Babar Azam on Tuesday used his Twitter account to express his feelings about achieving two milestones in the second ODI against Sri Lanka in Karachi.
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Not only did he became the fastest to score 1000 runs for Pakistan in a calendar year, the prolific batsman also left behind Indian great Virat Kohli in smashing 11 ODI centuries in just 71 innings .
The Indian skipper took 82 innings to reach the milestone.
In his tweet Babar Azam said he couldn’t ask for a better place to achieve the milestones than in front of “my own people in Karachi, Pakistan”.
“What a game it was!” the batsman exclaimed.
The flamboyant batsman concluded his Tweet with “RiseandRise and #Pakistan Zindabad” hashtag.
With the help of a brilliant century from Azam and a five-wicket haul from fast bowler Usman Shinwari, Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by 67 runs in the second day-night ODI.
