Dr_Bassim
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I have seen the last two matches against Afghanistan and I saw the first match vs India.
People are wondering what has happened to Fakhar, why Imam can't score like he did against Zimbabwe C and why Babar Azam is not firing on all cylinders.
Many people are thinking its just a mental thing because once upon a time the same players fired in the Champions Trophy final and won it for us.
I feel that Pakistan are not doing enough in batting at the moment as is.
People seem super and hyper excited about how Babar and Imam negated the spinners for over 25 overs at an average of 3 runs an over while the asking rate climbed to over 6 an over. Infact, barring an experienced Malik miracle, the approach was on course for Pakistan to lose the game. An experienced Afghan bowler might have killed off the game for Pakistan with more than 10 runs to defend off the last over.
Yesterday again, we batted at 3.5 an over for well over 25 overs and people were classifying it as a building phase and then suddenly we will attack.
I don't know why we are chasing lost theories and ideas.
Look at how India paced their chase? Did they decide to bat at 3.5 an over to build the innings and then attack in the last 10? They kept up with the runrate never letting it reach to a level where remaining batsmen have to come and hit 6's from the word go.
Our approach to batting is all wrong and we don't need snails and slow pokes in our team.
Which begs the question? Do they have it in them?
I might be criticized for saying this, but barring the miraculous Champions Trophy win, this team has been destroyed in NZ, and Asia Cup is just showing that our top 3 don't have the brains or the brawn to bat against good teams at a good strike rate.
It's all good to say the team is mentally shot and are mentally disturbed and hence the slow scoring.
But maybe Champions Trophy was rightly a one off event at least in terms of batting, where everything clicked in Pakistan for batting. If you can't reproduce those performances except against weak Zimbabwe C teams, then perhaps its time to question whether that performance really was a one off thing?
But if Pakistan believes they are winning the next match against Bangladesh or the final against India by batting at 3.5 an over for 30 overs whether batting first or chasing, they have already lost the match.
Discuss.
People are wondering what has happened to Fakhar, why Imam can't score like he did against Zimbabwe C and why Babar Azam is not firing on all cylinders.
Many people are thinking its just a mental thing because once upon a time the same players fired in the Champions Trophy final and won it for us.
I feel that Pakistan are not doing enough in batting at the moment as is.
People seem super and hyper excited about how Babar and Imam negated the spinners for over 25 overs at an average of 3 runs an over while the asking rate climbed to over 6 an over. Infact, barring an experienced Malik miracle, the approach was on course for Pakistan to lose the game. An experienced Afghan bowler might have killed off the game for Pakistan with more than 10 runs to defend off the last over.
Yesterday again, we batted at 3.5 an over for well over 25 overs and people were classifying it as a building phase and then suddenly we will attack.
I don't know why we are chasing lost theories and ideas.
Look at how India paced their chase? Did they decide to bat at 3.5 an over to build the innings and then attack in the last 10? They kept up with the runrate never letting it reach to a level where remaining batsmen have to come and hit 6's from the word go.
Our approach to batting is all wrong and we don't need snails and slow pokes in our team.
Which begs the question? Do they have it in them?
I might be criticized for saying this, but barring the miraculous Champions Trophy win, this team has been destroyed in NZ, and Asia Cup is just showing that our top 3 don't have the brains or the brawn to bat against good teams at a good strike rate.
It's all good to say the team is mentally shot and are mentally disturbed and hence the slow scoring.
But maybe Champions Trophy was rightly a one off event at least in terms of batting, where everything clicked in Pakistan for batting. If you can't reproduce those performances except against weak Zimbabwe C teams, then perhaps its time to question whether that performance really was a one off thing?
But if Pakistan believes they are winning the next match against Bangladesh or the final against India by batting at 3.5 an over for 30 overs whether batting first or chasing, they have already lost the match.
Discuss.