By Admin 
There was a time when Virat Kohli, Joe Root, Kane Williamson and Steve Smith were called Fab-4. Meanwhile, Babar Azam’s name emerged from Pakistan and from here, the term of ‘Fab-5’ was used instead of ‘Fab-4’. India and Pakistani cricket fans have often compared Virat and Babur, but Babar Azam has proved to be a laggard in the last about 2 years. He has not been able to score a century in the last 72 innings of international cricket.
Babar Azam is the only cricketer who completed 5,000 ODI runs in less than 100 innings. At the same time, he is jointly present in the first place with Hashim Amla in terms of scoring the fastest 6 thousand runs in ODI matches. Actually, Babar Azam’s ODI career caught backseat only after completing 5,000 runs.
Drought of century from 72 innings
Babar Azam’s poor form has been in discussion for several months. Babar Azam’s century drought in international cricket has been running for 72 innings. His last century came against Nepal in 2023. If we look at the figures from the year 2024 till now, Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan of Pakistan are the players of 2 full ICC members whose strike rate has been below 80. The result of this poor performance is that the captaincy of the Pak team has been taken away from Babar Azam in all three formats and they have also been dropped from the T20 team.
On the other hand, Virat Kohli has retired from Test and T20 format. Virat has not played any international cricket match after the final of the Champions Trophy on 9 March, yet he remains the number-4 batsman in the ODI. At the same time, Babar Azam remained the number-1 batsman till some time ago, but now his ranking is constantly falling.
When Babar Azam scored a century against Nepal, his ODI average was 59.48. But after that, their average has fallen to 54.23 within just 29 innings.
Will never compare with Virat
Since Virat is now active in ODI matches now, then Virat is far ahead if compared to Babar Azam. Actually, Virat’s ODI career started catching amazing speed after 100 innings. At the same time, after 100 innings, Babur’s ODI career falls. For 131 ODI innings, both Babur and Virat had scored 19-19 centuries, but Virat was far ahead of them in playing big innings.
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