ICC name Babar Azam as Men’s Cricketer of the Year 2022
Pakan skipper Babar Azam was Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy i.e. the ICC Men’s Player of the Year title for the calendar year of 2022. Babar is only the second Pakan cricketer to win the prestigious award after Shaheen Shah Afridi, who won it in 2021.
Across formats, Babar scored 2598 runs in 44 matches at an average of 54.12, which included eight centuries and 15 half-centuries. Apart from this, Pakan also reached the 2022 T20 World Cup final under his captainship. This, despite of losing their opening two matches in the competition to India and Zimbabwe.
Double delight for Babar Azam 🤩
After being named the ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year, the Pakan star bags the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for the ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year 👏#ICCAwards
— ICC (@ICC) January 26, 2023
Babar was the only player to breach the 2000 run mark in the year gone . The 2021 Men’s ODI Player of the Year continued his form in the 50-over format, scoring 679 runs in nine matches.
In Tests, despite Pakan winning only one of their nine matches, the captain accumulated 1184 runs from the same. A memorable moment of him in the whites arrived in the second Test against Australia in Karachi.
With Pakan requiring 506 runs to win in close to six sessions that remained, Babar notched up 196 runs off 425 deliveries and walked off to a standing ovation, having scored the highest a Test captain in the fourth innings of a Test.
