{"id":541503,"date":"2025-11-01T06:47:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/541503\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T06:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:47:20","slug":"on-top-of-the-world-babar-azam-breaks-rohit-sharmas-big-t20-record-pakistan-crush-south-africa-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/541503\/","title":{"rendered":"On top of the world! Babar Azam breaks Rohit Sharma&#8217;s big T20 record; Pakistan crush South Africa | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/babar-azam.jpg\" alt=\"On top of the world! Babar Azam breaks Rohit Sharma's big T20 record; Pakistan crush South Africa\" title=\"File Pic: Babar Azam and Rohit Sharma\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>File Pic: Babar Azam and Rohit Sharma Pakistan\u2019s premier batter Babar Azam etched his name into cricket\u2019s record books on Friday, surpassing Rohit Sharma to become the highest run-scorer in men\u2019s T20 internationals, as Pakistan crushed South Africa by nine wickets to level the three-match series 1-1.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@toisports\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">SUBSCRIBE NOW!<\/a>Babar, recalled for his first T20 series in nearly a year, needed just nine runs to go past Rohit\u2019s tally of 4,231 runs. The former Pakistan captain reached the milestone in his typically composed fashion \u2014 with a gentle single driven off spinner Donovan Ferreira to long-off \u2014 before finishing unbeaten on 11. He now has 4,234 runs in 130 matches, including 36 fifties and three centuries, at a strike rate of 129.<\/p>\n<p>India vs Australia: Virat Kohli &amp; Rohit Sharma rewrite history at SCG<\/p>\n<p>The record comes as a moment of redemption for the 31-year-old, who had missed the chance to break it in the first match after falling for a two-ball duck. His return among runs \u2014 and to Pakistan\u2019s T20 setup \u2014 was timely, following criticism over his exclusion from the Asia Cup, where Pakistan struggled against India.<\/p>\n<p>Poll<\/p>\n<p>Who do you think is the best T20 batter of all time?<\/p>\n<p>Most runs in T20Is<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4234 &#8211; Babar Azam<\/li>\n<li>4231 &#8211; Rohit Sharma<\/li>\n<li>4188 &#8211; Virat Kohli<\/li>\n<li>3869 &#8211; Jos Buttler<\/li>\n<li>3710 &#8211; Paul Stirling<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While Babar\u2019s milestone dominated headlines, it was Saim Ayub\u2019s explosive unbeaten 71 off 38 balls that sealed Pakistan\u2019s emphatic win. The left-hander, who endured a nightmare Asia Cup with four ducks, rediscovered his touch in spectacular style \u2014 smashing five sixes and six fours as Pakistan chased down 111 in just 13.1 overs.\u201cSaim is someone who can play for the next 10 years and become the player we all want him to be,\u201d captain Salman Ali Agha said after the game. \u201cWe bowled really well up front, and when you bowl that well you\u2019re always going to win the game.\u201dEarlier, Pakistan\u2019s bowlers had dismantled South Africa for 110, with Salman Mirza (3-14) and Faheem Ashraf (4-23) sharing seven wickets.South Africa\u2019s stand-in captain Donovan Ferreira admitted his team was outplayed.\u201cThere isn\u2019t much time to reflect,\u201d Ferreira said. \u201cThe wicket got a lot better with the dew settling. You just have to move on.\u201dThe third and deciding T20 will be played on Saturday, with the series tantalisingly poised \u2014 and Babar Azam standing tall as T20 cricket\u2019s new run king.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File Pic: Babar Azam and Rohit Sharma Pakistan\u2019s premier batter Babar Azam etched his name into cricket\u2019s record&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[174367,1406,174368,6166,139656,174369,174370,174372,174373,79,174371,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-541503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-babar-azam-t20-record","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-highest-run-scorer-in-t20","11":"tag-pakistan-cricket-board","12":"tag-pakistan-cricket-news","13":"tag-pakistan-vs-south-africa-t20","14":"tag-rohit-sharma-t20-runs","15":"tag-saim-ayub-performance","16":"tag-south-africa-national-cricket-team","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-t20-series-pakistan-south-africa","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115473105142286110","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}