Babar Azam dismissed duck for Sydney Sixers: Pakistan cricket team’s star batsman Virat Kohli was out for zero in the qualifier match for Sydney Sixers.

New Delhi: BBL 2025-26 has become like a nightmare for Pakistan cricket team’s star batsman Babar Azam. Babar, playing in this league for the first time, is failing miserably for Sydney Sixers. Although Sydney Sixers gave continuous opportunities to Babar, he could not leave his mark in even a single match. A similar situation happened with Babar in the qualifier match of the tournament also. Sydney Sixers faced Perth Scorchers in the qualifiers.

Babar Azam, who came to open the innings for Sydney against the Scorchers, was stumped on the second ball without opening the account. In this way Babar again disappointed Sydney Sixers. Even before this, Babar Azam was a continuous flop in batting. Talking about the performance of Babar Azam, he has played a total of 11 matches in the tournament, in which he scored 202 runs at a modest average of 103.06. He is being criticized a lot for his disappointing performance.

Sydney Sixers lost in the qualifiers

Due to Babar’s disappointing game, Sydney Sixers lost badly in the qualifier match. In the match, Perth, batting first, scored 147 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs game against Sydney. Finn Allen played an excellent inning of 49 runs in the match for Perth. Apart from this, Ashton Turner scored 29 runs and Jhay Richardson scored 20 runs. In bowling, Ben Dwarshuis, Mitchell Starc, Jake Edwards took 2-2 wickets for Sydney.

In reply to Perth’s 147 runs, Sijni was reduced to a score of 99 runs. Once again Steve Smith played the highest innings of 37 runs for Sydney. Apart from Smith, no other player of the team could score runs, due to which Sydney had to face a crushing defeat in the qualifier match. In bowling for Perth, Mahil Bradman took the maximum of three wickets, while Cooper Conley and David Paine took 2-2 wickets.