The Pakistan team led by Babar Azam had a very disappointing start to this T20 World Cup, but the Pak team ended its campaign with a win against Ireland. During this, captain Babar Azam has achieved a special feat against Ireland. He has surpassed MS Dhoni in terms of scoring the most runs in the T20 World Cup.

While chasing 107 runs against Ireland, Pakistan’s team looked to be in trouble, but on the basis of Babar Azam’s captaincy innings, the team won by 3 wickets. Captain Babar scored the highest 32* runs. With this innings, Babar has become the highest run scorer as a captain in the T20 World Cup.

He has scored 549 runs in 17 innings in this tournament so far at an average of 36.60 and a strike rate of 111.35. MS Dhoni scored 529 runs in 29 innings as captain in the T20 World Cup. Apart from Babar-Dhoni, Kane Williamson (527), Mahela Jayawardene (360) and Graeme Smith (352) are in the top-5 list of players who scored the most runs as captain in the T20 World Cup.

Most runs as captain in T20 World Cup

• 549 – Babar Azam (111.35 strike rate)
• 529 – MS Dhoni (123.88 strike rate)
• 527 – Kane Williamson (111.65 strike rate)
• 360 – Mahela Jayawardene (130.9 strike rate)
• 352 – Graeme Smith (115.03 strike rate)

Talking about the Pakistan vs Ireland match, the Irish team batted first and fell to the Pakistani bowlers and the team could only score 106 runs in the stipulated overs. In response, the Pakistan team, which came out to chase the target of 107 runs, looked in great trouble at one time, but Babar Azam held one end.

Abbas Afridi played a useful innings for Pakistan after Pakistan lost 6 wickets at a score of 62. Babar Azam shared a crucial partnership of 33 runs with Abbas and led the team to victory.