Pakistan may have been unable to qualify for the final of the inauguralWorld Test Championship, but captain Babar Azam has left his mark on thecompetition. Azam currently has the highest batting average in thecompetition, 77.00 in 16 innings. Azam has scored 924 runs in 10 matchessince the start of the competition, the tenth highest in the competition.——————————
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Since the start of the World Test Championship, Pakistan has played 12 Testmatches, while Babar only missed two against New Zealand recently. Azamalso has 4 centuries, only behind Australian middle-order batsman MarnusLabuschagne. He has scored centuries against Australia, Sri Lanka, andBangladesh in the World Test Championship, two of them at home and oneagainst Australia in Australia.
Babar is currently leading his side for the second time, in the second Testmatch against South Africa and scored 77 runs in the first innings. Thiswas his fifth half-century in the World Test Championship as well, trulyreflecting his importance in Pakistan’s fragile batting line-up.
Babar is the only Pakistani batsman in the list of top ten batting averagesin the World Test Championships. 4 Indians, 2 Australians and one batsmaneach from England, South Africa, and New Zealand make up the top ten list.——————————
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Here is the list for the highest average (min 10 innings) in the World TestChampionship:Player Innings Runs Average 100sBabar Azam 16 924 77.00 4Marnus Labuschagne 23 1,675 72.82 5Rohit Sharma 10 685 68.50 3Steve Smith 22 1,341 63.85 4Ravindra Jadeja 13 469 58.62 0Kane Williamson 14 817 58.35 3Ben Stokes 24 1,131 53.85 4Ajinkya Rahane 22 983 51.73 3Virat Kohli 16 705 50.35 2Dean Elgar 19 816 48.00 2
**minimum 10 innings*
