PSL 2026: What even Virat-Rohit could not do, Babar Azam did it; Scored a historic century after 783 days

PSL 2026: The 29th match of Pakistan Super League 2026 was played yesterday between Peshawar Zalmi and Quetta Gladiators. in this match Babar Azam Peshawar Zalmi, captained by , performed brilliantly and won over Quetta Gladiators by 118 runs. Captain Babar Azam’s brilliant batting was also seen in this match. After a long time, fans got to see a brilliant century from Babar’s bat. For quite some time now, Babar has had to face a lot of trolling due to his poor batting and strike rate.

Apart from this, he has been asked questions regarding this in press conferences too, but now after 783 days, Babar has given a befitting reply to the critics by playing a century. The special thing about Babar Azam’s innings was that he played only one dot ball. Till date, no one has been able to achieve this feat in T20 cricket, including the legendary Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma.

How was Babar Azam’s innings?

Batting brilliantly against Quetta Gladiators, Babar Azam played an unbeaten inning of 100 runs on 52 balls. During this period, 6 fours and 4 sixes were seen from his bat. Whereas Babar’s strike rate was 192.31. Babar completed his century on the last ball of the innings. Babar was batting on 98 runs till 19.5 overs. After this, he completed his century by taking a risky 2 runs with a shot on the last ball. This is the second fastest century of Babar in T20 career.

How many centuries has Babar scored?

Babar Azam has had excellent figures in T20 cricket. He is the batsman who has scored the most centuries in this format after the legendary Chris Gayle. So far, Babar has scored 12 centuries in T20 format. However, right now he is far behind Chris Gayle because Gayle has 22 centuries in his name in T20 cricket. This is Babar’s third century in PSL. Apart from this, this is his second century in PSL against Quetta Gladiators.

How was the condition of the match?

Batting first in the match, Peshawar Zalmi scored 255 runs losing 3 wickets in 20 overs. Which included Babar Azam’s unbeaten 100 and Kusal Mendis’s blistering 83 runs on 44 balls. On the other hand, while chasing the target of 256 runs, Quetta Gladiators team was all out for 137 runs in 18.1 overs. In bowling, Mohammad Basit and Ali Raza took 3 wickets each for Peshawar.