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[PICTURES] Babar Azam V2.0: Performances after resigning as captain

Another dud of an innings this year.
Knowing our record in aus he may not even get 5 more chances on this tour. Hopefully we can see him back to his best soon enough.
 
I don't understand. What is stopping Babar from performing? Today, all the conditions were set for him to score mighty runs, but he failed again. I am disappointed.
 
Tell me how you average 47 and 50 but still produce some of the worst results for your country in its history?
How many players in a team? Does Babar have to score all the runs? How about Masood, an average of 32 in a test career over 10 years And how are they a any worse than the past. Cricket didn't start this year. How many times have we qualified for the SFs since 1999? Maths isn't a great a subject of yours.
 
Another dud of an innings this year.
Knowing our record in aus he may not even get 5 more chances on this tour. Hopefully we can see him back to his best soon enough.
No point in scoring where game and series is done. Like scoring 80 runs when Aus puts 600+ and Pakistan is guaranteed to lose or when series is already 0-2. Those are soft runs.

Greatness is defined by how you perform in strong opposition's den when match/series is alive. You may not be able to control the result, but put your team in position to influence it with your performance.
 
Pathetic player, he is well on his way to become the next Ahmad Shehzad for Pakistan well Shehzad has top notch fitness Babar won't even have that.
 
No point in scoring where game and series is done. Like scoring 80 runs when Aus puts 600+ and Pakistan is guaranteed to lose or when series is already 0-2. Those are soft runs.

Greatness is defined by how you perform in strong opposition's den when match/series is alive. You may not be able to control the result, but put your team in position to influence it with your performance.
He's never going to be at miandad/inzy/YK levels of greatness for us, I think we as fans need to accept that. All I want is for him to find his flow again however those runs come.
 
Maybe a good ball and a good attack. It's cricket

If you actually saw the dismissal, it was poor from Babar. He just had a lazy poke against a medium pace bowler.

Not a bad ball, but Babar had plenty of time to adjust against a gentle pace delivery.

Basically made Mitchell Marsh look like Glenn McGrath.
 
If you actually saw the dismissal, it was poor from Babar. He just had a lazy poke against a medium pace bowler.

Not a bad ball, but Babar had plenty of time to adjust against a gentle pace delivery.

Basically made Mitchell Marsh look like Glenn McGrath.
He has too many soft dismissals. It's been a real problem for a while
 
If you actually saw the dismissal, it was poor from Babar. He just had a lazy poke against a medium pace bowler.

Not a bad ball, but Babar had plenty of time to adjust against a gentle pace delivery.

Basically made Mitchell Marsh look like Glenn McGrath.
but no doubt that ball was extra ordinary bowled by marsh.

7 out of 10 times a batsman will get out on such delivery.
 
Babar Azam was facing a beautiful line and length from Cummins and eventually, he ended up giving his wicket to him. Gone after scoring just 14. Failure yet again.
 
Have a look at the ball grouping from Cummins to Babar. Fabulous stuff and consistancy to get rid of Babar.

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Kohli has played Starc, Hazelwood, Cummins, Siddle, Ryan Harris, Mitchel Johnson and bossed all of them on Australian wickets.

Babar is a complete timid overhyped joke in comparison. Mark my words, now that he is no longer captain, unless he gets lucky with having to play against minnows or C, D sides of the top 4-5 teams, he is going to get further exposed for the utter hype job that he is.
 
He got a brute of a ball in the 2nd innings. But it is the failure of his first innings which is a concern. He was batting in relatively easy conditions with top 3 had already done their job. Could have and should have scored a 100 there.
 
Babar Azam in Tests in 2023:

Innings - 7.
Runs - 163.
Average -23.14.
Fifties -0.
Hundreds - 0.
 
Congratulations to all the fans who hated Babar Azam’s captaincy!
 
Kohli has played Starc, Hazelwood, Cummins, Siddle, Ryan Harris, Mitchel Johnson and bossed all of them on Australian wickets.

Babar is a complete timid overhyped joke in comparison. Mark my words, now that he is no longer captain, unless he gets lucky with having to play against minnows or C, D sides of the top 4-5 teams, he is going to get further exposed for the utter hype job that he is.
Is it fair to compare Babar's output with Kohli's output? Totally different class, so I don't think it's fair to Babar.

Having said that, Babar has been pretty much footnote so far when playing outside of Pakistan. No knock of any substances which can help his team. I think he is better than that, but he is 30 years old now without anything substantial.
 
Is it fair to compare Babar's output with Kohli's output? Totally different class, so I don't think it's fair to Babar.

Having said that, Babar has been pretty much footnote so far when playing outside of Pakistan. No knock of any substances which can help his team. I think he is better than that, but he is 30 years old now without anything substantial.

