Babar Azam breaks yet another Virat Kohli’s world record in latest T20I rankings

Pakistan captain Babar Azam has once again surpassed India’s former cricket captain Virat Kohli’s records to etch his name in history books for a world record in T20I cricket, a feat he achieved as he continued his dominance at the the top of the charts in ICC T20I rankings.

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According to reports, Babar now owns the record of claiming the top rank in the ICC T20I list for the longest period of time. As of June 29, his tally now stands 1030 days. The previous record was held by Kohli, who had dominated the rankings chart for 1013 days in the last decade.

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Currently, Babar stands atop in white-ball cricket rankings as per the ICC list and is keen to take over the No. 1 spot in Test cricket as well.

Earlier this month, Babar had said, “As a player it’s a dream to become the No. 1 in all formats and, for that, you have to focus and put in hard work. It’s not like if you are the top player in one or two formats, you go easy.”

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“It’s something I am preparing for. It’s going well in white-ball and hopefully, I will be able to do well in Tests too.”

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Meanwhile, the rankings chart that was released by the ICC on Wednesday, witnessed little change in T20I cricket with India’s opening batter Ishan Kishan dropping a spot one place to the seventh position in the list of batters.