Babar Azam sets new shameful world record, becomes first captain to…
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In these collection of pictures, we find out all about the shameful record set by Peshawar Zalmi captain and former Pakistan skipper Babar Azam. Image credit: X (Formerly Twitter)
Former Pakista captain Babar Azam is leading Peshawar Zalmi in the PSL 2025 season. Zalmi have only managed to win 1 out of their 3 matches so far and are currently 5th out of 6 teams. Image credit: X (Formerly Twitter)
Babar Azam has only scored 3 runs in 3 matches in PSL 2025. He has scores of 0, 1 and 2 so far. Image credit: X (Formerly Twitter)
Babar Azam scord his 9th duck as captain earlier this month against Quetta Gladiators in PSL 2025 match. Image credit: X (Formerly Twitter)
Babar Azam has recorded most ducks as captain in PSL 2025 - 9 so far. No other captain has more ducks than Babar Azam in the Pakistan Super League. Image credit: X (Formerly Twitter)
Babar Azam gets salary of about Rs 1.88 crore for playing in PSL 2025 season, according to media reports. Image credit: X (Formerly Twitter)
Babar Azam has scored more than 3500 runs in PSL history with 2 hundreds and 33 fifties in 93 matches. Image credit: X (Formerly Twitter)
Imad Wasim and Wahab Riaz have most ducks in PSL history but not as captains. Imad has 12 ducks while Wahab Riaz managed 10 ducks.
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