WHy not??? they reached fina with almost the same middle order having Shan Masood in the middle and IFFI and Shadab were also there. But they reached the final.
Bowling was also not weak this time, amir and Imad were hyped to moon being the best bowlers so why not their inclusion could not change anything. They should have made some difference at least.
Don't you think so?
Imad's batting is this and that but he bottled that India game and there is no debate about the fact that he is the main contributor for that loss, including the other batters as well.
Amir bottled that super over as well, should have done better than that forget about keeper, he himself was bowling wides at least not expecting such an over from him.
Both Imad and AMir were good overall since their comeback but all the hype was off no use to the team. We did even worst with them than last time.
First of in 2021 and 2022 the tournament was a shortened format and it was covid era, Alot of sides got injured and didn't play full strength.
2022 Australia was a burnt corpse of a side, India had half their side injured with even Bumrah being out of commission for nearly 2 years.
Secondly to qualify you just needed to top your group to get into semi's and Pakistan was fortunate to not deal with most if not all of SENA before semi's, Ontop of which rain affetected sa vs Zimbabwe and rain helping Pakistan against sa played a huge role.
Lastly the bowling in 2022 is what carried us through and through, and to be fair to Shan and Haris, Their infinitely better at 3 and 4 then usman khan and Fakhar.
Fakhar is not a no 4 plain and simple and this WC proved it.
2024 WC squad was the weakest Pakistan ever sent in its entirety with corpse bowlers, non existent mo and babar and rizwan failing at the top as usual.
As for imad and amir, very easy to scapegoat them and avoid others, Who told shaheen to drop Jones of Amir, who told babar to play like a snail in Dallas, who told rizwan to cross bat against Bumrah etc etc.
biggest culprit of usa was babar for his innings, Poor captaincy and not even showing his face in SO and not bowling naseem who was the best bowler.
Biggest culprit against India was rizwan.
^^ but obviously no one will highlight these 2 darlings of Pakistan just like no one talked about these 2 in 2022