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Babar Azam breaks Virat Kohli’s record, becomes fastest to score 100 T20 fifties

Babar Azam breaks Virat Kohli's record, becomes fastest to score 100 T20 fifties

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Babar Azam breaks Virat Kohli’s record, becomes fastest to score 100 T20 fifties
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Babar Azam took only 341 innings to reach the milestone. The next best, Virat Kohli, took 401 innings.

Babar Azam has joined the elitist of elite lists in T20 cricket. The quality Pakistani batter just scored his 100th fifty. Babar reached the milestone in the 23rd match of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2026, between the Peshawar Zalmi and the Quetta Gladiators, in Karachi.

Babar took just 341 innings for his century of fifties in the shortest format. India’s Virat Kohli is the next best, and he needed 60 more innings to get there. If one talks about just Pakistanis, Shoaib Malik is the next best with 83 fifties in T20 cricket. And he has retired with 515 innings.

Fastest to 100 fifties in T20 cricket

  • Babar Azam – 341 innings
  • Virat Kohli – 401 innings
  • David Warner – 435 innings
  • Jos Buttler – 468 innings

Excluding Babar and Kohli, only two other cricketers have managed to score 100 half-centuries in the shortest format. David Warner was the first man to get there, while Jos Buttler reached there just 3 days ago, on April 12, during the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 match between the Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants.

Most fifties in T20 cricket

BatterSpanInningsRunsHighest
Score		AverageStrike
Rate		100s50s
David Warner2007-202643514121135*36.96140.6110116
Virat Kohli2007-202640113722122*42.09134.979107
Babar Azam2012-20263411213512242.13128.3511100
Jos Buttler2009-20264681402112435.05146.318100
Alex Hales2009-202652314449119*29.91144.51792

Babar, who’s Peshawar Zalmi’s captain, remained unbeaten on 71. He helped his team chase down 155 with 8 wickets in hand and 9 balls to spare. He had the highest strike rate among Peshawar batters and scored 45% of the total runs. His form in the PSL 2026 has been exceptional. He’s scored 2 fifties and has remained unbeaten on both occasions. He’s also the second-highest scorer, behind his own opening partner Kusal Mendis.

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