Mohammad Babar Azam

Born on 15th October 1994, Babar Azam is a Pakistani cricketer who plays as an opener in Tests, ODIs and T20I formats for Pakistan. Babar made his ODI debut for Pakistan in 2015 against Zimbabwe and his T20I debut came one year later in 2016 against England. Babar is the current captain of the Pakistan National Cricket Team in the limited-overs cricket and also captains the Central Punjab team in domestic cricket. In Pakistan Super League, Babar plays for Peshawar Zalmi.

Some of his major career achievements:

• Babar is the only player who is present in the top five ICC rankings across all formats.
• The first player to score a fifty in his Test debut in 2016 during a day/night Test match
• Leading runs-scorer for Pakistan in 2016 in both ODIs and T20Is with 872 and 352 runs respectively
• After his three consecutive ODI centuries against West Indies in 2016, Babar broke the record for most runs (360) in three-match ODI series and became the only batsman to score 350+ runs in a three-match ODI series.
• In 2017, Babar entered into the top 10 ICC ODI batsmen's ranking for the first time ever.
• Named in the 2017 Pakistan's ODI Player of the year and listed in ICC World ODI XI for the first time ever in 2017
• Became the joint-fastest batsman to smash 1,000 runs in ODIs in the third ODI against Australia in 2017
• Leading run-scorer for Pakistan in Test (2018 & 2019), ODI (2016, 2017 & 2019) and T20I (2019).