That's why cricket pundits talk a lot about bat angles—this is how Babar Azam lost his wicket after scoring 52 off 71 in the 3rd ODI against South Africa.
He does play slow innings in odi but he is still keeping his ave 56
SR of 73 when every other batsman had 100 plus SR.
Still not back to his best but still provided a great platform for the lower order hitters to go full throttle.
Back to back fifties for Babar at a time when he’s not yet fully back to his best form. Just imagine what he’ll be capable of when he’s in full flow.
Would be great to retire in Tests with exactly 4000 runs
Not possible, his test career is finished. Should save grace and try his level best to ensure he becomes an odi great and plays one days only
Touted = to Bradman by ramiz raja
Can he even reach 5?No way this man is going to reach 10K runs in Test cricket
Miandad is test best for Pak even Saeed Anwar in test is in different league than Babar. Babar should focus on t20 and odi
Why should he focus on T20i?
He has a legacy to flourish.
Everyone knows he won't even make a 50.
Let's be hopeful.
What did wc 2019 expose? That he had the best ever wc campaign for a Pakistani debutant? He was comfortably better than every single English batter in the group stages.Only Roys and stokes clutch innings in the knockouts pulled them ahead tho.
What are you even on about
I alr said roy and stokes were better. Your argument for root and bairstow being better is that they have lower avg, basically the same sr and 70-80 more runs in 3 more innings? Babar was clueless against India Aus but root was clueless against Aus+India+nz. He literally farmed the bottom 5 teams more than Babar but your bias doesn't allow you to see that. Even his semi final innings was decent but wasn't consequential at all. Then he went ahead and flopped in the final. Bairstow also failed both time against aus. Failed in both knockouts, failed against Pak. Butter literally only performed in 3/11 matches. All 3 were monstrous performances though.
They also have 2 more centuries and bairstow doesn't have basically the same sr. A 91 sr vs 86 in odi is a massive massive difference. One that people don't recognise the value of.
Based on your own logic root is worse? His sr is 85 and babars is 88, massive massive difference. And his extra century came against the west Indies. That's basically the same as Babars 96 against Bangladesh. I can hear the argument of Bairstow being better because of his twin centuries against Ind Aus but root is laughable
What was Babar's score was WI? The same team that you're making fun of? Infact what score was Pakistan bowled out for again?
No need to hype up the second worst team in the tournament just because their was a freak result. Clutching at straws here. Sa beat the champions Aus in the 2023 wc and Netherlands beat Sa. Does that makes Babars runs in the 2022 Netherland series suddenly significant?
Not just debutant. The amount of runs Babar scored in WC 19 are still the highest by any Pakistan in the World Cup history.
If a clueless Babar is scoring 35,49 runs, imagine the amount of runs a Babar who has clues would score and have scored. You have answers in your own argument that defies what you're trying to prove. Babar averaged 68 at 88 in WC 2019. That is better than Root who averaged 61 at 89 while playing in the home conditions.
I rate his today's inning a very meaningful in the context, only second to Saud that has given a slim chance to Pakistan. Way to go Babar Azam. Finally scoring in the most respected format of the game.
what is your sample size?
Way way too big or too long to list them, but I'll name some of them, not ranked in any order and I can't bother naming all of em.
Also please stop defending babar and rizwan and misbah all the time and maybe try focusing on good cricketers for once, or maybe try revisiting eras and actually watching inzi, yousaf, saeed or others bat.
Basically that's most of his hero Travis Head innings who is a tullaybaaz. These so called Australian fans know nothing about Babar and will just criticize him for no reason. See how the Australian commentators talk about Babar and see how these 1.5 posters talk about him.
Na i asked him, cause he only started wtaching cricket after 2015. So was quite curious what exactly is his sample size
Guess Babar Azam is a wicket keeper just like Hodge.
Its funny how he talks about worst test innings ever, and he didnt even watch this games.
Some posters have zero knowledge of stats or how statsguru works.
Prove your claim about 2015
As I said, this is only the start. 2025 and the next few years will be the best period of his career across all formats.
Seems to be regaining his form. 5 fifties in last 6 innings in SA. But needs to convert into bigger scores.
Threat from concentration
How does it feel knowing the guy you rated > Warner or infact pretty much 90% of batters to ever play the game hasn't scored a century since 30th August 2023? In any format?Threat from concentration
All players have a lean patch. Don't worry you won't have to wait long. Class is permanent. Hard to predict the future but he will get one within the coming 3 months iA.
of course, we all know that he has/was been going through a slump. Put some more salt on it, he has played very little Test and ODI cricket in the time frame you have mentioned. But good thing that he is regaining his form across formats. What better than if he is saving his centuries for the Champions Trophy?
