It will happen, it’s the circle of life.
Babar and Rizwan still have 4-5 years left and by the time they are on their last legs, Pakistan will have another batch of players and there will be a couple of them who will be of good quality, like Babar and Rizwan were.
Pakistan produced Miandad, Inzamam, Yousuf, Younis and then Babar. They will produce more batsmen too, maybe not as frequently as other countries but they still will.
Same goes for WKs too. Sarfaraz replaced Akmal who replaced Moin/Latif. Rizwan replaced Sarfaraz and someone will replace him across formats but that someone is not Haris.
If people are tired of Babar and Rizwan, that is fine. There is no denying they have been underwhelming and for very long, but, you can’t force inferior players down our throats just because you are tired of them.
We have seen enough of Haris since 2022 to come to the conclusion that just like Azam Khan, he is not good enough to replace Rizwan as Pakistan’s WK.
Similarly, you watch Farhan bat and the way he moves his feet makes it glaringly obvious that he isn’t someone who can replace Babar.
Pakistan must accept that for all their faults and shortcomings, Babar and Rizwan still make the team on pure merit. We cannot deny this. That doesn’t mean that we should neglect their failures or not demand them to improve.
Let me put it this way — Pakistan has not yet reached a point where they can drop both of them and expect the team to be stronger. It will happen one day, but not today.
PCB will die on this hill and it will die very soon. They will both be back very soon and rightly so.
“Rizbabar are the answers” — answers to what exactly? If the question was who can bat 12 overs for a run-a-ball 40 and still lose a 119 chase, then sure, correct. That was their moment, and they flunked it.
Modern T20 isn’t about pretty footwork — does Maxwell or SKY move their feet? It’s about power, bat swing, intent, and range.
Farhan brings that — six T20 centuries in recent past, topping PSL and domestic tournaments for years. You don’t luck into that.
Same with Haris. He has what Rizwan hasn’t shown in ages: the ability to actually disrupt bowlers from ball one. Sure, he’s raw, but strike rates at 150+ aren’t flukes. That’s a weapon you can’t coach — you can only back it.
What’s shocking isn’t that Pakistan lost again to India — let’s be real, that’s practically a tradition now. What’s shocking is your posts acting like Rizbabar would’ve magically flipped the script. Bro, they were there before, and Pakistan still got slapped around by Bumrah, Kuldeep, Axar, and Pandya. Outside of one random fluke, they’ve been humiliated on repeat.
And the funniest bit? You’re the one who always says Pakistanis love turning whoever’s not playing into a savior… and now you’re doing the exact same thing with Rizbabar. Peak comedy.
Honestly, with or without them, outcomes haven’t changed. Before, one anchor ate up 12 overs. Now, you’ve got a bunch of 20s and 30s flying around. Messy? Sure. But team totals are about the same, results are about the same — only now there’s at least a chance of something better down the line. At least things are being shook up to see what maybe out there. Is there a secret sauce? Maybe, let’s find out.
Right now, Rizbabar play on reputation, not merit.
