Babar Azam is one of the best batters in Pakistan’s cricket team history, if not the best. The right-handed batter scores runs for fun and currently sits at the top of the rankings in both ODI and T20I cricket. In fact, he is the only cricketer in world cricket at the moment who is in the top-three list in all three formats of the game. With 879 rating points to his name, he is the third best Test batter at the moment as well.
The 27-year-old is the captain of Pakistan’s men’s cricket team in all three formats of the game at present and is currently in Netherlands with the team, where they are scheduled to take on the Dutch side in three-match ODI series, which starts from August 16.
After the conclusion of the Netherlands assignment, the team will travel to the United Arab Emirates to take part in the 2022 Asia Cup T20 tournament. Pakistan is clubbed with arch-rivals India in Group A and will open their campaign against the Rohit Sharma-led side on August 28 in Dubai.
Ahead of the upcoming congested cricket season, where apart from playing in Asia Cup T20 and T20 World Cup, Men in Green will also host England in seven-match T20I series, Pakistan on Sunday (August 14), on the occasion of country’s 75th Independence Day conferred Babar with Sitara-e-Pakistan, while women’s skipper Bismah Maroof has been bestowed with Tamgha-e-Pakistan.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) took to Twitter to wish its players, saying: “PCB CONGRATULATES Masood Jan (blind cricketer), Pakistan men’s team captain Babar Azam and Pakistan women’s team captain Bismah Maroof at being conferred with civil awards on Pakistan’s 75th anniversary.”
Babar is in the form of his life these days, and the fans back in Pakistan will hope the star batter will continue his purple patch in the upcoming matches as well. He has been the Men in Green’s top performer in international cricket for years now, and if the team wants to win the upcoming big multi-nation tournaments, then he has to step up and lead by example.
