Babar Azam performs 1,000 T20 score for the second year in a row

 

Pakistani captain Babar Azam (C) plays a shot as Zimbabwe's Sean Williams (bottom) watches during the Twenty20 first cricket match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi on November 7, 2020.

Pakistan's white-ball captain Babar Azam achieved another feat on Saturday after becoming the first Pakistani to score 1,000 consecutive points in a calendar year.

The 26-year-old scored 82 wins over Zimbabwe in Rawalpindi to complete 1,000 T20 races in calendar year 2020.

Azam also scored 1,607 races last year to end 2019 as the T20's top race scorer, making him the first Pakistani to achieve back-to-back T20 1000-run feats in two consecutive years.

Former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik had, however, scored 1,000 points in T20 three times, but was unable to achieve the feat consecutively.

Malik hit four digits in T20 in 2014 (1030), 2016 (1082) and 2019 (1010).

Pakistanis Ahmed Shahzad (1,138 in 2012), Umar Akmal (1,386 in 2016) and Imran Nazir (1,036 in 2012) have achieved this feat once.

Babar is currently T20's top race scorer in 2020 with 1,063 races in 26 innings. He is followed by India’s KL Rahul who scored 993 points in 21 innings.