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Selfish batting of Babar Azam will not let him fulfill his potential

Ab Fan said:
He will forever be considered just a very good limited over batsman because he doesn't have the versatility and ruthlessness to hit the top level.

His legacy will be decided by what he does in tests. If he can play some memorable test knocks and average 50+ in test cricket, he will go down as one of Pakistan's best ever.
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Very true.
 
When Babar looks good, he looks untouchable.

When he looks bad, he looks hideous.

There's often no in-between and you can tell how his innings will pan out from the 4-5 deliveries he faces. This, so far, is one of the bad innings.
 
Definitely not a good inning in play tonight. They have a good enough batting lineup to cope with early wicket fall but still Babar is not being pushed to go hard from the start.
 
Another poor knock. Regardless of whether karachi win or lose from here. Like I said earlier. I’m ok with these match losing and soft knocks in the PSL but I don’t wanna see this from Babar in international cricket. This is where stats really lie. He has good stats but he’s played absolutely terribly throughout this tournament. Got dropped thrice today too
 
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Strikes at 170 in last 4 overs in PSL. So he should definitely be told to take early risks even if it means getting out early
 
Don't know when the trope of him being a selfish player will stop.

The problem arises because people want him to be their version of De Villiers or Kohli when he's much closer to Amla. Have always said this right from his debut. The sooner people come to terms with that, the better. Amla was a damn good consistent player too, nothing to be scoffed at.
 
Not at his best today.

Struggled to time the ball and his placement wasn't as good as it normally is.

Strike-rate 134 in the PSL.
 
Excellent average of 69.25 in PSL6, but should the strike-rate of 132.53 be better?
 
Saj said:
Excellent average of 69.25 in PSL6, but should the strike-rate of 132.53 be better?
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Tbh sr of 132 is really good for an accumulator. But stats don't show how selfish he was.

He mostly played with sr of 115-120 for almost 40+ deliveries, creating pressure on other batsmen. Then when match is already lost, he hits few boundaries towards the end to end up with a "decent" sr. It is how Dhoni used to play towards the end of his career
 
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Babar_Azam_fan said:
Tbh sr of 132 is really good for an accumulator. But stats don't show how selfish he was.

He mostly played with sr of 115-120 for almost 40+ deliveries, creating pressure on other batsmen. Then when match is already lost, he hits few boundaries towards the end to end up with a "decent" sr. It is how Dhoni used to play towards the end of his career
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He opened with sharjeel that was his job and sharjeel job was to excelerate.
 
132.53 is a good SR.

But need to contextualize as per actual match situation. I haven't watched him bat at all since Pakistan's last test matches so Pakistanis know better than me how he has been batting.
 
YousafTheBeast said:
Babar plays for himself, Sharjeel plays for the team.

Sharjeel takes risks, Babar plays it safe.
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This is hilarious and probably the most stupid post I’ve ever read on Pak passion and there has been plenty of them.

Sharjeel the match fixers plays for the team and babar is selfish and plays for himself? That makes perfect sense.

They are very different type of players, Babar is an accumulator and does his best for the team. He isn’t a big ball hitter and hasn’t ever been. That is not what is expected of him, that is Sharjeel’s job. Babar is expected to hold anchor one end and accumulate and the other end strike.

On the other end we have an over weight match fixer - according to you he plays strictly for the team. He had had one 50 and one 100 in the tournament. I am not disputing that he hasn’t got the potential to be a good batsmen for Pakistan but if you look at his fitness and how many big totals he’s got. You think that’s a man dedicated and focused on playing for the team? Sharjeel can score fast and big - but he hasn’t done this tournament consistently, he needs to apply himself better. It doesn’t mean because he is the aggressor he should throw his wicket away time and time again. I guess his dedication to the team doesn’t let him apply himself to make big runs consistently
 
He is not selfish. He is just not as good as his fans think. He is a solid but low impact player.

Anyone who compares his talent and skill to the likes of Kohli and Rohit needs to get his head checked, or he has very low cricketing acumen.

He never was and never will be in their league.
 
