Babar Azam vs Aiden Markram?

[Ab Fan]

Your are completely lost as far as understanding cricket.

After 8 overs Pakistan were 52/0.
RRR was 8,33 needing 100 in 12 overs.
Rizwan was on 30 from 25 and Babar 20 from 23.

At that point the match was in Pakistanis favor but not won at all, a wicket or a bad over and the match could have turned completely.

6 overs later, Pakistan were 14 overs 112/0 adding 60 runs in 6 overs. Babar Azam sitting on 61 from 45 balls and Rizwan 48 from 39 balls.
Pakistan required just over run a ball, 40 from 36, match was won.

In that match winning phase, Babar added 41 runs in 22 balls and Rizwan played a second fiddle to the 2nd best batsman in the world (Smith being the best) by adding 18 from 14.

It's sad that you seem to watch so much cricket but still can't understand basic things like that due to your bias and hate towards some players.

Kohli, lol.

It is quite rich that you are the one using words like bias and hate for some other posters here. For years, I have been appreciated for my balanced posts including from you too so I will stick to my points only.

The fact that you highlighted at 8 overs, Babar was batting at 20 of 23 balls and that too in the powerplays tells us that actually he was struggling initially and it was Rizwan who set up the initial charge. If he had gotten out, then the scoring rate would have creeped up and a struggling Babar won't have been able to accumulate his inning for too long.

Rizwan was comfortably the best batsman on show and unlike Babar didn't cashed on in the later overs when the dew was impacting the game. He took the initial charge and grinded down the Indian bowlers.

Kohli's knock was high quality, he weathered the storm and took India to a position from where they got enough runs to make a game of it. Unfortunately, this was not a peak Kohli so he wasn't able to up the ante as much as we expect from him. Actually, Kohli's knock was better than Babar but because of the result of the match, I put them both in same tier, however in terms of quality and match situation, it was no lesser.

 

[Mobashir]

It is quite rich that you are the one using words like bias and hate for some other posters here. For years, I have been appreciated for my balanced posts including from you too so I will stick to my points only.

The fact that you highlighted at 8 overs, Babar was batting at 20 of 23 balls and that too in the powerplays tells us that actually he was struggling initially and it was Rizwan who set up the initial charge. If he had gotten out, then the scoring rate would have creeped up and a struggling Babar won't have been able to accumulate his inning for too long.

Rizwan was comfortably the best batsman on show and unlike Babar didn't cashed on in the later overs when the dew was impacting the game. He took the initial charge and grinded down the Indian bowlers.

Kohli's knock was high quality, he weathered the storm and took India to a position from where they got enough runs to make a game of it. Unfortunately, this was not a peak Kohli so he wasn't able to up the ante as much as we expect from him. Actually, Kohli's knock was better than Babar but because of the result of the match, I put them both in same tier, however in terms of quality and match situation, it was no lesser.

The match was actually won by Pakistan when Babar dominated in the middle overs by scoring 41 from 23 balls.

Putting Kohli's name here is a disgrace. His innings was just good, nothing more. He completely failed to accelerate, he was not dangerous at all for Pakistan in the last overs. He hit 0 boundaries against Hafeez and Shadab. I don't know if he even score a 2 against them, he let them bowl.

Mickeal Vaughan was one of many who said Babar is right up there with the best in the world after his superb innings. He completely destroyed you.

 

[Monsee]

This thread has aged well lol

If you compare the numbers on the two, not sure how some still saying Babar is inferior to Markram: I know numbers don't always tell the story but they def give you a heck of info to make an insight from them

https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/babar-azam-348144

https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/aiden-markram-600498

 

[street cricketer]

Two of the most elegant batsmen in the world right now. Babar is the more consistent one, Markram is the more flamboyant one.

 

[MenInG]

Aiden Makram gets to his 6th Test hundred - Not sure how this should be judged against a weak WI attack?

 

[Bhaijaan]

Babar is more prolific and compact as a batsman but my continuous problem with him is that he’s always been good but he’s supposed to be better. All said and done, this is a weak era in historical context, not many players from this era are genuinely pushing for a place in the ATG XI across formats. It’s a shame.