Babar Azam’s fifth half-century this season has made the Pakistan maestro the quickest participant to the landmark of 9000 Twenty20 runs.
Babar achieved the feat in his 245th sport on Thursday, breaking Chris Gayle’s document of 249 video games as his Peshawar Zalmi facet made a surprising comeback to remove Islamabad United from the Pakistan Super League playoffs by 12 runs.
Peshawar will subsequent tackle defending champions, the Lahore Qalandars, within the second elimination sport on Friday, with the winner going to the rescheduled ultimate towards Multan Sultans on Saturday.
Islamabad have been crushing the chase at 1-128 after 14 overs on the again of a century stand between Sohaib Maqsood (60) and Alex Hales (57) when Peshawar’s unheralded pacers, Salman Irshad (2-18) and Aamer Jamal (2-36), turned the sport on its head.
They restricted Islamabad to 6-171 in reply to Peshawar’s 8-183.
Earlier, Babar’s 64 was rattled off in simply 39 balls however as soon as he was dismissed by Shadab Khan within the thirteenth over, Peshawar misplaced 5 wickets for 46 of their final seven overs.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
