Full name Babar Hayat Role Cricketer Name Babar Hayat | National side Hong Kong Batting style Right-handed Bowling style Fast bowling | |
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Born 5 January 1992 (age 32) ( 1992-01-05 ) Attock, Pakistan Current team Hong Kong national cricket team | ||
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Babar Hayat (born January 5, 1992 in Attock, Pakistan) is a Pakistani-born Hong Kong cricketer and current Hong Kong ODI captain. He is a right-handed batsman.
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International career
Babar made his T20I cricket completion debut against Nepal on 16 March 2014. On his debut match he made only 20 runs from 25 balls. He made his One Day International debut against Afghanistan in the 2014 ACC Premier League on 1 May 2014. In the 2016 Asia Cup Qualifier in February 2016, he became the first Hong Kong player to score a century in a T20I match.
Babar Hayat has the record for the highest ever T20I score by any player in the second innings of a T20I (122) and second in the list for scoring the highest ever T20I score in a losing cause just behind Australia's Shane Watson's 124*. Babar Hayat's 122 is also the highest ever score in T20I in the 2nd innings of a T20I in a losing cause. Babar Hayat's 122 is in second place for the highest percentage of runs in a completed innings of a team,where his team scored only 175/7 in that innings.
Babar Hayat holds the joint record for taking the most number of catches in a single T20I as a fielder(4) along with Darren Sammy,Ajinkya Rahane,Peter Borren,Corey Anderson and Dinesh Chandimal.He too has taken the most number of catches for Hong Kong in a single T20I.
On 16 February 2017 in the 2015–17 ICC World Cricket League Championship match against the Netherlands, he and Anshuman Rath made 197 runs for the third wicket. This was a List A record for Hong Kong and a record for any wicket in a World Cricket League match.