I was on a hiking trip so missed the last 3 games. Just caught all the highlights. Another match losing 50 it seems. Can someone teach this guy how to bat in T20 cricket
 
Wasim Akram speaking at KPL draft:

“They [Pakistan batsmen] need to look at the top batsmen in the world and learn from how they approach their game. We have Babar Azam and Rizwan is in good nick as well but I think Babar needs to improve his dot ball percentage in the first six overs. The players need to evolve especially with so much T20 cricket being played"

“We have had six PSL seasons but can you name one batsman which came through the emerging category. Haider Ali’s name came up but he is not consistent. Hafeez is 40 odd, he is physically very fit and part of the team. I’m happy that he is playing well, although currently he is out of form. If there was any other good batsman, he would have been replaced but that’s not the case"

“Batting doesn’t mean that you have to hit a six on every ball. You have to pick your bowler, spot and opposition along with situation awareness. A coach won’t tell you about situation awareness, it comes from the intelligence within players and they need to learn that"
 
Mamoon said:
He is not selfish. He is just not as good as his fans think. He is a solid but low impact player.

Anyone who compares his talent and skill to the likes of Kohli and Rohit needs to get his head checked, or he has very low cricketing acumen.

He never was and never will be in their league.
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No one compares him with Rohit Sharma. People only compare him with Kohli.

No need Yo unnecessarily bring in Rohit in every discussion :)
 
MenInG said:
Wasim Akram speaking at KPL draft:

“They [Pakistan batsmen] need to look at the top batsmen in the world and learn from how they approach their game. We have Babar Azam and Rizwan is in good nick as well but I think Babar needs to improve his dot ball percentage in the first six overs. The players need to evolve especially with so much T20 cricket being played"

“We have had six PSL seasons but can you name one batsman which came through the emerging category. Haider Ali’s name came up but he is not consistent. Hafeez is 40 odd, he is physically very fit and part of the team. I’m happy that he is playing well, although currently he is out of form. If there was any other good batsman, he would have been replaced but that’s not the case"

“Batting doesn’t mean that you have to hit a six on every ball. You have to pick your bowler, spot and opposition along with situation awareness. A coach won’t tell you about situation awareness, it comes from the intelligence within players and they need to learn that"
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And that is exactly what I thought a coach should be doing! The guys who have the potential to play for Pakistan most likely would have some raw skills but they would lack the intelligence to make use of those skills at the right time, this is where you work with the guys and throw scenarios at them and get them to work out the tactics.
 
Saj said:
Excellent average of 69.25 in PSL6, but should the strike-rate of 132.53 be better?
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Brendan McCullum considered one of the greatest t20 batters had a SR of 136 in both domestic and international t20s. Faf Du Plessis has t20i SR of 134 and t20 SR of 128 and he is one of the biggest names in franchise cricket.

Babar's problems are he starts slow, gets to his fifty, and only then would he start showing urgency to pace things up. He needs to start doing that much earlier.
 
Wasim Akram is totally right, Babar needs to make sure that he is extremely quick on his feet in the powerplay.

The last thing you want is to consume deliveries and then get out.

There are just a few simple adjustments he needs to make, particularly in situations where he can lift the ball over the infield instead of trying to hit everything along the ground.

Bowlers who keep it on off-stump trouble Babar in T20Is, so he needs to figure out or make a shot to get off strike against that type of bowling, either just bashing it down the ground or advancing to the ball.

Right now, he's scoring fifties from 35-ish balls, but if he improves his dot ball percentage, that can easily go down to 30 balls.
 
Wasim akram is spot on .
Not sure why he is getting backlash for speaking facts.
Babar is playing outdated and selfish game almost 8 out of 10 times.
 
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Numbers alone don't tell the whole story.

KL Rahul had better S/R than Rohit and Virat in the last IPL but a majority of his innings contributed to the other team's success because he would completely waste the powerplay and by the time he started accelerating at the back end (which failed 2/3rds of the time), the match would be already lost as the team would be well behind the 8-ball and all the other batsman would be out slogging to compensate or just coming in in the death overs with high required run rates.

Batting slow can get you a lot of slow runs which the other team isn't trying hard to stop anyway but will lose matches.
 
BunnyRabbit said:
Brendan McCullum considered one of the greatest t20 batters had a SR of 136 in both domestic and international t20s. Faf Du Plessis has t20i SR of 134 and t20 SR of 128 and he is one of the biggest names in franchise cricket.

Babar's problems are he starts slow, gets to his fifty, and only then would he start showing urgency to pace things up. He needs to start doing that much earlier.
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Maybe he should drop down to 3 when the field is abit more spread out I belive in the opening powerplay he's strike rate was about 100 and it increased after the powerplay.
 
