Pakistan’s all-star captain Babar Azam will be honored with the country’s third-highest civilian award, the Sitara Imtiaz, on March 23.
With this honour, Babar at the age of 28 will become the youngest person to be awarded the Star for outstanding achievements in the field of sports.
Earlier, this honor was held by former captain Sarfraz Ahmed who was the youngest person to win this honour.
Sarfraz, who led Pakistan to the Champions Trophy title in 2017, was honored with the award by then Governor Sindh Muhammad Zubair at the Governor House in Karachi in 2018.
On August 14 last year, the government had announced that it would confer Babur with the country’s third highest civilian honour.
The star batsman will take a break from cricket to attend the event as he will not be participating in the series against Afghanistan starting on March 24.
Apart from Babar and Sarfraz, other cricketers who have received this award include Misbah-ul-Haq, Younis Khan and Shahid Afridi.
While Mohammad Yousuf received the award in 2011, Saeed Ajmal in 2015, Inzamam-ul-Haq in 2005 and Javed Miandad in 1992.
