{"id":255827,"date":"2022-04-19T05:38:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T00:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=255827"},"modified":"2022-04-19T05:38:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T00:38:17","slug":"babar-gains-third-position-on-iccs-most-test-runs-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/babar-gains-third-position-on-iccs-most-test-runs-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Babar gains third position on ICC\u2019s most Test runs list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Babar Azam takes the third spot with 682 runs after England\u2019s Joe Root took top spot and Australia\u2019s Usman Khawaja second<br \/>\n Islamabad<br \/>\nAfter being crowned International Cricket Council\u2019s (ICC) Player of the Month, Pakistan skipper Babar Azam has set another record by taking the third spot on the \u201cmost runs\u201d list for the ICC World Test Championship 2023 cycle.<br \/>\nThe ICC, on its official Twitter account, released the list of the top ten batsmen of the World Test Championship and star batter Babar gained the third position.<br \/>\nPakistani captain came on third with 682 runs. England\u2019s Joe Root got on top of the list with 1,175 runs and Australia\u2019s Usman Khawaja took the second spot with 751 runs.<br \/>\n\u201cJoe Root comfortably leads the pack for most runs scored so far in the ICC World Test Championship 2023 cycle,\u201d ICC captioned the post.<br \/>\nICC crowns Babar Azam Player of the Month<br \/>\nEarlier, the ICC had announced Babar as their \u2018Player of the Month\u2019.<br \/>\nThe star player bagged the monthly award and defeated West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite and Australian skipper Pat Cummins.<br \/>\nBabar continued his brilliant performance throughout March, with his superb 196 in the second Test against Australia in Karachi and became the first player to win the ICC Men\u2019s Player of the Month award on two occasions, having won the title in April 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babar Azam takes the third spot with 682 runs after England\u2019s Joe Root took top spot and Australia\u2019s Usman Khawaja second Islamabad After being crowned International Cricket Council\u2019s (ICC) Player of the Month, Pakistan skipper Babar Azam has set another record by taking the third spot on the \u201cmost runs\u201d list for the ICC World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1314,627],"class_list":{"0":"post-255827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-babar-azam","9":"tag-icc"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Babar gains third position on ICC\u2019s most Test runs list<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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