Not really fair, Kohli for a while had been a mid tier Batsman while Babar dominated across formats. Now you all come out the woods to pump the miniature chests after he regained form, acting like he won you the World Cup :(
 
Babar literally has no accomplishments in his test career other than that century against SL where Naseem batted with him.
Babar has managed to draw Karachi test match against Australia, that was the biggest match saving innings he played in his overall test career. In my opinion Babar has failed to make any impart for Pak team in all big tournaments of limited overs cricket. He has played 2 ODI WCs, 2 T20 WCs & 3 Asia cups and doesn't have any accomplishment.
 
THE WORLD WILL ONCE AGAIN SEE THIS OVERRATED, OVERHYPED, FLAT TRACK BULLY AND MINNOW BASHER EXPOSED AS HE WAS IN THE WORLD CUP.:ROFLMAO: TWO DISMAL PERFORMANCES WITH THE BAT IN THE FIRST TEST. FOUR MORE FAILURES ARE HIGHLY LIKELY. HIS NUMBER ONE STATUS CAME BY SCORING AGAINST LOW QUALITY TEAMS LIKE NEPAL, ZIMBABWE , IRELAND AND WEST INDIES. (y) :ROFLMAO:
 
Not really fair, Kohli for a while had been a mid tier Batsman while Babar dominated across formats. Now you all come out the woods to pump the miniature chests after he regained form, acting like he won you the World Cup :(

Kohli is better than any batsman Pakistan has ever produced and Babar never was and never will be anywhere near him.
 
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You would expect Babar to average 50 runs on this tour irrespective of the results. His poor form has now gone for a long time across formats. And nothing is being done about it.

But we have posts showing he's bought a new car, new clothes shopping and what not.
 
Is it fair to compare Babar's output with Kohli's output? Totally different class, so I don't think it's fair to Babar.
It's fair because that was not a random made up comparison. Well paid pr, media, a toxic fanclub & the board itself marketed this outrageous ridiculous comparison for last four years, the entire reign of his not so pleasant captaincy aka lordship over Pak cricket. Now that he has been exposed & embarrassed as nothing but a hype job of the highest con artistry, it's time both he & his army of stooges face the music.
Having said that, Babar has been pretty much footnote so far when playing outside of Pakistan. No knock of any substances which can help his team. I think he is better than that, but he is 30 years old now without anything substantial.
 
Torrid last few months for him, mentally cluttered. Best bet would be to go all guns blazing in the next couple of tests, counterattack will work best for him like he managed against Steyn and co. in SA earlier.
 
It's fair because that was not a random made up comparison. Well paid pr, media, a toxic fanclub & the board itself marketed this outrageous ridiculous comparison for last four years, the entire reign of his not so pleasant captaincy aka lordship over Pak cricket. Now that he has been exposed & embarrassed as nothing but a hype job of the highest con artistry, it's time both he & his army of stooges face the music.

Fans will be fans and also we have many who don't understand any cricket. Having said that PCB shouldn't have tried that.

Babar has like 1-2 away ton so far and his career is half done. I think he is better than that. He is not anywhere top tier batsmen who can dominate multiple away series against tough oppositions but better than his output so far. I mean he is surely capable of making some contribution in tough situations, but it's getting late now in his career.
 
Torrid last few months for him, mentally cluttered. Best bet would be to go all guns blazing in the next couple of tests, counterattack will work best for him like he managed against Steyn and co. in SA earlier.
For him to go all guns blazing, Australia will have to bowl regularly in his comfort/scoring zones. They are far well prepared this time to not let that happen.

Will Babar go out of his comfort zone? I know the answer to this question
 
For him to go all guns blazing, Australia will have to bowl regularly in his comfort/scoring zones. They are far well prepared this time to not let that happen.

Will Babar go out of his comfort zone? I know the answer to this question
Aus is still a good place for him to bat given his weakness against spin and lack of turning tracks in Aus.
 
Not his fault that his fanbase have tried portraying him as something he is not. He never was nor will be a tier 1 batsman.
But are the Australian players also his fan base, what about the Ind players? Or maybe the pundits on the international scene are they all wrong.
 
Aus is still a good place for him to bat given his weakness against spin and lack of turning tracks in Aus.
It's not as if he is special against proper fast bowling. He is so ridiculously poor against spin that it often deserts our minds that he is equally pathetic if not more against pace. I mean Marsh is the exact kind of bowler that is up his alley & guess what the dude jobbed to his trundling movements. The way Wood bullied him last year on those carpet roads of Pindi,Lahore etc was a sight to behold. I have never ever witnessed a "top" batsman handling genuine pace so poorly & helplessly like that.
 
