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This is getting more and more bizarre now
Why was Qadir picked in the side ?
Why was Qadir picked in the side ?

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This is getting more and more bizarre now
Why was Qadir picked in the side ?![]()
Utter madness. Every team in the world is experimenting right now, trying to make sure they try every possible candidate before the world cup, and here we are selecting a specialist bowler and not even bowling him.For his fielding perhaps?
That was quite simply idiotic. Specially keeping in mind Hasnain doesn't have too much confidence in his Yorker under pressure so a length ball was going to be his go to defense. The batsman slashing hard and edging it down to third man was as predictable as it gets. Wasim commented on that immediately after the ball.Babar is a clueless captain.
Why would you have the third man up for a 146 kph bowler against a tail ender.
Poor again today.
His own fielding didn't help, but the bowling changes were bizarre.
Giving M Wasim jr the last over was an awful decision.
But what on earth was he thinking bowling Nawaz for only 1 over.
Indeed. IMO T20 is the most challenging format for captains as the margin for error is so small.It's just gets worse and worse with each match
- Nawaz bowls the opening over and then is nowhere to be seen. Why?
- Iftikhar didn't bowl throughout the AC (except 1 over in the final), didn't bowl in the first 4 matches but now is bowling his whole quota?
-Surely if Waseem had already conceded 36 in his first 2, Nawaz could've bowled a second over in the middle somewhere and then we'd have Rauf and Hasnain bowling the 19th and 20th?.
-Khushdil , the best spinner of last PSL hasnt had a bowl in any match internationally since then.
-Rauf has been playing nonstop for months now. Are we waiting for him to break down before he gets a rest?. A one match lay off isn't enough. Doesn't anyone in the management realize there is no international bowler bowling at 150 that plays this much?. He should have been rested this whole series.
I think Pakistan has suffered the most T20i defeats under him
Can someone verify or discredit this claim?
Nope
Done well today Babar, atleast by looking at the NZ score so far.
What was he thinking by giving Nawaz the 20th over today?
His bowling changes were tremendous today...Playing X1 was wrong...should have had 1 more seamer
His bowling changes were tremendous today...Playing X1 was wrong...should have had 1 more seamer
Giving a 'part-time'-spinner the last over? Shabash
he did the same thing in Asia Cup if i remember correctly.
the guy doesnt learn, nor does he understand. Even if Nawaz was getting smacked, finish him off before the 17th over. I have seen enough cricket to say that spinners can often bow under pressure or mess up things in the last over.
even when India needed 50 off 3 overs, could had bowled him17th over. Even if he went for 20 runs, 30 off two overs could had been defended.
But Babar being Babar is not gonna learn. I have given up on critisizing him. Just gonna celebrate whatever he does now. There is just no point in arguing.
The guy is gonna stay like that, and we can whine all about it.
Giving a 'part-time'-spinner the last over? Shabash
Babar's captaincy was spot-on today. He made attacking decisions and I don't think his decision-making can at all, be faulted for today's result. Had he given Nawaz an over earlier and Kohli would have taken Nawaz for another 20 then people would be talking about what a defensive captain he is. And that would have been a defensive decision.
Fact is, Babar used his gun bowlers early because he knew that if Haris or Shaheen got the wicket of Kohli, India's chase was effectively over. Unfortunately, Shaheen was very off-color today and Kohli played one of the greatest T20I innings of all-time. If there were even 20 runs to defend in the final over, I think Nawaz would have been in far less pressure and the result could have been different.
But sometimes you have to tip your hat to the opposition as well. Kohli and India were absolutely incredible today and better than Pakistan in the most critical moments of the game.
I saw it very differently.
Firstly, to go in with only three seamers on a wicket that had remained under the covers for the last few days was a big mistake. But for this Babar and the management take responsibility.
Secondly, you could see both batters were waiting to go after one of the spinners.. they had both bowled decently upto that point but it was far too risky to bowl that over from Nawaz at that stage.
It was always going to be the over over they go after and they did.
That was the time to bring on a seamer.
You can't give 6 or 7 overs consecutively against world class batters unless the ball is spinning and they're picking up wickets...
For me, and the friends I was watching the game with, that was the big turning point.
Puttar what planet are you on?
Nawaz has taken out some of the biggest names in cricket in the past year or so. He is a big wicket taker. Anyone can have an off day
The "part time" spinner is your main bowler who is playing for his bowling skills...who else would you have bowled? Did we have any other "full time" bowlers? Or are you one of those who believe he should have bowled Nawaz out straight after he conceded 21? His bowling changes were on point for the first time today which proves he is learning.
The issue today was the fact that we went with only 5 bowlers...Had India not had a sixth bowler they would be in the same boat with axar bowling 3 more overs.
Oye, tameez nal gall kar. Tennu purana poster samajh key teri itni tanqeed nahi kitti, jitni chawlan tu ehte marna eh.
You don't give a spinner last over against India. Doesn't matter how many big names he has taken out. I have nothing against Nawaz, I like him, but it was unfair to give him the last over. Besides he is not a front line spinner. He was already taken to cleaners in his third over and was very nervous.
The captain and team management messed it up by not playing fourth seamer and why didn't give the captain bolw Ifitikhar who already had his confidience going after a good fifty?
Disagree.
I thought the selection was absolutely on-point. Nawaz had a positive match-up against Kohli and Pandya. Both had a SR of under 100 against left-arm spin coming into this match. They didn't succumb to their weakness and instead played some brilliant cricketing shots against Nawaz that unsettled him and made him change his game plan. And for that, they deserve credit.
Nawaz made some costly blunders in the final over by bowling two wides and a no-ball. Which is inexcusable given the circumstances. Without those extras, he had bowled a fairly good over. But unfortunately, his nerves got the better of him, and he just couldn't deliver in that high-pressure situation. It's a game. It happens.
Poor at times when making key and important decisions.
The Nawaz 20th over call was ridiculous and so horribly wrong.
Poor at times when making key and important decisions.
The Nawaz 20th over call was ridiculous and so horribly wrong.
Wahab Riaz says Pakistan lost the match against India when Shaheen Shah Afridi was made to bowl the 18th over of the match.
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