SL vs PAK 2022, 1st Test | Internet reacts to Babar Azam rising and shining with century in Galle

07/17/2022

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Two days after receiving a lot of praise for a supportive tweet for Virat Kohli, Babar Azam has made headlines again during Pakistan’s first Test match versus Sri Lanka. On a day where his teammates made little impact with the bat, the Pakistan skipper pulled off a gritty century in Galle.

Babar Azam was at his very best on Day 2 of Pakistan's first Test of the two-match series against Sri Lanka, taking place at the Galle International Stadium. The 27-year-old talismanic batsman played a valiant knock of 244-ball 119 in an innings when 19 was the second best score, came off Mohammad Rizwan's bat. In the process, he pipped Virat Kohli to become the quickest (by innings) to get to 10000 international runs by an Asian. While Babar completed the feat in 228 innings, Kohli took 232 attempts to reach there.

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More importantly, Babar's superb century brought Pakistan back into the contest after they bowled Sri Lanka out for 222 on Day 1. The visitors were left reeling at 112/8 at one point until Babar held the fort and took his side to a respectable total of 218. He was well supported by Hasan Ali (17 off 21 balls) and Naseem Shah (5* off 47 balls) -- their Nos. 10 and 11. In fact, Naseem and Babar forged a 70-run stand for the last wicket.

At stumps on Day 2, Sri Lanka reached 36/1 in the second innings, leading by 40 runs. They lost their skipper Dimuth Karunaratne, who was pinned leg before by Mohammad Nawaz in the penultimate over of the day after scoring 16.

Just wow!

Century for KING BABAR AZAM .. What an Inning in such a difficult conditions 👑👑 🐐
— Naͥveͣeͫd Afridian (@poetnaveedtalib)

Brilliant

On a tough Spinning Track he played brilliantly

King 👑 For a Reason Babar Azam with Another 💯
— Rab Nawaz 🇵🇰 (@RN31888)

Century +1

کپتان کا 100

King "Babar Azan"
— M.J.Waqas ch (@MJWaqasch1)

Another one

Babar Azam Test Century:

✨ 1st in Sri Lanka.

✨ 2nd as Captain.

✨ 3rd vs Sri Lanka.

✨ 4th in 1st innings.

✨ 5th on the Sunday.

✨ 6th in WTC history.

✨ 7th of his Test Career.
— Team Babar Azam (@Team_BabarAzam)

Record-breaking

Fastest Asian batsman to 10,000 International Runs:

🇵🇰 𝟮𝟮𝟴 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝘀 - 𝗕𝗮𝗯𝗮𝗿 𝗔𝘇𝗮𝗺 👑

🇮🇳 232 inns - Virat Kohli

Another day of Babar Azam leaving Virat Kohli behind him in numbers.
— Team Babar Azam (@Team_BabarAzam)

The moment

So I'm waiting for this moment 😭🥺❤️
— Irha ✨ (@fan___PCT)

One and only

The Fab One.
— 𝓢𝓮𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓱 🇵🇰 (@itsmeSehrish)

10K

Babar Azam in international cricket

Innings - 228

Runs - 10000

Average - 51.02

Fifties - 66

Hundreds - 24

Fours - 1019

Sixes - 99

- He becomes the fastest Pakistani player & overall 5th fastest to score 10K international runs. Living legend!
— Adnan Chaudhary (DANI😇) (@itsdani04)

Onto to the next target

Babar Azam completes 𝟏𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 International Runs in 𝟐𝟐𝟖 innings at an average of 𝟓𝟏.𝟎𝟐.

✨ The 11th Pakistani to do so.

✨ The fastest Pakistani in terms of innings.

✨ The highest average for Pakistan.
— Team Babar Azam (@Team_BabarAzam)

Respect!