Snowflake said:
No one compares him with Rohit Sharma. People only compare him with Kohli.

No need Yo unnecessarily bring in Rohit in every discussion :)
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People regularly compare him to Kohli but they forget that he is not even as good as the second best Indian batsman, let alone the best Indian batsman who also happens to be better than anyone Pakistan has ever produced.
 
Babar needs to improve his dot ball percentage in the first six overs
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Wasim's hit the nail on the head.

Babar quite often is playing catch-up in terms of his strike-rate. Sometimes he catches up, but other times the number of dot balls he has played early in his innings leaves him with an uphill task to get his strike-rate to what it should have been.
 
Babar was the worst batsman of this PSL because he lost his team multiple games single handedly. Unfortunately Pakistani fans are clueless about batting and are overexcited about the fact that we have miraculously produced a proper all format batsman so they have started doing all sorts of mental gymnastics to defend him when he plays poorly.

But like I’ve said many times. I don’t care what he does in the PSL as long as he plays properly for Pakistan.
 
Wasim Akram speaking at KPL draft:

“They [Pakistan batsmen] need to look at the top batsmen in the world and learn from how they approach their game. We have Babar Azam and Rizwan is in good nick as well but I think Babar needs to improve his dot ball percentage in the first six overs. The players need to evolve especially with so much T20 cricket being played"
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When Wasim is so clueless, you can see why KK struggled. He has absolutely zero idea about how his team is supposed to function and what their shortcomings are.

The average dot ball percentage in the powerplay in PSL6 was 48%. Babar's was 43%. A few batsmen like Rizwan were better, but not many. The real correlation is with boundary hitting. Babar averaged more than 6.5 balls per boundary in PSL6, which was easily among the lowest alongside Malik and Fakhar. Last season, Babar's balls per boundary was closer to 5.5, while he generally goes at around 5 balls per boundary in T20 cricket since the past couple of years. He wasn't at his best this season plus the team was trash.

In Karachi, this was fine except for that one really poor knock, and he made up for that in the next two games with good innings. That was because they had Clarke and Nabi coming in and scoring at good rates to remove the pressure. In Abu Dhabi, it didn't work because the other batsmen were jokers, and Babar was solely responsible for the run-scoring.

KK need to decide about the type of lineup they want. They can't not have any aggressive batsmen around Babar. That's literally rule #1 when you have such an anchor in your team. Instead of pairing him up with an attacking opener, they traded Hales to keep Sharjeel at the top. Sharjeel's powerplay strike rate is less than 120 since his return. He is NOT an attacking powerplay batsman anymore.

With such great "minds" at the helm at KK, it's easy to see why they went in to the UAE leg with three glorified anchors up top followed by zero middle order attackers. And played Guptill at #3 where he averages 18 @ 100.

Back to Wasim's point. If Babar played 10 fewer dot balls in the powerplay all season, his dot ball percentage would easily be the lowest. But I don't think KK's season would have ended any differently if he had taken 10 singles there. Did I mention Sharjeel's dot ball percentage was almost 55%?

Yet with all these faults in their batting, their bowling was actually the worst aspect of their team. Hopefully Wasim is aware of that.
 
shamaan said:
Maybe he should drop down to 3 when the field is abit more spread out I belive in the opening powerplay he's strike rate was about 100 and it increased after the powerplay.
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Nah he is better off opening. He would be batting below 100 if he were to come after PP. There won't be many boundaries on offer then and Babar can't simply take on the bowlers from the go. Jason Roy isn't a slogger and relies on drives rather than slogs to fetch boundaries earlier on. Babar needs to improve.
 
BunnyRabbit said:
Nah he is better off opening. He would be batting below 100 if he were to come after PP. There won't be many boundaries on offer then and Babar can't simply take on the bowlers from the go. Jason Roy isn't a slogger and relies on drives rather than slogs to fetch boundaries earlier on. Babar needs to improve.
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But thiers more singles on offer when the field spreads.
 
This is now Babar Azam's highest score in ODIs. Previous highest was 125 which he made against West Indies in 2017 and against Zimbabwe last year in Rawalpindi.
 
