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Nasser Hussain speaking on a Youtube channel about Pakistan's chances at the World Cup 2023:
A great tournament side, mainly because of that bowling attack. In any tournament, whether it be T20, 50 overs if you have genuine wicket-takers - I think Eoin Morgan said it a long time ago - the only way nowadays to stop the run-rate is to get wickets. If you don't take wickets, on some of the flat pitches in India in particular, you're looking at chasing 400, so you have to have wicket-taking bowlers in there - with Shaheen Shah Afridi up front and Haris Rauf.
They're gonna miss Naseem Shah, I think that is a big blow for them, but any seamer that takes part for Pakistan [will be dangerous] - they have seamers as long as your arm, they'll keep coming at you.
They have Babar Azam, that high quality, still just #1 one ranked batter, given that Shubman Gill's pushing him.
They're a very good tournament side. They've got Netherlands up first game - they could lose that! That is Pakistan for you - but then they'll go on a run. Look at the last World T20, they were out of it and then suddenly there they are in the final. They are mercurial because that is the brand and style of cricket they play, they're an incredibly watchable side.
I just think they need to get par and above with their batting. Sometimes Babar and Rizwan bat time because they're worried about the length of their batting [order] and 50 overs becomes a long time.
It's not like England - Bairstow and Buttler and everyone can go hard because you have Livingstone, Curran, Woakes, Moeen, even Wood as we saw in the Ashes - you have so much batting down the order, so England can go hard and recover.
Sometimes I think [Pakistan's mindset is] "50 overs is a long time, we'll get to a par score and then our bowlers will be able to defend that". Fakhar Zaman for example, he's a fabulous player, if he can get him off to a flyer and then Rizwan and Babar just knock it around to get an above par score. If they get an above par score against any team in that World Cup, you're in trouble.