Moin Khan's son Azam Khan is currently playing in Bangladesh Premier League (BPL 2023). Azam Khan has scored the first century of his T20 career in BPL. In the sixth match of BPL 2023, Azam Khan played an unbeaten inning of 109 runs in 58 balls in the match against Chattogram Challengers, in which he hit 9 fours and 8 sixes. Please inform that in this tournament, Azam is playing for Khulna Tigers. Although Khulna Tigers lost the match by 9 wickets, Azam, son of former Pakistani wicketkeeper Moin Khan, stole the show by hitting shots all around the ground with his bat.
Record- Tell that Azam Khan has done a special feat in T20 by scoring a century. Actually, Azam's father Moin Khan has also done a wonderful job of scoring a century in T20. That is, Azam Khan and Moin Khan are the first father-son pair in the history of T20 cricket, whose names have registered a century in T20.
At the same time, Azam Khan has also become the third Pakistani batsman to score a century in the history of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL). Earlier, Ahmed Shahzad and Usman Khan had scored centuries in BPL. In this match, Azam thrashed the bowlers by scoring runs with a strike rate of 187.93. Azam completed his century with a six and also celebrated this century by spreading both hands, the video of which is going viral on social media.
Not only this, in this match itself, Pakistani player Usman Khan, playing for the opposing team, also turned the tide of the match by scoring a century. Usman Khan played an inning of 103 runs in 58 balls, in which he hit 10 fours and 5 sixes. This was the reason that the team of Chattogram Challengers was successful in winning this match.
Azam Khan continues to face criticism regarding fitness
Even though Azam Khan is the son of former Pakistani veteran wicketkeeper Moin Khan, he always seems to face criticism regarding his fitness. Due to being overweight, Azam is not getting continuous opportunities in the Pakistan team. Although he has played 3 T-20 International matches for Pakistan, but has not been able to make a place in the team continuously. It has also been said about him that he has done a lot of work regarding his fitness. Now it has to be seen that after scoring a brilliant century in BPL whether the Pakistan Cricket Board will consider to include Azam Khan in the team in the coming tournament or not.