Babar Azam today:

First 50 runs off 72 balls
Next 50 runs off 32 balls
 
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Babar Azam today:

First 50 runs off 72 balls
Second 50 runs off 32 balls
Third 50 runs off 30 balls
 
Pakistan captain Babar Azam After has roared back to form with a potential match-winning hundred against England in the third and final ODI on Tuesday. Babar scored a career-best 158 off 139 balls to propel Pakistan to an imposing 331/9 at Edgbaston. After twin failures in the ongoing series, Babar scored his 14th century (81 innings) in ODI cricket. He became the fastest batsman to notch up 14 ODI centuries in terms of innings.

Courtesy of this knock, the 26-year-old has surpassed a number of modern-day greats – Hashim Amla, David Warner and India captain Virat Kohli to achieve the unique record. Before Babar, Amla was the quickest to score 14 ODI tons, the Protea had taken 84 innings to reach the landmark, while Warner took 98 innings to achieve the same. Kohli, with whom Babar has often been compared, has taken 103 innings to score 14 centuries in the 50-over format. Also Read - Ben Stokes Hails England Football Team After Euro 2020 Final Loss vs Italy, Calls Them Absolute Legends

This was also Babar’s highest One Day International score. This knock of Babar also saw him registering the highest score for a Pakistan batsman in an ODI against England. Babar is also currently the number one ranked batsman in ICC’s ODI Player Rankings. Also Read - India's Chances in T20 World Cup Will Double if Hardik Pandya is Fit: Saba Karim

Babar was disappointed with the bat in the first two ODIs against England, but he went on to change the script in the third and final ODI.

Sent into bat first, Pakistan lost the wicket of Fakhar Zaman (6) in just the fifth over. However, Babar, Imam-ul-Haq and Mohammad Rizwan rallied the ship for Pakistan.

Imam and Rizwan played knocks of 56 and 74 respectively. In the end, Pakistan posted a score of 331/9 in the allotted fifty overs. For England, Brydon Carse scalped five wickets while Saqib Mahmood returned with three wickets.

https://www.india.com/sports/cricke...me-fastest-to-score-14-odi-centuries-4811324/
 
Saj said:
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Babar Azam today:

First 50 runs off 72 balls
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Third 50 runs off 30 balls
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It was a good knock and frankly this is his ceiling. At his absolute best he can get from, 51 to 150 in about 60 balls. That's pretty much Virat Johli's ceiling too.

Only ABD, Hitman and just maybe Guptil, Stokes can blast from 51 to 150 runs in around 35-40 deliveries currently. If any of the above mentioned guys hit 150 +, its pretty much game over for the oppposition.

Virat, Babar's 150+ will never make the total out of reach for anyone.
 
freelance_cricketer said:
It was a good knock and frankly this is his ceiling. At his absolute best he can get from, 51 to 150 in about 60 balls. That's pretty much Virat Johli's ceiling too.

Only ABD, Hitman and just maybe Guptil, Stokes can blast from 51 to 150 runs in around 35-40 deliveries currently. If any of the above mentioned guys hit 150 +, its pretty much game over for the oppposition.

Virat, Babar's 150+ will never make the total out of reach for anyone.
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True.

But Rohit did play a similar knock in Perth.

170 in Perth which India lost.

Slow start leading to insane hitting.

Wasnt enough in the end.
 
freelance_cricketer said:
It was a good knock and frankly this is his ceiling. At his absolute best he can get from, 51 to 150 in about 60 balls. That's pretty much Virat Johli's ceiling too.

Only ABD, Hitman and just maybe Guptil, Stokes can blast from 51 to 150 runs in around 35-40 deliveries currently. If any of the above mentioned guys hit 150 +, its pretty much game over for the oppposition.

Virat, Babar's 150+ will never make the total out of reach for anyone.
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Comparing Babar to Virat isn't a good exercise. Virat wins games for India both as a batsman and as a captain. He has demonstrated in all formats an ability to dominate the opposition.

Babar is a really good batsman with potential to be great. But he's not great now because true greatness impacts winning. Babars runs against good teams hasn't really done that.
 
unemployedgm said:
Comparing Babar to Virat isn't a good exercise. Virat wins games for India both as a batsman and as a captain. He has demonstrated in all formats an ability to dominate the opposition.

