Babar Azam

About

Mohammad Babar Azam (Urdu, Punjabi: محمد بابر اعظم; pronounced [muhamməd babəɾ azəm]; born 15 October 1994) is a Pakistani international cricketer and a former captain of the Pakistan national team in all three formats of the game. A right-handed top-order batter, he captains Peshawar Zalmi in the Pakistan Super League. Azam was a member of the Pakistan team that won the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy. Babar is reappointed as the test captain of the Pakistan national test team on 5 July 2026

== Early life ==

Babar Azam was born on 15 October 1994 into a family from the Walled City of Lahore. His father Mohammad Azam Siddiqui owned a small watch repair shop while his mother is a housewife. He is the eldest of three siblings Safeer Azam, Faisal Azam and Fariya Azam. His older first cousins (through his elder paternal uncle) Kamran and Umar Akmal were the reason he was attracted to cricket, and their stories inspired him to take up cricket as his profession. He had been a ball boy at Gaddafi Stadium before joining a cricket academy and starting his domestic cricket career there.
He sought guidance from Rana Sadiq, his first coach, who taught him the fundamentals of batting. Later, he went…