India, Nov. 2 -- Former captain and Pakistan batting stalwart Babar Azam became the highest run-getter in T20 Internationals to leave behind Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. Babar achieved the feat while scoring 11 from 18 balls in the second T20Is against South Africa in Lahore on Friday night. But a close look at the statistics of the top five T20 run getters also gives a clear picture of why Babar was sidelined from the Pakistan T20 side since December 2024 before he was surprisingly recalled for the South Africa series.

The statistics shows that Babar has now scored 4234 runs in 123 matches at an average of 39.57 but the telling stats are his strike and number of sixes hit compared to the others in the list. Babar has the lowest strike ...