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Stats - Babar Azam fastest to 15 ODI tons, as Pakistan register their highest successful chase

Pakistan snap 16-match winless streak across all formats against Australia

Babar Azam brought up a 73-ball century, Pakistan vs Australia, 2nd ODI, Lahore, March 31, 2022

Babar Azam brought up a 73-ball century  •  AFP/Getty Images

349 - Target chased by Pakistan in Lahore, their highest successful chase in ODI cricket. The previous highest was 327 against Bangladesh in 2014. Pakistan had scored more runs in an ODI chase only once - 361 for 7 against England in 2019 while chasing 374.
10 - Pakistan's 349-run chase was the tenth-highest successful chase in ODI cricket - incidentally, five of these have come against Australia. It was the first instance of Pakistan chasing down a 300-plus target against Australia. Pakistan also recorded their highest ODI total against Australia.
10 - Consecutive ODI defeats for Pakistan against Australia before their six-wicket win in Lahore. Pakistan's last win against Australia came in January 2017 in Melbourne. Pakistan's latest win also put an end to their 16-match winless streak since the start of 2019 across all formats against Australia.
15 - Number of centuries for Babar Azam in ODI cricket, the joint-second most for Pakistan in this format. Saeed Anwar leads the list with 20 tons while Mohammad Yousuf also had 15 ODI hundreds. Babar has scored five centuries in ODI chases, the second most for Pakistan behind Anwar's ten.
83 - Innings Babar has played for his 15 ODI centuries. He is the fastest player to get to 15 hundreds in ODI cricket. Hashim Amla was the previous fastest to 15 ODI tons in terms of innings, scoring his 15th century in his 86th innings.
4 - ODI hundreds as captain for Babar, from only 11 innings. These are the most ODI hundreds for a Pakistan captain, surpassing Azhar Ali's tally of three. Three of the four tons by Babar as captain have come while chasing a target.
2 - Number of instances of two century stands for Pakistan for the first two wickets in an ODI, including today's game. Pakistan last had 100-plus stands for their first two wickets in the 2019 Nottingham ODI against England.
2 - Previous instances of two Pakistan batters scoring a hundred in the same successful ODI chase. Before Babar and Imam today, Naved Latif and Inzamam-ul-Haq scored hundreds during a successful 273-run chase against Sri Lanka in 2001. Abid Ali and Mohammad Rizwan also scored tons against Australia in 2019, but in a losing cause.
697 - Runs between Pakistan and Australia in Lahore on Thursday. This is the second-highest aggregate in an ODI hosted by Pakistan. The highest is 709 runs between Pakistan and Zimbabwe in 2015 in Lahore.
7.50 - Economy rate of spin bowlers in Lahore on Thursday across the 42 overs they bowled. This is the second-worst bowling economy for spinners in an ODI match (min: 250 balls bowled). The worst is 7.65 during the 2005 ODI between India and Pakistan in Visakhapatnam.

Sampath Bandarupalli is a statistician at ESPNcricinfo