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Babar and Rizwan set new marks

Pakistan became the first team to qualify for the ongoing Twenty20 World Cupensuring a 45-run clear victory against Namibia in Abu Dhabi. Their two openers, captain Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan exhibited another clinical performance with both batsmen scoring half-centuries and putting on 113 runs for the first wicket. With the performance, Babar and Rizwan overcame India's Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan to have scored most century partnerships in Twenty20 Internationals. Besides, they have now the partnership of the highest run in T20 Internationals in a calendar year with 967 so far. Additionally, Rizwan now holds the record of scoring maximum runs in men's T20Is in the current year with 1661, and two more matches are still left.