik previously held the record for the longest individual innings by a Pakistani skipper in one-day internationals. In 2008, Malik scored 125 runs against India at the National Stadium in Karachi.
Babar Azam added to his list of accomplishments by becoming the first Pakistani skipper to score a century in England in 38 years. [Prime Minister] Imran Khan had struck a century in Leeds in 1983 before Azam.
Azam performed admirably in Tuesday’s day-night match, scoring a record-breaking 158 runs.
