Pakistan batter Babar Azam lost his cool after being trolled by the local fans in the ongoing Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2024 on Friday, February 23. Babar, who captains Peshawar Zalmi in PSL, was subjected to chants of ‘Zimbabar’ by Multan Sultans fans against whom the Zalmi’s were playing.
The chant was suggestive of Babar’s great record against Zimbabwe – a relatively weak team in today’s era – and failure in big matches.
Visibly frustrated by the chants, Babar was sitting on the sidelines along with the support staff when he gestured towards the chanting fan and tried to scare him by mimicking a bottle throw. Have a look at the video below:
The batter, however, who had a modest 2023 in terms of runs, was stripped of captaincy after Pakistan’s horrendous performance in the 2023 ODI World Cup.
In the on going PSL though, he has been in superb form, scoring a fifty each in the two games before facing Multan. Babar has 171 runs to his name in three matches played so far – second only Rezza Hendricks’ 174.
Recently, he created by becoming the fastest to reach 10,000 T20 runs, going past former West Indies batter Chris Gayle and India’s Virat Kohli in the list. Babar achieved the feat in ongoing Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2024 on Wednesday (Feb 21) while playing for Peshawar Zalmi against Karachi Kings in Lahore. Babar has reached the 10K-run mark in his 271st innings while Gayle had done so in 285th innings and Kohli in 299th.
Babar also scored 68 runs in the first match this season and reached the 3,000 runs in the PSL – the first player to do so in the league.