Babar Azam has finally broken his century drought that lasted over 800 days last week. However, just days after being hailed once more as Pakistan’s premier batsman, he finds himself on a list that no top-order player aspires to join. In the opening match of the T20I tri-series against Zimbabwe in Rawalpindi on Tuesday, the star batsman was dismissed LBW for a duck after facing just three balls from Brad Evans, marking an early setback in a chase of 148 that Pakistan ultimately secured by five wickets. This dismissal not only highlighted a concerning trend of top-order failures but also pushed Babar ahead of Shahid Afridi for the most ducks recorded by a Pakistan batsman in T20Is.

This recent failure marks Babar’s ninth duck in T20Is. Afridi previously held the record for the second-highe

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