\nKARACH
\nPakistan\u2019s captain Babar Azam on Monday became the only sixth Pakistani to amass 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year in the Test series against England.
\nBabar reached this milestone on the third day of the Karachi Test against the Englishmen when he reached 45 in his innings. Babar, though, was out after scoring 54.
\nWhile this was the seventh occasion of a Pakistani batter scoring 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year, Babar is the sixth cricketer from the country to do so as Younis Khan achieved this feat twice.
\nFormer captain Younis had scored 1,179 runs in 2006 and another 1,064 runs in 2014.
\nMohammad Yousuf leads the chart with 1,788 runs in the year 2006. Other batters in the list from Pakistan include Azhar Ali (1,198 in 2016), Inzamam-ul-Haq (1,090 in 2000) and Mohsin Khan (1,029 in 1982).
\nOnly three other batters have amassed 1,000 runs this year before Babar.
\nEnglish cricketer Joe Root has scored 1,098 runs in 27 innings, Australia\u2019s Usman Khawaja 1,079 runs in 19 innings and England\u2019s Jonny Bairstow with 1,061 runs in 19 innings.
\nBabar, who currently has 1,009 runs from 15 innings, has two more innings left this year as Pakistan is scheduled to play a Test match against New Zealand between December 26 to 30 in Karachi. He is still in contention to finish the year 2022 as the leading Test runs scorer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KARACH Pakistan\u2019s captain Babar Azam on Monday became the only sixth Pakistani to amass 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year in the Test series against England. Babar reached this milestone on the third day of the Karachi Test against the Englishmen when he reached 45 in his innings. Babar, though, was out after scoring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-302309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n