Babar Azam’s 67 and 55 in the just concluded test between Pakistan and Australia at Lahore was in losing cause to provide the 32^nd occasion of a captain’s twin half centuries in a losing cause in the annals of test cricket. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	FI	SI	Team	Opp	Ground	Mon/Year
1	G Giffen	57	51	Aus	Eng	Melbourne	Mar 1895
2	MA Noble	61	64	Aus	Eng	Melbourne	Jan 1908
3	JWHT Douglas	50	60	Eng	Aus	Melbourne	Feb 1921
4	HW Taylor	59*	56	SAF	Eng	Leeds	Jul 1924
5	J Ryder	63	87	Aus	Eng	Adelaide	Feb 1929
6	GC Grant	53*	71*	Win	Aus	Adelaide	Dec 1930
7	VS Hazare	89	56	Ind	Eng	Leeds	Jun 1952
8	L Hutton	72	77	Eng	Win	Barbados	Feb 1954
9	PBH May	63	53	Eng	Aus	Lord’s	Jun 1956
10	ER Dexter	57	62	Eng	Ind	Kolkata	Dec 1961
11	MAK Pataudi	75	85	Ind	Aus	Melbourne	Dec 1967
12	IM Chappell	65	50	Aus	Eng	Melbourne	Feb 1975
13	KC Wessels	59	74	SAF	Win	Barbados	Apr 1992
14	BC Lara	51	79	Win	SAF	Durban	Dec 1998
15	BC Lara	67	75	Win	NZl	Wellington	Dec 1999
16	SP Fleming	57	99	NZl	SAF	B’Fontein	Nov 2000
17	CL Hooper	53	54*	Win	SAF	Trinidad	Mar 2001
18	T Taibu	71*	52	Zim	Ind	Bulawayo	Sep 2005
19	MS Atapattu	88	67	Srl	Ind	Delhi	Dec 2005
20	H Bashar	69	73	Ban	Srl	Bogra	Mar 2006
21	A Flintoff	70	51	Eng	Ind	Mohali	Mar 2006
22	RT Ponting	77	72	Aus	Ind	Bengaluru	Oct 2010
23	MS Dhoni	77	74*	Ind	Eng	Birmingham	Aug 2011
24	M Jayawardene	72	60	Srl	Aus	Sydney	Jan 2013
25	AD Mathews	50	66	Srl	NZl	Ch’church	Dec 2014
26	AN Cook	75	56	Eng	NZl	Leeds	May 2015
27	JE Root	59	72	Eng	Win	Leeds	Aug 2017
28	LD Chandimal	57	61	Srl	Ind	Nagpur	Nov 2017
29	JE Root	83	58*	Eng	Aus	Sydney	Jan 2018
30	Mohd Rizwan	71	60	Pak	NZl	M M’ganui	Dec 2020
31	BRM Taylor	81	92	Zim	Ban	Harare	Jul 2021
32	Babar Azam	67	55	Pak	Aus	Lahore	Mar 2022

It also provides the second occasion of a Pakistan captain’s twin half centuries in a losing cause in the annals of test cricket. Both such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	FI	SI	Team	Opp	Ground	Mon/Year
0	Mohd Rizwan	71	60	Pak	NZl	M Maunganui	Dec 2020
2	Babar Azam	67	55	Pak	Aus	Lahore	Mar 2022

It also provides the seventh occasion of a captain’s twin half centuries in a losing cause against Australia in the annals of test cricket. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	FI	SI	Team	Opp	Ground	Mon/Year
1	JWHT Douglas	50	60	Eng	Aus	Melbourne	Feb 1921
2	GC Grant	53*	71*	Win	Aus	Adelaide	Dec 1930
3	PBH May	63	53	Eng	Aus	Lord’s	Jun 1956
4	MAK Pataudi	75	85	Ind	Aus	Melbourne	Dec 1967
5	M Jayawardene	72	60	Srl	Aus	Sydney	Jan 2013
6	JE Root	83	58*	Eng	Aus	Sydney	Jan 2018
7	Babar Azam	67	55	Pak	Aus	Lahore	Mar 2022

BC Lara of West Indies and JE Root of England are the two captains to witness their twin half centuries in losing cause on two occasions

No	Player	FI	SI	Team	Opp	Ground	Mon/Year
1	BC Lara	51	79	Win	SAF	Durban	Dec 1998
2	BC Lara	67	75	Win	NZl	Wellington	Dec 1999
1	JE Root	59	72	Eng	Win	Leeds	Aug 2017
2	JE Root	83	58*	Eng	Aus	Sydney	Jan 2018