Babar Azam’s fear with the bat and ICC rankings persist as he has dropped from the third to the twelfth place. The 29-year-old has been in a droop in Check cricket managing simply 317 runs from 15 innings since 2023 with a modest common of 21.1 contributing to his vital fall within the rankings.
Azam has fallen out of the highest 10 within the batting rankings for the primary time since December 2019. He has struggled to achieve a fifty in his final 16 innings of Check cricket as his downfall continued within the just lately concluded Pakistan-Bangladesh sequence.
Earlier than Bangladesh toured Pakistan, Babar was ranked third within the Check batting charts. Nevertheless, his scores of 0, 22, 31, and 11 throughout the 4 innings of the two-Check sequence led to his downfall from the highest 10. He now sits at twelfth place and might want to wait till the three-match sequence in opposition to England at house in October to revive his place. With Babar’s exit from the highest 10, wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan is now the only real Pakistan participant remaining within the prime 10.
Quite the opposite, Joe Root has strengthened his place on the prime of the Check batting rankings and is nearing his highest-ever Check score. After scoring twin centuries at Lord’s throughout the second Check in opposition to Sri Lanka, the previous England captain has amassed 922 score factors, only one level shy of his profession peak. Root presently leads the Check run-scoring charts for the 12 months.