Babar Azam became the number one batsman in ODI cricket. I am very proud to be on the list of famous players like Zaheer Abbas, Javed Miandad, and Mohammad Yousuf, Babar Azam

Babar Azam became the number one batsman in ODI cricket. I am very proud to be on the list of famous players like Zaheer Abbas, Javed Miandad, and Mohammad Yousuf, Babar Azam

Babar Azam became the number one batsman in ODI cricket.

Babar Azam became the number one batsman in ODI cricket. According to details, the captain of the national cricket team Babar Azam has ended the ODI series against South Africa in the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Super League as the number one batsman in the world of cricket. In the one-day series against South Africa. Babar Azam, who scored 228 runs in three matches, scored a total of 28 rating points during the series.

Before the start of the series, there was a gap of 20 rating points between India's Virat Kohli and Pakistan's Babar Azam in the International Cricket Council's rankings. Babar Azam played an excellent 103-run innings in the first ODI against the hosts. Day International players topped the rankings but were bowled out for 31 in the second match of the series, losing five points. However, Babar Azam once again in the third and decisive match of the series. Then he showed excellent batting and scored 94 runs and was declared the man of the match.

Thanks to these innings against the host team, they have once again reached the first position in the ODI International Players Rankings. Before Babar Azam, India captain Virat Kohli was the number one batsman in the world. He has been at the same rank since October 2017. At number one in the ODI rankings, Brahman Babar Azam is third in the world rankings for T20 and sixth in Tests.

Apart from him, Virat Kohli is the only batsman in the world who is currently in the top six batsmen in the world rankings of these three formats. Babar Azam is the fourth Pakistani in the history of ODI cricket to receive the award. Earlier, Zaheer Abbas had won the first position in the world rankings after playing an unbeaten inning of 103 runs in the match against New Zealand in the 1983 World Cup, then Javed Miandad scored 103 runs against Sri Lanka in the 1987 World Cup. He had won this award by making.

18 years ago, Mohammad Yousuf scored 60 runs in the home series against South Africa and took the first position in the ICC ODI International Rankings. He is the captain of the national cricket team and the number one batsman in the ICC ODI Players Rankings. Babar Azam says that he is very proud to be included in the list of famous players like Zaheer Abbas, Javed Miandad, and Muhammad Yusuf.

He said that these three cricketers will always be the bright stars of Pakistan cricket. Babar Azam said that now his next goal is to maintain this ranking, he will try to work hard and show unity. Sir Viv Richards held the position from January 1984 to October 1988, while Virat Kohli held the position for 1258 days. He said that he had previously been number one in the World Twenty20 Player Rankings but his main target was Test cricket. You have to be the number one batsman because the real test of any cricketer's ability is Test cricket.

Babar Azam said that he will continue to work hard to achieve this position and will try to maintain the continuity of excellent performance. He said that he wants to enjoy these moments for now as the leadership of the Pakistan cricket team. Eighteen months after taking over, Pakistan has become the only country in Asia to have beaten South Africa on home soil for the second time in an ODI series.

In addition, opener Fakhr Zaman not only won the Man of the Series award for scoring 302 runs in three matches against South Africa, but he is also among the top ten batsmen in the ICC ODI Players Rankings. With 8, 193, and 101 runs in the series, he has risen from 19th to 7th position in the world rankings. On the other hand, national cricket team fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi has also achieved his best position in ODI cricket. The young fast bowler, who took 3 wickets in the last ODI of the series against South Africa, has secured 11th position in the latest world rankings.