Pakistan’s all-format captain, Babar Azam, has been one of the mostconsistent performers in T20 cricket over the past few years. His terrificperformances with the bat in domestic and international cricket led him tobecome one of the most highly ranked batsmen across all formats, he iscurrently ranked number six in Test cricket, number three in T20I’s and issoon going to become the new number one ODI batsman in the world.——————————

He has already broken the majority of national batting records and is oncourse to register new records at the international level as well. His T20record, in particular, is impressive, he has currently scored 5,999 runs atan average of 45.10 in 164 innings.

Babar needs just one run in T20 cricket to become the second-fastestbatsman in the world to reach the landmark of 6,000 runs.

Universe Boss, Chris Gayle, is the quickest batsman in the world, takingonly 162 innings, to achieve the feat of 6,000 runs. He is currentlyfollowed by an Australian batsman, Shaun Marsh, who scored it in 180innings, while Indian captain, Virat Kohli, sits at the third spot, needing184 innings to cross the 6,000 run mark.

Here are the five quickest batsmen to score 6,000 run mark:——————————

——————————*Player* *Innings* *Time taken*Chris Gayle 162 8 years 225 daysShaun Marsh 180 14 years 9 daysVirat Kohli 184 9 years 34 daysAaron Finch 190 8 years 214 daysQuinton De Kock 194 9 years 39 days

Let’s have a look at Babar Azam’s T20 stats*Player* *Runs* *Innings* *Time Taken*Babar Azam 5,999 164 8 years 130 days

Babar Azam requires just one run in his next 15 innings to become thesecond-fastest batsman to cross the 6,000 run mark. Babar is already thethird fastest batsman to reach the 4,000 and 5,000 T20 runs mark. Babar isalso the second-fastest batsman to reach the 1,000 run mark in T20Internationals.