The star Pakistani Cricketer, Mukhtar Ahmad, who shined in both T20’s, has snatched another record from the worldly acknowledge player, Sanath Jayasuria.
During his first three T20 international matches Mukhtar Ahmad set another international record of scoring most runs in the first three T20 matches of the career.
Sources revealed that Mukhtar Ahmad, who was given, “Men of The Series” award in a series against Zimbabwe scored highest runs in the three T20’s of its career which is 183.
This record of scoring most runs in the first three matches of T20 was previously held by the Sanath Jayasuria of Sri Lanka who scored 180 during his first three T20 matches.
Mukhtar Ahmad scored two consecutive fifties in two matches played against Zimbabwe in Lahore that helped Pakistan to achieve huge targets of over 170 runs in both matches.
By this, he became the first player to receive man of the series title in home series after the huge gap of six years of absence of International Cricket in Pakistan.
Mukhtar played his first T20 match against Bangladesh and scored 38 runs, he played his second T20 match against Zimbabwe in Lahore and scored 83 runs while his third T20 was also against Zimbabwe in Lahore where he scored 62 runs.
MUKHTAR LEAPFROGS TO 25TH SPOT IN T20I RANKINGS
Pakistan batsman Mukhtar Ahmed rocketed 199 places to 25th in the ICC Player Rankings for T20I Batsmen after impressive showings against visitors Zimbabwe in the recent two-match series.
Mukhtar won player of the match awards in both the games for his scores of 83 and 62, playing a pivotal for Pakistan in both the thrilling encounters.
Hamilton Masakadza has returned to the top 10. Masakadza scored 43 and 39, which helped him move up four places to ninth in the latest rankings.
Other Zimbabwe batsmen to improve their rankings were Elton Chigumbura (31st — up by 16 places), Sean Williams (65th — up by 21 places), Vusi Sibanda (80th — up by eight places) and Sikandar Raza (106th — up by eight places).
India’s Virat Kohli leads the pack, followed by Australia’s Aaron Finch and Alex Hales of England.
In the bowlers’ list, Christopher Mpofu has returned in 58th spot, while Sean Williams is 80th (up by 19 places) and Shoaib Malik is 82nd (up by 21 places).
Samuel Badree of the West Indies is the top ranked bowler, followed by his team-mate Sunil Narine and Sachithra Senanayake of Sri Lanka. Shakib Al Hasan leads the all-rounders’ list, but Shahid Afridi has slipped one place to fourth.
