Pakistan skipper Babar Azam wins ICC Men’s Player of the Month award for April

Pakistan skipper Babar Azam has won the ICC Men’s Player of the Month for April for his consistent and outstanding performances across all formats in the recently concluded series against South Africa. Babar was in superb form with the bat against the Proteas and scored a match-winning 82-ball 94 in the third ODI of the series followed by another match-winning innings of 122 runs from just 59 balls.

He defeated his fellow countryman Fakhar Zaman and Nepal’s Kushal Bhurtel to clinch the Player of the Month title for April.

The Player of the Month is chosen by fans and the ICC voting academy and former Pakistan batsman Ramiz Raja while representing the academy said that Babar Azam has a different flair of batting and dominating bowling attacks and he richly deserves the player of the month award.

“The world bats in two ways in white-ball cricket. One way is to destroy attacks with muscle and force and then there is the Babar Azam way, like conducting a batting symphony with punch, panache and flair, and he deserves to win this award,” Raja said.

In the calendar month of April, Babar Azam scored 228 runs across the three-match long ODI series with an astounding average of 76 runs per innings. He followed it with another dominating series with the bat in the T20Is and piled on 305 runs across four T20Is at an average of 43.57.