Babar Azam won the best ICC ODI ranking of his career, 16 points ahead of Virat Kohli

• Babar Azam scored a career-high 873 points.
• The Pakistani captain leads India’s Villat Kohli by 16 points.
• India’s Rohit Sharma ranks third in the ICC men’s rankings.

After an outstanding performance in the Edgbaston game against England on Tuesday, Pakistan captain Babar Azam led the men’s ODI batting rankings of the International Cricket Committee, surpassing India captain Verat Kohli.

The 26-year-old Pakistan captain scored 158 points in the final game of the series and scored 8 points, reaching a career high of 873 points, 16 points more than the second-ranked Coli.

India’s Rohit Sharma ranked third in the ICC men’s rankings with a score of 825, New Zealand’s Rohit Taylor ranked fourth with a score of 801, and Australia’s Aaron Finch ranked fifth with a score of 791.

Although England was able to sweep the ODI series 3-0, Azam’s 158 points helped his team score against England.

Azam hit the ball up to four times and hit 14 boundaries in his 139 innings, which also brought his 14th ODI hundred-in his 81st inning-making him The fastest person to reach the 14 ODI century milestones.

This is also the third ODI hundred people of Babar on British soil, making him the first Pakistani to do so. Saeed Anwar, Fakhar Zaman and Imam ul Haq each received two ODI hundreds. Babar is already the first Pakistani to finish 1,000 runs in the UK.

158 points are the highest ever scored by the Pakistan captain in ODI, surpassing the 125* scored against India’s Shoaib Malik in Karachi in 2008. This is also the highest score of any Pakistani player in England, beating the best Imam ul Haq before. The individual score in a single game is 151 points.