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Babar Azam broke Virat Kohli's record. (Photo- PTI)

Babar Azam, Pakistan VS Australia: The last match of the 3-match T20 series between Pakistan and Australia was played at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore. In this match, Pakistan's star batsman Babar Azam managed to play a big innings. Babar, who was struggling with continuous form and poor strike rate, managed to score a half-century in this match. But his strike rate remained under question this time too. However, with this innings he broke a big record of Virat Kohli.

Babar Azam broke Virat Kohli's record

Pakistan, batting first in this match, scored 207 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs, which also included Babar Azam's unbeaten innings. Babar scored 50 runs in 36 balls, which included 3 fours and 1 six. But he scored these runs at a strike rate of 138.88, which is also the third slowest half-century among the 200+ runs scored by the team in a T20I match. Earlier, in the first two matches of the series, Babar was able to score only 2 and 24 runs, but he regained his form in the third match.

This was the 39th half-century of Babar's T20I career, leaving him behind India's Virat Kohli. Babar has now become the batsman with the most number of half-centuries in T20I cricket. Earlier he was jointly at first position with Virat Kohli. Virat had scored 38 fifties in 125 matches, while Babar had scored 39 fifties in 139 matches. In this list, Rohit Sharma (32 fifties) is at third place, Mohammad Rizwan is at fourth place with 30 fifties and David Warner is at fifth place with 28 fifties.

Strong innings of Sam Ayub-Shadab Khan

In this match, Sam Ayub and Shadab Khan also played strong innings for Pakistan. Sam Ayub scored 56 runs in 37 balls. At the same time, Shadab Khan scored 46 runs in 19 balls, which included 2 fours and 5 sixes. Due to which Pakistan team was successful in making a big score. Let us tell you, Pakistan has already captured this series. Won both the initial matches easily.