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Babar Azam recorded his ninth T20I duck against Zimbabwe at Rawalpindi, surpassing Shahid Afridi and trailing only Saim Ayub and Umar Akmal for most ducks in Pakistan men’s T20Is.<\/h2>\n
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Babar Azam has surpassed Shahid Afridi’s ducks record.\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Almost a decade after his retirement, Shahid Afridi remains famous for many things and infamous for a few, too. Among the latter are the ducks. Ask most cricket fans born before the 2000s, and they\u2019d remember him as the Pakistani superstar who\u2019d either go big and\u00a0Boom Boom<\/em>\u00a0or get out for zero.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, for the next big sensation of the country\u2019s men\u2019s cricket, Babar Azam, he has already surpassed him in that. On Tuesday (November 18), Babar recorded his ninth duck in T20 internationals, while batting against Zimbabwe in the first T20I of the home tri-series, beating Afridi\u2019s career record of eight.<\/p>\n

Babar is now only behind youngster Saim Ayub and the retired former wicketkeeper Umar Akmal, who had 10 each, for most ducks in Pakistan men\u2019s cricket.<\/p>\n

The former skipper got out for 0 (3) against Zimbabwe at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium. Pacer Brad Evans set him up perfectly, making the first two deliveries shape away from the right-hander, before going wide of the crease for the third and making it jag back in. Babar\u2019s feet didn\u2019t move, and he got stuck on the back pad.<\/p>\n

Babar reviewed the on-field call of out, but it turned out to be umpire\u2019s call on hitting the wickets.<\/p>\n

This was his third duck in six innings, with the previous two coming against South Africa. He also became only the eighth Pakistani batter to get out for a duck against Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

Thankfully for Babar, Pakistan went on to win the match in the last over by five wickets. Zimbabwe scored 147\/8 in the first innings and Fakhar Zaman\u2019s 44 and Mohammad Nawaz\u2019s late 21 (12) sealed the win with four balls to spare.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a close game,” skipper Salman Agha said afterwards, as quoted by\u00a0Cricbuzz. \u201c<\/em>I think we started well in both departments \u2013 bowling and batting \u2013 and when you don\u2019t start well the games get tight towards the end. The spinners have been doing well for the past 4\u20135 months. Whoever comes on \u2013 Shadab, Nawaz, or Abrar \u2013 they always take wickets and don\u2019t give many runs. They brought us back into the game. Last night when I saw the pitch, I knew it wouldn\u2019t be very high-scoring. Normally, Rawalpindi is high-scoring, but recently it hasn\u2019t been. I thought 160\u2013180 would be par. We bowled well, and while chasing 147 I was happy, but we didn\u2019t start well in the powerplay. After that, we had to play accordingly.”<\/p>\n

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