KARACHI: Peshawar Zalmi captain Babar Azam equaled three major Pakistan Super League (PSL) records with a mammoth century against Islamabad United in the qualifiers of the ongoing 11th edition at the National Bank Stadium on Tuesday.
Babur scored 103 off 59 balls with 12 fours and 4 sixes to help the table-toppers amass a mammoth total of 221/7 in their 20 overs.
His 57-ball century in the ongoing tournament is his second in the current edition, making him the second batsman in marquee league history to score two centuries in a single season, joining Usman Khan, who registered the record in PSL 9 with Multan Sultans.
Overall, it was Babar’s fourth century in the PSL and helped him draw level with Hyderabad Kingsman Usman’s four-centuries in the league stage of the ongoing eight-team competition against Multan Sultans, his most recent.
Most hundreds in PSL
- Usman Khan – Four in 35 innings
- Babar Assam – Four in 110 innings
- Kamran Akmal – Three in 74 innings
- Riley Rossow – Three in 98 innings
- Faqar Zaman – Three in 105 innings
Also, Babar’s knock of 103 helped him equal Lahore Qalandars’ Faqar Zaman’s long-standing record for most runs in a single edition of the PSL.
The left-arm opener scored 588 runs in 13 innings for Qlanders in the PSL seventh season with a century and 7 half-centuries.
Babar Azam, however, conceded 10 innings to score the most runs this season, with a staggering average of 98.00 and a strike rate of 146.63, scoring two centuries and three fifties.
Most runs in a PSL season