ISLAMABAD – Fakhar Zaman is making huge strides in shortest format of thegame.
Following his 73 against Australia today, Fakhar Zaman has now become theleading run-scorer in the T20I format for the year 2018.
The left-handed batsman has surpassed India’s Shikhar Dhawan, who currentlysits in 2nd place with 419 runs as opposed to Fakhar’s 425.——————————
Out of the top 10 run-scorers in 2018, three belong to Pakistan whichinclude Fakhar Zaman (1st position), Sarfraz Ahmed (8th position) and BabarAzam (10th position).
The complete list is as following:Player Matches Innings Not-Outs Runs Highest Score AverageFakhar Zaman 12 12 0 425 73 35.41S. Dhawan 10 10 0 419 90 41.90MJ Guptill 10 10 0 410 105 41.00AJ Finch 7 6 4 398 172 199.00C Munro 9 9 1 396 104 49.50Mushfiqur Rahim 10 10 3 359 72* 51.28RG Sharma 11 11 0 334 97 30.36Sarfraz Ahmed 12 10 2 292 89* 36.50MK Pandey 10 9 6 276 79* 92.00Babar Azam 6 6 2 274 97* 68.50
Fakhar Zaman has established himself as a proper opener for Pakistan sincethe start of the year. He maintains a strike-rate of 148.60 which indicatesthat he gets good amount of runs at a very quick pace to allow Pakistan asolid start.
In his 12 matches, Fakhar has made 3 half-centuries and picked up 3 man ofthe match awards as well. He has hit 48 boundaries and 15 maximums in thosematches.