Bro we been saying this since asia cup & t20 worldcup 2022. Nobody listens
I beleive at this stage & time almost everybody listens & silently agrees. It's just that nobody wants to admit how they were duped by arguably the biggest pr con job of all time. Personally I had reached my conclusion regarding the guy back in 21 wc. He was soft, harmless, impactless,selfish, mediocre & full on statpadding mode. After then I simply stopped expecting anything substantial or truly significant from him.
Two years later not only he has proven me right but due to his arrogance, lazyness & toxic fanbases' overhyped lip service he has regressed far more than I anticipated.
 
Aus is still a good place for him to bat given his weakness against spin and lack of turning tracks in Aus.

Well there’s Lyon who’s playing in home conditions. I haven’t looked at the stats deeply but he’s got out Babar five times since 2016.
 
Well there’s Lyon who’s playing in home conditions. I haven’t looked at the stats deeply but he’s got out Babar five times since 2016.
I beleive at this stage & time almost everybody listens & silently agrees. It's just that nobody wants to admit how they were duped by arguably the biggest pr con job of all time. Personally I had reached my conclusion regarding the guy back in 21 wc. He was soft, harmless, impactless,selfish, mediocre & full on statpadding mode. After then I simply stopped expecting anything substantial or truly significant from him.
Two years later not only he has proven me right but due to his arrogance, lazyness & toxic fanbases' overhyped lip service he has regressed far more than I anticipated.

Yah, he is not that good against top class pace as well, but I think he is really poor against top class spin on turning tracks. Aus has true bounce and I think he can score some runs in Aus. Perth is probably the hardest, but it should get easier in the next two tests.

Lyon is surely a top class spinner and does well in Aus, but it's far easier to handle him in Aus than playing a top class spinner on turning tracks. Aus has a very good bowling attack so yah, hiding is hard if there is something for bowlers in pitch.

Anyway, he is a good batsman, but not a top tier for me. I have not seen him doing anything to put him there. He has already played 50 tests and plenty of shorter format tournaments without showing anything.

Hope he does something in the next match to help his team when series is live.
 
Cummins bowled 16 balls in the exact same spot to Babar yesterday.
A top batsman is expected to make adjustments and counter that so that the bowler doesn't settle into that line and length. But Babar didn't even try that. He was neither going back nor forward, was standing like a tree.
That is one part of his test batsmanship where he needs to evolve.
 
A subcontinent batsman with just a 1 Test century outside Asia can never be on top of the world.

Babar was never on top of the world. Bulling B and C attacks in white ball cricket created the perception that he is the best batsman in the world and his PR and cult fans wouldn’t shut up.

He never was and never will be the best batsman in the world in any format. No doubt he is an excellent batsman, but the best Pakistan have had in a very long time, but he is not as good as his fans think.

For years, Pakistan felt the pain of watching Kohli while they had the likes of Umar and Shehzad to offer in return. Pakistan needed a batting superstar. When Babar emerged they forced him into a comparison with Kohli even though they was never a comparison in the first place.

He is a quality player in his own right - it is not his fault that he doesn’t have the talent, the skill and the mentality of Kohli.
 
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A subcontinent batsman with just a 1 Test century outside Asia can never be on top of the world.

Babar was never on top of the world. Bulling B and C attacks in white ball cricket created the perception that he is the best batsman in the world and his PR and cult fans wouldn’t shut up.

He never was and never will be the best batsman in the world in any format. No doubt he is an excellent batsman, but the best Pakistan have had in a very long time, but he is not as good as his fans think.

For years, Pakistan felt the pain of watching Kohli while they had the likes of Umar and Shehzad to offer in return. Pakistan needed a batting superstar. When Babar emerged they forced him into a comparison with Kohli even though they was never a comparison in the first place.

He is a quality player in his own right - it is not his fault that he doesn’t have the talent, the skill and the mentality of Kohli.
I can name a number of batsmen who were excellent besides Kohli in the playing XI of India, such as Sehwag, Sachin, Yuvraj, Dhoni, Raina, and Rohit etc. Can you name anyone with equal or similar abilities to Babar in a playing XI? I guess only Fakhar, to some extent. Kohli was supported well by his team mates and he had that attitude which only few will get. Babar on the other hand was/is a lone warrior, leader of the batting unit.
 
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I can name a number of batsmen who were excellent besides Kohli in the playing XI of India, such as Sehwag, Sachin, Yuvraj, Dhoni, Raina, and Rohit etc. Can you name anyone with equal or similar abilities to Babar in a playing XI? I guess only Fakhar, to some extent. Kohli was supported well by his team mates and he had that attitude which only few will get. Babar on the other hand was/is a lone warrior, leader of the batting unit.

But what good is he, if he cannot win us matches or atleast save them!?
 
