KARACHI: Pakistan’s all-format captain Babar Azam has surpassed Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar in the all-time International Cricket Council (ICC) one-day international (ODI) batting ratings.
Babar, who achieved his career-highest ODI batting ratings of 891 at the conclusion of the home series against Australia, surpassed Tendulkar to claim the 15th position in the list.
Babar Azam has moved up to 15th position in the ICC All-Time ODI Batting Rankings #Cricket pic.twitter.com/2T6HZTZhT4
— Saj Sadiq (@SajSadiqCricket) April 6, 2022
Babar had an outstanding campaign against Australia after a miserable PSL campaign. He scored 390 runs at an average of 78, including a record-breaking 196 and two half-centuries in five innings.
Babar led from the front in the ODI’s, scoring back to back centuries in a winning cause and bagged two consecutive Player of the Match and Player of the Series award for his 276 runs at an average of 138, including two centuries and one half-century.
The skipper of the Pakistan team was also the top run-getter in the one-off T20 match, where he scored 66 off 46 balls. Earning points after the sensational series, Azam took his rating points to 891, the 15th best ranking for a batter in the history of ICC ODI ranking.
Led by the West Indian legend Sir Vivian Richards, the list also comprises two Pakistani batters Zaheer Abbas, who is second in the list and Javed Miandad, who is ranked seventh with 910 rating points. India’s top batter Virat Kohli is in the sixth place with a rating points of 911.
Babar Azam has been Pakistan’s most consistent player across all formats of the game. In the year 2019, he bagged 1092 runs in 20 innings, followed by 221 runs in the year 2020 in just three ODIs played.
He played six innings in 2021 and smashed 405 runs. In the current year, that is 2022, he has played three innings so far and managed to score 276 runs off it.
