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Pakistan’s Babar Azam plays a shot during the ODI cricket match against South Africa at the Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad, November 6, 2025. \u2014 AFP\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
Pakistan batter Babar Azam on Saturday achieved a major milestone, reaching the 15,000-run mark in international cricket.<\/p>\n
Babar achieved the milestone during the third ODI and final ODI of the three-match series against South Africa, underway here at the Iqbal Stadium, when he worked Bjorn Fortuin for a single towards the wide mid-on to score his 23rd run.<\/p>\n
The single took his runs tally in international cricket to 15,000, and the 31-year-old, as a result, became just the fifth Pakistani to amass the milestone, joining the likes of Inzamam-ul-Haq, Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf and Javed Miandad.<\/p>\n
Notably, former captain Inzamam leads the list of most international runs by Pakistan batters with 20,541 in 547 innings, followed by Younis with 17,790, Yousuf with 17,134 and Miandad with 16,213.<\/p>\n
Most international runs for Pakistan<\/p>\n
Inzamam-ul-Haq \u2013 20,541 runs in 547 innings<\/p>\n
Younis Khan \u2013 17,790 runs in 491 innings<\/p>\n
Mohammad Yousuf \u2013 17,134 runs in 426 innings<\/p>\n
Javed Miandad \u2013 16,213 in 407 innings<\/p>\n
Babar Azam \u2013 15,004 runs in 370 innings<\/p>\n
Notably, Babar could not convert his decent start with the bat into a big knock and had an agonising end to his stay at the crease as he was run out after scoring 27 off 32 deliveries, comprising five boundaries.<\/p>\n
His dismissal came at a crucial juncture as Pakistan were recovering from a dismal start, which saw left-handed opener Fakhar Zaman getting dismissed for a second consecutive duck.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, when this story was filed, the Green Shirts were 73\/2 in 13 overs, with opener Saim Ayub and wicketkeeper batter Mohammad Rizwan, unbeaten on 39 and five, respectively.<\/p>\n
The home side needed 71 runs in 37 overs with eight wickets in hand to clinch the three-match ODI series against South Africa 2-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pakistan’s Babar Azam plays a shot during the ODI cricket match against South Africa at the Iqbal Stadium…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-251959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}