{"id":19363,"date":"2022-06-29T18:25:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T13:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=19363"},"modified":"2022-06-29T18:25:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T13:25:45","slug":"babar-azam-smashes-another-kohli-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/29\/babar-azam-smashes-another-kohli-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Babar Azam Smashes Another Kohli Record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Babar Azam is perhaps the most talked about cricketer in the recent months due to his superlative form with the bat in international cricket. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While many former cricketers have argued that on current form he is perhaps the best batter in the world, others have spoken about expanding the &#8216;Top 4&#8217; of international batting into a &#8216;Top 5&#8217; to include Babar along with the likes of Virat Kohli, Joe Root, Steve Smith and Kane Williamson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether or not he is considered among the best, Babar has been piling on the runs for his Pakistan side and leading them from the front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His form in limited overs cricket has been phenomenal and the Pakistan skipper continues to rule the charts in ICC Rankings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the latest rankings, Babar has maintained his top billing in T20I batting rankings and as a result smashed yet another record of former India captain Virat Kohli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another record for Babar Azam \ud83d\udc4a<br><br>All the changes in this week&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MRFWorldwide?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MRFWorldwide<\/a> men&#39;s rankings \ud83d\udc47<\/p>&mdash; ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1542059494452396032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babar Azam is perhaps the most talked about cricketer in the recent months due to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[657,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cricket","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - 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