Babar Azam becomes 19th Pakistani batter to score more than 3,000 Test runs. He achieved the feat during the second innings of the first Test between Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Babar Azam has become the sixth-fastest batter to score 3,000 runs for Pakistan. The 27-year-old took 73 Test innings to reach the landmark. Javed Miandad and Mohammad Yousuf hold the joint record for the fastest to reach this stage.
Here are the fastest to 3,000 Test runs for Pakistan:
| Player | Innings |
| Javed Miandad | 67 |
| Mohammad Yousuf | 67 |
| Saeed Anwar | 68 |
| Younis Khan | 70 |
| Majid Khan | 72 |
| Babar Azam | 73 |
| Asad Shafiq | 75 |
| Hanif Mohammad | 76 |
| Azhar Ali | 76 |
The batsman has scored 3,016 runs at an average of 47.87 in Tests so far. Babar is currently the fourth-ranked Test batter in the world.
