Almost a decade after his retirement, Shahid Afridi remains famous for many things and infamous for a few, too. Among the latter are the ducks. Ask most cricket fans born before the 2000s, and they’d remember him as the Pakistani superstar who’d either go big and Boom Boom or get out for zero.

Unfortunately, for the next big sensation of the country’s men’s cricket, Babar Azam, he has already surpassed him in that. On Tuesday (November 18), Babar recorded his ninth duck in T20 internationals, while batting against Zimbabwe in the first T20I of the home tri-series, beating Afridi’s career record of eight.

Babar is now only behind youngster Saim Ayub and the retired former wicketkeeper Umar Akmal, who had 10 each, for most ducks in Pakistan men’s cricket.

The former skipper got out fo

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