The year 2024 has not been good at all for former Pakistan captain Babar Azam. He has flopped in all three formats. Currently Babar is on a tour of South Africa with the Pakistan team. The third and last match of the ODI series between the two teams is being played at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg. Like the previous match, Babar got a good start in this match too, but he once again failed to play a big innings. In such a situation, he got to see such a day in his ODI career, which had not happened even once in the last 9 years.

Babar Azam's last hope also shattered

Babar Azam played an inning of 52 runs on 71 balls in the last match of the ODI series against South Africa. Babar hit 7 fours in this innings. But he could not convert it into a big innings and once again missed scoring a century. Let us tell you, this is Pakistan's last ODI match in the current year. In such a situation, Babar ended this year in ODIs without scoring any century. Babar started his international career in the year 2015. Except his initial years, he had scored at least one century in ODIs every year. But this time this trend has been broken. That means Babar has not scored a century in ODI after 9 years.

Babar Azam played a total of 6 ODI matches in the year 2024. During this period he scored a total of 228 runs at an average of 57.00. In these matches, Babar also scored half-centuries twice, but he could not touch the 100-run mark even once. Let us tell you, not only in ODI but Babar has not scored a century in any format this year. Pakistan now has to play only 1 more test match in the year 2024. If Babar does not score a century even in this match, then his wait for a century will become longer.

How was the performance in Test and T20?

Babar played a total of 4 test matches for Pakistan in the year 2024. In these matches, he could score only 148 runs at an average of 18.50, during which he neither scored a half-century nor a century. Due to this poor performance he was also dropped from the team. At the same time, Babar played a total of 24 T20 matches this year, in which he scored 738 runs at an average of 33.54.