In the second T20 played at Gaddafi Stadium, Pakistan defeated South Africa by 9 wickets and leveled the series 1-1. The third T20 will be decisive. In the second match, Babar Azam scored 11 unbeaten runs, in this short innings he broke the world record of Rohit Sharma. He has become the highest run scorer in T20 International cricket.

Talking about the match, the entire South African team was bundled out for 110 runs while batting first. Faheem Ashraf took maximum 4 wickets and Salman Mirza took 3 wickets, Naseem Shah took 2 wickets. South Africa’s top order and middle order batsmen all flopped. Quinton de Kock 7, Reza Hendricks 0, Tony De Jorji 7, Matthew Britzke was out after scoring 5 runs, captain Donoval Ferreira could also score only 15 runs.

Babar Azam broke Rohit Sharma’s world record

Chasing the target, Sahibzada Farhan and Sam Ayub made a partnership of 54 runs for the first wicket, Farhan was out after scoring 28 runs in the 7th over. After this Babar Azam came, however Sam Ayub present at the other end then started an explosive innings and gave the team victory in the 14th over. Ayub scored unbeaten 71 runs in 38 balls with the help of 5 sixes and 6 fours, Babar remained unbeaten after playing 18 balls and scoring 11 runs.

In terms of scoring most runs in T20, Babar Azam has left Rohit Sharma behind and has come first in the list. Rohit has scored 4231 runs in T20, he has retired from this format. Babar Azam has now scored 4234 runs in 123 innings of 130 matches.

Top-5 batsmen who scored most runs in T20 International

• Babar Azam (Pakistan)- 4234
• Rohit Sharma (India)- 4231
• Virat Kohli (India)- 4188
• Jos Buttler (England)- 3869
• Paul Stirling (Ireland)- 3710

South Africa won the first T20 of the 3-match series, in which Babar Azam was out on zero. Pakistan won the second match, now the third match of the series will be the deciding match of the series. The third T20 will be played today at Gaddafi Stadium. According to Indian time, it will start at 8:30 pm.