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Mohammad Babar Azam (Urdu, Punjabi: محمد بابر اعظم; pronounced [Muhamməd babəɾ azəm]; born 15 October 1994) is a Pakistani international cricketer and the former captain of the Pakistan national cricket team in all three formats of the game.
The RizBar (Urdu: رِضبَر; ) is a duo of Pakistani professional cricketers consisting of Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam. Azam serves as a top order batter of the Pakistan cricket team while Rizwan is a wicketkeeper-batter. Both batsmen open for Pakistan in the International Twenty20 format.
FILE - Pakistan's captain Babar Azam waits for the coin toss before the beginning of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup cricket match between Ireland and Pakistan at the Central Broward Regional Park ...
Azam took over Pakistan’s Test captaincy in 2021, while he first led in the ODIs in 2020 and in T20Is in 2019. “It is a difficult decision, but I feel it is the right time.
The current captain is Shan Masood [1] He was appointed in November 2023 after Babar Azam's resignation as captain of Pakistan in all 3 formats following the 2023 Cricket World Cup. Pakistan Test match captains [ 2 ]
In 2022, Babar Azam became the Pakistan batter with the most runs — 2,598 — in all formats of the game in a calendar year. [3] Babar has been praised by former English captains Michael Vaughan and Nasser Hussain. Vaughan, who led England to a memorable Ashes win over Australia in 2005, said he admires the way Babar plays.
Farooq Azam, professor of oceanography at the University of California, San Diego; Tariq Ali, political activist, historian, writer, journalist and public intellectual; Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry, nuclear physicist and pioneer of Pakistan's nuclear weapons research program; Nayyar Ali Dada, architect in modernist architecture