The national team’s middle-order batsman and former captain Babar Azam scored a half-century in the Test format after 2 years.
On the third day of the first Test match of the series being played in Centurion, former captain of the national team Babar Azam once again appeared in form and scored a half-century after a long wait of 2 years.
In the second innings of the Test match, Babar Azam fell victim to Marco Jensen by scoring just 50 runs.
Babar Azam completed his half-century in the 10th Test match, he and the fans had to wait for 19 innings in 2 years.
Earlier, Babar Azam scored his last Test fifty in December 2022. During the same match, Babar Azam also completed 4,000 runs in Tests, thus becoming the first Pakistani batsman to score 4,000 or more runs in all three formats.