Pakistan’s Babar Azam equals Misbah-ul-Haq’s World Cup record: Stats

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Pakistan's Babar Azam equals Misbah-ul-Haq's World Cup record: Stats
On Friday in Chennai, Babar Azam hit a 65-ball 50 against South Africa in match number 26 of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023.
Babar, who came in early after Abdullah Shafique was dismissed, went on to share a crucial 48-run stand for the third wicket with Mohammad Rizwan.
Following his fifty, Babar equaled Misbah-ul-Haq’s record. We decipher the statistics.

 

Pakistan has the joint-second-highest 50-plus score in ODI World Cup history.
Babar’s fifty-plus score was the seventh in ODI World Cup history. His total now stands at one hundred and sixties.
Babar has now tied former captain Misbah-ul-Haq (7) for the joint-second-highest fifty-plus scores for Pakistan (7 each).
In terms of fifty-plus scores, Pakistan’s Javed Miandad leads the way (9).
Babar was tied for sixth place with Aamer Sohail and Saeed Anwar (6 each).

Babar’s 50th 50-plus score in ODIs
Babar celebrated his 50th ODI score of 50 or more, joining an exclusive club.
Babar became Pakistan’s eighth batter to score 50 or more ODI runs. Inzaman-ul-Haq (93), Mohammad Yousuf (77), Saeed Anwar (63), Javed Miandad (58), Younis Khan (55), Shoaib Malik (53) and Saleem Malik (52) are among those on the list.
Babar has 31 50s and 19 tons.

Babar becomes Pakistan’s fifth-highest scorer in the World Cup.
Babar has 681 runs at 52.38 in 14 ICC World Cup matches. He has surpassed former captain Imran Khan (666 runs) to become Pakistan’s fifth-highest ODI World Cup scorer.
Only Miandad (1,083), Anwar (915), Inzamam-ul-Haq (717), and Ramiz Raja (700) are ahead of Babar.
Babar has three fifties in the ongoing World Cup, scoring 207 runs at 34.50.

Numbers that are important to Babar
Babar has 5,616 ODI runs at a time of 56.72 seconds. In 2023, Babar scored 952 runs at an average of 47.60 from 22 ODI matches. Babar has 573 runs against SA, averaging 63.66 (100s: 1, 50s: 4).

 

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