Babar Azam's Cover Drive Mentioned In Pakistan’s Ninth Grade Physics Textbook

In an interesting development, a picture shared by Pakistani journalist Shiraz Hassan is currently going viral on social media. The post shows the Pakistan skipper’s cover drive has been found in the 9th Grade Physics syllabus. As per reports, the question was a part of the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education and was first shared on Reddit.

Pakistan skipper Babar Azam failed to add runs under his belt during the recently concluded Asia Cup 2022, but the cricketer is well known for his batting masterclass.

The 27-year-old is currently the 3rd ranked Test batter in the ICC rankings and sits 1st and 2nd in the ODI and T20I batter rankings respectively. The right-handed batting dynamo is the most famous for striking amazing cover drives and is currently making headlines for the same.

Check the question in the physics textbook below

In the book, the question based on kinetic energy reads, “Babar Azam has hit a cover drive by given kinetic energy of 150 J to the ball by his bat.

a) At what speed will the ball go to the boundary if the mass of the ball is 120g?

b) How much kinetic energy footballer must impart to a football of mass 450g to make it move at this speed?”

Babar Azam's cover drive related question in 9th grade physics syllabus (federal board) (via Reddit) pic.twitter.com/I2Tc9HldsG

— Shiraz Hassan (@ShirazHassan) September 13, 2022

ICC’s poll about the best cover drive in cricket

It is important to mention that, ICC put out a poll back in 2021, asking followers to choose who among Babar, Virat Kohli, Joe Root, and Kane Williamson has the best cover drive.

Interestingly, Babar emerged as the winner of the poll after beating Kohli by 0.1%. Out of the 2,60,143 people that voted, 1.1% people chose Root while Kane received 7.1% votes. Kohli was selected by 45.9% of people, while Babar topped the charts with 46% votes.

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