What a stupid logical extreme you picked. No one said players have to blindly slog and aim for 200M sixes, you really do pick some nonsense.
The way the fielding restrictions and number of men in circle these days in ODIs, players should find it easy to accelerate as their is more scope to score boundaries.
Your silly logic is always oh fans are expecting a six to be hit every ball.
At least use a bit of common sense rather than picking some dumb extreme no asked for.
Mamoon brother
How can you justify intentionally taking singles in the death overs boss? No one is saying Babar isn’t a great bat, it’s just really poor intent from a general batting perspective. Pakistan had 6 wickets in the hut at the time
The reality is that personal milestones matter. This concept that a batsman should not care for fifties and hundreds and only care for the team’s score is nonsense to be honest.
Almost every batsman in history has had a smidge of selfishness about him. Obviously, if you need 25 in the last over and you take a single of the first ball you to get to your hundred that would be unforgivable but no one does that.
However, if you are close to a milestone, it is only natural that you will become more risk-averse because you have eyes on the milestone.
Batsmen throughout history have been slowing down when approaching milestones but it has only become a thing recently to bash them for it.
Look at Kohli, Sharma etc. they do the same. From the subcontinent, Sehwag was the only odd one out who preferred to get to his milestones with sixes.
This “let’s not care about individual milestones” mentality is more of an English cricket thing post 2015 and I respect what they are doing. Their batsmen couldn’t care less if they miss out on a fifty or a hundred because they only focus on scoring quickly.
Even a master batsman like Joe Root has missed out on at least 10 Test centuries because of trying to play risky scoops close to his milestones instead of playing it safe.
However, you cannot expect everyone else to do the same. Batsmen will always want to achieve milestones. It is part of the game. They want their team to win but they also want to score runs individually.
At the end of the day, you are not only judged and remembered for being part of a winning team but you are also remembered for your individual statistics.
Please try to understand this. Most batsmen will always become more risk-averse when approaching a milestone even regardless of whether it is the death overs or not.
The only situation where they will not -or should not- slow down is if they are chasing a total and the RRR is too steep for them to not try to hit a boundary every ball. In other situations it is acceptable and expected.
“Nervous nineties” is a timeless concept in cricket. It has existed since the day the game was invented and the concept of individual milestones was established.
As per modern fans there should be no nervous nineties because a batsman shouldn’t care if he is on 99 or 29 because they only thing matters is the team score.
Unless and until you eliminate the concept of milestones, players will always want to achieve them. It is the nature of the sport and please do not try to change something that has always existed. Batsmen have always cared for and become risk-averse when approaching a milestones.
Just because one generation from one team is doing things differently it doesn’t mean it will be adopted by others and it will continue like that forever.
let's get those numbers back up boys 
