Pakistan captain Babar Azam notched up his nineteenth ODI century towards Nepal within the Asia Cup 2023 opener at Multan Cricket Stadium. With this, he raced previous South Africa legend Hashim Amla and have become the quickest to attain 19 ODI centuries.

Including to his unbelievable 151-run blitz within the opening match, Babar shattered one other batting document. He not solely raced to 19 centuries quicker than anybody but additionally broke one in every of Virat Kohli’s data. 

The Pakistan captain went previous Virat Kohli’s 136 and now holds the title for the best runs scored by a captain in a single Asia Cup innings. Going again to 2014, Kohli slammed 136 runs as captain throughout the Asia Cup towards Bangladesh whereas chasing 280. 

Kohli had snatched the document from Sourav Ganguly, who had smashed an unbeaten 135 towards Bangladesh within the 2000 Asia Cup. Speaking about Babar Azam, he scored 151 runs from 131 balls with the assistance of 14 boundaries and 4 sixes in his innings.