Maybe i saw a different series but let me tell what i saw.
He got out twice. The last dismissal was bad luck and some good thinking from the aus team.
It was not as if he already had faced 50 balls
There was no rr pressure.
In the second game they made him bat at 6. Yes number 6 and then indeed he looks lost. Thats not his game.
And right now top priority is the wc.
Shezad
Opener 2
Fawad
Misbah
Maqsood
UA
Sarfraz
This should be the top 7.
And this top 7 should have played as much as possible together.
Batting position should have nothing to do with simple rotation of strike.
Let met tell you what I saw.
Fawad scores most of his runs in the point region and off side , where the cut shot seems his favorite. In the first game, Australians from slip to point to mid off region were Smith, Maxwell, Bailey,and Warner. They made sure Fawad couldn't get anything to the circle.
Since it was his first game, he didn't realize that he would have to do something else to score. Finally tried to play a cut shot and fell into the trap , of playing it straight to point.
Second match, came in at 6 ( dubious position I must admit) but when Umar Akmal departed all he had to do was take singles. Imagine that ring of fielders again. For 3 miserable overs, Fawad couldn't even buy a single except the last ball, which I think Aussie fielders were enjoying giving it to him on last ball of the over. Suddenly the poor guy realized, I really can't take singles against this team towards the off side, so he decided to try to hit. But poor muscle strength hampered his ability to hit the ball out of the infield.
In the end of 2nd ODI he looked a lost soul and didn't know how to take singles and how to hit.
3rd ODI.
Sees the spinners and decides the Aussies won't think he will play legside so decides to sweep the ball, pre-meditating the shot. But the Aussies knew this would be the get out shot. Smith moved brilliantly from slip to legside and took a great catch.
Now in your world, you can say he was in the wrong position.
My world : I saw a beaten man, who knew he was never going to hit big shots, but knew that the standards of fielding of Aussie team was so high, that he was never going to get the easy single he loved to get against Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. A desperate man. In the end , even Babar probably sympathized with him, getting a better SR than him with effortless ease.
Blame : Batting position
Issue : Inability to rotate strike no matter what the position.
Thanks.. Try reading it if you can.
