Pakistan has had some terrible batters. Except for Misbah and Fakhar Zaman. No batter since 2010 was able to keep his spot in the team. Everyone lost their spot either due to flawed technique or poor fitness.
Currently, all the criticism going on, bo one has issues with Babar Azams batting technoque, only issue is approach. Technique cant be fixed but approach can always be fixed.
He needs proper coaching.
Same goes for Rizwan. Best keeper in the country and we saw in 2020 and 2021 how we fixed his game and was scoring runs.
You need a coaching set up to fix these issues, not hire aqib to just fan pitches and thab be exposed in odi and t20 cricket.
Anyways, if the new squad wins a few upcoming t20 series, than i am willing to change my opinion.
But if we lose, i doubt others will change theirs
Anyways, if the new squad wins a few upcoming t20 series, than i am willing to change my opinion.
Wont happen so you dont need to change your opinion. It's foolish to think it'll happen considering the strength of the squad.
He needs proper coaching.
Idk about rizwan but babar has never worked with coaches that's the issue. Yousaf correctly identified all problems qith his technique and so did sunny. Yousaf personally worked with Babar but he didn't listen. Infact yousaf worked with Abdullah, Usman Khan and the entire 2024 team and none of them listened. He quit for that very reason.
Lastly technique can be improved. Ricky Ponting just had an interview where he outright talked about both kohli and Babar in test cricket.
He told them both to take a small break and work on their technique targeting the 3rd offstump line. And he told them to learn from Steve smith as well
The reason why smith came back to form is because he switched back to his 2015 technique. Smith post 2015 still played odi and t20 but he started focusing on test full time and it became clear he was going to be a test star only.
Hence he changed his stance. His new stance was more closed and he shuffled across. This stance did wonders for his in Ashes. The benefits of this stance was that it allowed him to balance himself better against pace and spin and play more grounded shots since he disnt see the need to focus on lofting in tests.
But the downside was that smith was now more prone to lbw due to shuffling across and the new stance also prevented him from playing certain deliveries that most batters could easily dispatch. Things like full tosses or short pitched bowling became uncomfortable to play.
Eventually he went out of form and bumrah kept lbw him over and over and so did many others.
What he did in bgt was go back to the 2015 stance which is more open and he still shuffles across but less. The downside is that it exposes his stumps and allows for a greater chance to be clean bowled, however it allows him to loft more and increases bat swing speed. He was able to tack bumrah, Indian pacers and sri lankan spinners better and get back into century galore mode.
Babar's old stance and old technique from debut is massively different from his current stance as well. His old stance was similar to Unar Akmal. The new stance is better. But maybe he should listen to ponting and modify his technique.
He's clearly vulnerable against spin, 3rd off stump line and just overall poor when pulling off the backfoot.
Maybe listen to sunny and yousaf.
