BULAWAYO: Pakistani opening batsman Fakhar Zaman has become the quickestbatsman to score the quickest 1000 runs in one-day international (ODI)history.
Zaman achieved the feat against Zimbabwe in the fifth and final ODI when hetook the field, needing just 20 runs to achieve the milestone
The opening batsman reached the milestone in just his 18 innings, breakingthe record of 21 innings first set by the legendary Sir Viv Richards in1980 and since equaled by Kevin Pietersen, Jonathan Trott, Quinton de Kockand, most recently, Babar Azam.
Zaman also broke the record of most runs by a batsman in a five-match ODIseries breaking Zimbabwe’s Hamilton Masakadza’s record of 467 runs.
During the fourth ODI against Zimbabwe on Friday, Zaman smashed an unbeaten210 off 156 deliveries, hitting five sixes and 24 boundaries, to post thehighest individual ODI score by a Pakistani batsman surpassing 194 by SaeedAnwar against India, scored 21 years ago.