Karachi Kings' Babar Azam: Modern-day great salvage a draw

Babar Azam frustrated Aussie scoring a personal record 196 off 425 balls (70.5 overs). Azam also etched his name in the book of record by scoring the highest runs by captain in the 4th innings. He outscored former Proteas captain Michael Atherton who scored 185  runs in 1995 to top the list.

Babar got into spartans mode to salvage a draw for his country all the way from the gate of defeat.

Ironically speaking, "Someday, you play to win, someday, you play to avoid defeat", well the latter assignment is the hardest to pull off but the Karachi King Azam took the conveyance with absolute calmness and attitude and stood strong in the sea of doubts and distress and like it was intended from the start  of Day 5 itself, he successfully navigated to sail his ship across to the shore of a draw,  collecting a point.

Babar Azam has set his standards so high that he was displaying a sign of dissatisfied and frustration to get out at 196, Babar could barely bring up himself to raise his bat as he walks off rather he was seen perversely punching the boundary board quite in dismay. 4 runs short from scoring a maiden double  century in test didn't stop the Aussie players from congratulating him and showing respect both on and off , retired and active cricketers who were all impressed enough to showered with good wishes. The International cricket fraternity also showered appreciation, some of them includes;

Harsha Bhogel, "Test cricket was where Babar Azam needed to take a step up and here it is. 480 to get and 170 overs to bat when he walked in. Hope of a miraculous win might have flickered but even a draw is a great result. What a player".

Michael Vaughan tweeted, "Without question I think @babarazam258 is the best all round Batter in the World right now .. Brilliant across all the formats".

Brett Lee, "What a special knock @babarazam258 👏🏻".

Babar azam rained century on Aussie victory parade

In what may seem an unlikely situation by the dictating like performance of the mighty Aussie against Pakistan in the 2nd test match witnessed the young 22 years old batter Abdullah Shafique showing resolute resistant scoring 71 not out building partnership in the middle with captain Azam in the 2nd innings.

Pakistan are 192/2 with Babar Azam 109* and Abdullah Shafique 71* at the end of day 4 still needing 314 to win from 90 overs.

Aussie bowlers were left beleaguered and wicket-less in the last session, In cruise for a breakthrough, no bowler manage to trouble batsman except Swepson, a debutant leg-spinner for Aussie, who was sensational yet tad-unlucky to grab himself a wicket for a day.

Pakistan Captain Babar Azam running between the wickets with a young batter was well appreciated by Michael Clarke who commented, 'OHH man WHAT a player. Unbelievable. Just wanna share a little story that Me and Ponting were talking about this series and Ponting told me to watchout for Babar, he is the most complete batsman I’ve seen since AB de Villiers"