I can name a number of batsmen who were excellent besides Kohli in the playing XI of India, such as Sehwag, Sachin, Yuvraj, Dhoni, Raina, and Rohit etc. Can you name anyone with equal or similar abilities to Babar in a playing XI? I guess only Fakhar, to some extent. Kohli was supported well by his team mates and he had that attitude which only few will get. Babar on the other hand was/is a lone warrior, leader of the batting unit.
Babar isn’t struggling because of others. He is struggling because he is not as good as his fans portray him to be.

In fact, Babar isn’t struggling. He is playing as per his abilities. The problem is that his fans overestimate his abilities.
 
But what good is he, if he cannot win us matches or atleast save them!?
He has won us enough matches, but people's expectations are too high. He is good and the best we have in our cricketing system at the moment. However, expecting him to win every match single-handedly is not justifiable. Other players need to provide support as well.
 
My number 1 Babar innings was that 60 odd he scored against SA with those 6-7 boundaries off Steyn. The one time I fell in love with Bobby. That was epic.
 
Babar isn’t struggling because of others. He is struggling because he is not as good as his fans portray him to be.

In fact, Babar isn’t struggling. He is playing as per his abilities. The problem is that his fans overestimate his abilities.
He performed well whenever he get support from rizwan or fakhar or any batter. He has performed exceptionally well initially in ODI's which made his fans go crazy. Now its not his problem if we get less competetive matches against top teams.
 
A subcontinent batsman with just a 1 Test century outside Asia can never be on top of the world.

Babar was never on top of the world. Bulling B and C attacks in white ball cricket created the perception that he is the best batsman in the world and his PR and cult fans wouldn’t shut up.

He never was and never will be the best batsman in the world in any format. No doubt he is an excellent batsman, but the best Pakistan have had in a very long time, but he is not as good as his fans think.

For years, Pakistan felt the pain of watching Kohli while they had the likes of Umar and Shehzad to offer in return. Pakistan needed a batting superstar. When Babar emerged they forced him into a comparison with Kohli even though they was never a comparison in the first place.

He is a quality player in his own right - it is not his fault that he doesn’t have the talent, the skill and the mentality of Kohli.

Babar actually struggles to score tons outside of Pakistan, let alone Asia.

He has only small tons - 1 each in Sri Lanka and the UAE. Not even a daddy ton (150 +)

Pakistani pitches are so flat and easy to bat on that even Ish Sodhi and Mohammad Wasim Jnr. have scored 65 and 43 on the same pitch that Babar scored 161.

Only on such pitches does he look like Bradman. He's an average Test batter everywhere else
 
If Babar’s career was to end right now…the one achievement that I think he did make up to this point was making Dale Steyn realise that his international career is over. He did do this.
 
As the Boxing Day Test (2nd Test between Pakistan and Australia at MCG) approaches , it's noteworthy that a year has elapsed since Babar Azam last notched up a Test century. The anticipation is high as cricket enthusiasts wonder if the iconic MCG will be the stage for Babar Azam to break this Test century drought.
 
On the first day of the second Test against Australia, Babar Azam caught the ball in an impressive way to dismiss David Warner in the slips. Babar showed how quick and accurate he is in the slips.

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That was best chance for him to score impactful runs but he missed big apportunity .a hundred at MCG would have end drought of Pakistan win in Australia
 
Baba's 2023 so far (one innings to go)

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Failed in first inning of boxing day test.
Now he has only one inning remaining this year.
 
Babar Azam's record by calaneder year in test matches. Averaging 20 this year in red ball cricket.

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No doubt, the ball was good but there was too much gap between bat and pad.
Poor from Babar.
 
Babar has been poor throughout this year in almost every format. He should be given some rest though. He should not play all matches in NZ T20 series.
 
If he doesn’t get a 50 in the next 3 innings I would put him in the umar akmal bracket, wouldn’t drop him though as his replacement will be equally as pathetic.
 
If he doesn’t get a 50 in the next 3 innings I would put him in the umar akmal bracket, wouldn’t drop him though as his replacement will be equally as pathetic.
Well TBH tests should not be the format where he gets the golden boy treatment. PEople like Kamran Ghulam even Omair yousuf have done reasonably well in recent times and there is no reason why they can't outperform babar in tests
 
If he doesn’t get a 50 in the next 3 innings I would put him in the umar akmal bracket, wouldn’t drop him though as his replacement will be equally as pathetic.
How would Kamran Ghulam be worse than him right now?
 
How would Kamran Ghulam be worse than him right now?
Exactly he's not in same bracket like Younis Khan who always had a daddy hundred per series in him despite looking awful many times. With Babar we can almost guarantee he won't be scoring anything meaningful in this series.
 
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