The Pakistan Cricket Team won the Asia Cup Championship the 2000 and 2012. Its recent edition, Asia Cup 2022, will be played in T20 format from August 27 to September 11 in Sri Lanka, according to the Asian Cricket Council Asia Cup. After its debut edition in 2016, which India won, this is the second edition in which the Asia Cup will be played in T20 format. Afghanistan, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka will take up five of the six available spots in this Asia Cup, leaving four teams to compete for the sixth spot. Singapore and Hong Kong from the Eastern region and UAE and Kuwait from the Western zone will compete for a spot in the event. Here, we will look at the top ten batters of the Pakistan Cricket Team who have the best batting strike rate in the Asia Cup.
1. Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi
Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi is a right-hand allrounder. He played 23 games from 1997 to 2014 and has an average of 35.46 in 21 innings and scored 532 runs with a strike rate of 140.74 with two hundred and one fifty scores.
2. Mohammad Younis Khan
Mohammad Younis Khan is a right-hand middle-order batsman. He made his debut in Asia Cup in 2004 and played 14 games and scored 546 runs with an average of 49.63 with a strike rate of 100.55. Khan scored two hundred and three fifties.
3. Umar Akmal
Umar Akmal is a right hand wicketkeeper middle order batsman. He scored 510 runs from 2010 to 2014. Akmal played 12 games with an average of 51.00 and a strike rate of 99.41 with one hundred and four fifties.
4. Nasir Jamshed
Nasir Jamshed is a left-hand opening batsman who made his Asia Cup debut in 2008 and played till 2012. Nasir played just six games and scored 298 runs with an average of 74.50 with a strike rate of 99.33 with one hundred and three fifties.
5. Shoaib Malik
Shoaib Malik is an experienced Pakistani allrounder and the top scorer for Pakistan in the Asia Cup. He has scored 786 runs in the Asia Cup in 17 games from 2000 to 2018 with an average of 65.50 and a strike rate of 90.65 with three hundred and three fifties.
6. Fawad Alam
Fawad Alam is a left-hand top-order batsman who played just four games from 2008 to 2014. He scored 251 runs with an average of 251.00 and a strike rate of 89.32 with one hundred and two fifties.
7. Inzamam-Ul-Haq
Inzamam-ul-Haq is a retired right-hand top-order batsman. He made his debut in the Asia Cup in 1995 and played 15 games till 2004 and scored 591 runs with an average of 59.10 and a strike rate of 89.27 with six fifties.
8. Misbah-Ul-Haq Khan Niazi
Misbah-ul-Haq Khan Niazi is a right hand middle order batsman. Haq scored 419 runs in 14 games playing from 2008 to 2014 with an average of 46.55 and a strike rate of 85.51 with five fifties.
9. Saeed Anwar
Saeed Anwar is a Pakistani left-hand opening batsman who played for Pakistan in the Asia Cup from 1995 to 2000. Anwar played nine games and scored 320 runs with an average of 35.55 and a strike rate of 77.66 with two fifties.
10. Mohammad Yusuf
Mohammad Yusuf is a right-hand batsman. He played from 2000 to 2008. Yusuf scored 490 runs in 14 games with an average of 54.44 and a strike rate of 76.80 with one hundred and two fifty-plus scores.
