{"id":52953,"date":"2025-08-08T15:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/52953\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:25:08","slug":"babar-azam-on-brink-of-breaking-multiple-odi-records-against-west-indies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/52953\/","title":{"rendered":"Babar Azam on brink of breaking multiple ODI records against West Indies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <a style=\"color:black; text-decoration: none; font-size:13px !important\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaDgqvHGzzKbrfJ9LS2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n                                 JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL<br \/>\n                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Pakistan captain Babar Azam is on the verge of achieving two major milestones in One-Day International (ODI) cricket as his side prepares to face the West Indies in the first match of the three-game series on Friday at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old needs just one more century to equal the long-standing record of legendary opener Saeed Anwar for the most ODI hundreds by a Pakistani batter.<\/p>\n<p>Anwar scored 20 centuries in 247 matches and 244 innings. Babar, who has 19 centuries from only 131 matches and 128 innings, could equal the former opener in record time if he reaches three figures in the upcoming matches.<\/p>\n<p>Most ODI centuries by Pakistan batters:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tSaeed Anwar \u2013 20 centuries in 247 matches&#13;<br \/>\n\tBabar Azam \u2013 19* centuries in 131 matches&#13;<br \/>\n\tMohammad Yousuf \u2013 15 centuries in 288 matches&#13;<br \/>\n\tFakhar Zaman \u2013 11 centuries in 86 matches&#13;<br \/>\n\tMohammad Hafeez \u2013 11 centuries in 218 matches&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Babar is also close to becoming the second-fastest player in ODI history to score 20 centuries. Currently, he has 19 hundreds in 128 innings, just behind India\u2019s Virat Kohli, who reached 20 centuries in 133 innings. If Babar achieves the feat in his next four innings, he will overtake Kohli on the list, with only South Africa\u2019s Hashim Amla ahead, who got there in just 108 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Fastest players to 20 ODI centuries:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tHashim Amla \u2013 108 innings&#13;<br \/>\n\tVirat Kohli \u2013 133 innings&#13;<br \/>\n\tDavid Warner \u2013 142 innings&#13;<br \/>\n\tQuinton de Kock \u2013 150 innings&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Former Pakistan captain Babar Azam is on the verge of achieving two major milestones&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[29233,29239,29240,29243,1721,29238,29242,29237,29235,29241,29234,29236,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-52953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-babar-azam","9":"tag-babar-azam-odi-records","10":"tag-babar-azam-vs-saeed-anwar","11":"tag-babar-azam-west-in","12":"tag-cricket","13":"tag-fakhar-zaman","14":"tag-fastest-to-20-odi-centuries","15":"tag-mohammad-yousuf","16":"tag-odi-series","17":"tag-pakistan-cricket-records","18":"tag-pakvwi","19":"tag-saeed-anwar","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52953","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=52953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}