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Netizens Erupt As Babar Azam Scores A Century In The Galle Test
By CricShots - Jul 17, 2022 8:12 pm
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Two days after witnessing a huge amount of praise for a supportive tweet for former Indian skipper, Virat Kohli, Pakistan captain, Babar Azam has again garnered some applause during Pakistan’s first Test match against 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
Babar Azam played a fluent knock

Babar Azam was at his very best on the second day of Pakistan’s first Test of the two-match series against Sri Lanka, which is being played at the Galle International Stadium. The 27-year-old talismanic batter played a valiant knock of 244-ball 119 in an innings when 19 was the second-best score, came off Mohammad Rizwan’s bat.

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In the process, Babar went passed Virat Kohli to become the quickest (by innings) to surpass the tally of 10000 international runs by an Asian. While Babar completed the feat in 228 innings, Kohli took 232 innings to reach the landmark. 

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 team 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.

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In fact, Naseem along with Babar Azam made a decent partnership of 70 runs 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.

Here is how the fans reacted to the century from Babar Azam:

https://twitter.com/RN31888/status/1548627768396681216?s=20&t=jNep75IEVc3jx0PSf2db9w

https://twitter.com/FahadKhilji02/status/1548631274516090880?s=20&t=fXD0jRBQiSLQ2yYQVqPs2w