Also, Pakistan’s highest ever run chase was last year - 349 against Australia. Babar Azam smashed 114(83) and got Man of the Match.
Look at the bowlers he smashed it against? These bowlers don't even fit in the nedtherlands squad lol. You know it's a crao bowling unit when Travis head is your best bowler.
Only zampa was A string and zampa is up and down, the guy functions on turning wickets but always gets pelted otherwise, he's been pelted a few times in this cup before aus came back into rhythm. He was horrific the entire tour, and other bowlers like cameron green aren't worth mentioning.
Their was no stark, Cummings, maxwell or Hazelwood in that lineup.
Babar azam only smashes if the bowlers are beyond pathetic. That's why he only smashed sodhi and was looking to smash darly Mitchell lol.
I don’t get your point to be honest. He did exactly what he needed to do today - I’m not judging his whole career just his performance today. Targeting the weak bowlers is smart batting, how is that a bad thing?
The target is 400, not 200, and dls requires you to go at above par, you're suppose to target everybody which fakhar was doing. Babar was ducking against Boult and southee lol.
If the bowlers are quality babar just tries to accumulate which he's good at doing. If he attacks he gets out cause he's clueless on how to attack even semi decent bowlers.
He gave fakhar zero backing until sodhi came. That's more risky because fakhar was your only striker and in order to decrease the chance of getting out, he shpuld have helped attack, if only one striker keeps attacking it increases pressure and chances of getting dismissed, not decreases.
Before today, babar has had 3 50's and all match losing. If you cut him slack for sa soft dismissal, what slack will you cut him for india or Afghanistan?
Kuldeep mocked him for saying unlike other bats babar doesn't even try to attack or make him do anything different. The afg innings was a joke.
What about babar's own statement saying that if fakhsr bats 20 0vers we win. What about you babar? You're no 1, shouldn't we win if you bat 20 overs?
You're previous argument for ex cricketers opinions > Randoms on the Internet holds zero weight when their opinions are super stistions not facts. I saw what viv said.
Viv
Hoped key word hoped that babar would become the era defining batsmen, which after 7 years he hasn't. Had he been era defining, he'd be the x factor alongside fakhar not fakhar only.
India has an entire team of X factors, if rohit was smacking like fakhar yesterday, you'd see Gill, kohli, sky, Rahul all back him by attacking as well.
Not waiting for sodhi to come to attack or just ducking and giving singles back to rohit and forcing him to soak up all the pressure.
The reason you're not getting my viewpoint is because you don't want to understand it or refuse to understand it, not because you're dumb or clueless. You are very smart, so don't sit here telling me you don't understand the viewpoint when you clearly do and cam comment on it the right way.