Babar is a really good batsman with potential to be great. But he's not great now because true greatness impacts winning. Babars runs against good teams hasn't really done that.
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Babar doesn't have the batting partners that kohli has.if you put kohli in Pakistan team would he stil win matches?
 
That was a great innings it's a shame they lost the game.perfect exceleration from Babar.
 
unemployedgm said:
Comparing Babar to Virat isn't a good exercise. Virat wins games for India both as a batsman and as a captain. He has demonstrated in all formats an ability to dominate the opposition.

Babar is a really good batsman with potential to be great. But he's not great now because true greatness impacts winning. Babars runs against good teams hasn't really done that.
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His runs don't often come in wins against top sides because he is in a rubbish team.

Babar is not as good as Rohit but even Rohit had a SR of 84 and an average of low 40 after playing 160 ODIs. A batsmen like Rohit can afford to score a 50 at a SR of 60 and then accelerate because he plays for a much stronger side but Babar cannot afford to do that because his team is not good. His 100 in the 3rd ODis would have resulted in a win if he played for a good side, but he plays for a side in which batsmen suck, fielding is school level, and bowlers are brainless.

Babar is not as good as some others but he is priceless for Pakistan.
 
unemployedgm said:
Comparing Babar to Virat isn't a good exercise. Virat wins games for India both as a batsman and as a captain. He has demonstrated in all formats an ability to dominate the opposition.

Babar is a really good batsman with potential to be great. But he's not great now because true greatness impacts winning. Babars runs against good teams hasn't really done that.
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As a finisher.

But Virat has only a handful of knocks where he blasted the opposition bowling line up.

Mallinga take down is famous
Couple of hundreds in 50-60 balls while chasing 350+ against Aussies
 
sensible-indian-fan said:
True.

But Rohit did play a similar knock in Perth.

170 in Perth which India lost.

Slow start leading to insane hitting.

Wasnt enough in the end.
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It was an average knock. He started too slow. Can't bat that defensively. 171 of 163 balls vs third string Australian attack on an absolute flat belter.

When you bat that slowly in first 25 overs, middle order is expected to hit from 1st ball and Pandey, Dhoni and Jadeja middle order was not capable of that anyways.

India need a Bairstow type explosiveness at top. Shaw can give that but then we have to drop Dhawan.
 
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Ab Fan said:
It was an average knock. He started too slow. Can't bat that defensively. 171 of 163 balls vs third string Australian attack on an absolute flat belter.

When you bat that slowly in first 25 overs, middle order is expected to hit from 1st ball and Pandey, Dhoni and Jadeja middle order was not capable of that anyways.

India need a Bairstow type explosiveness at top. Shaw can give that but then we have to drop Dhawan.
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True.

Our entire team is filled with stat boosters (by and large) except Pandya and recently KL in middle order.
 
There is stats and there is impact in LOI.

Sachin of 90s with his flawed ODI stats >>> Sachin post 2000 with more balanced stats

Kohli till 2014 with his flawed stats >>>>>>>>>> Kohli post 2015 who has been averaging an insane 70

Bmac with one of the lowest averages in 2015 WC >>>> Many 40s and 50s averaging bats in that WC

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Babar is an excellent run accumulator but how impactful he is......I am not sure about it.
 
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Babar continues to be clueless against leg-spin bowling, for a supposedly world-class batsman it's a bit embarrassing to still be attempting to read googlies off the pitch.
 
Looked out of sorts today. He’s knackered and needs a rest.
 
All his shots today were reckless he kept loosing his shape when trying to hit big
 
People just doesn't understand cricket. On most pitches in UAE you can't hit trought the line. His strike rate was very okay for the conditions. You look how well played Kohli played yesterday and scored a 45-ball fifty. Had Babar played that innings he would have been critisized for slow, selfish batting.


Babar Azam at the moment is batting at a very high level. It's all time great level batting.
 
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People just doesn't understand cricket. On most pitches in UAE you can't hit trought the line. His strike rate was very okay for the conditions. You look how well played Kohli played yesterday and scored a 45-ball fifty. Had Babar played that innings he would have been critisized for slow, selfish batting.


Babar Azam at the moment is batting at a very high level. It's all time great level batting.
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Cricket isn't that complicated to understand. Kohli batted at the pace he had to yesterday because the situations he was batting and Babar was batting in were different. You only need a decent amount of cricket knowledge to understand that.

Babar's criticism has never been that he fails to chase moderate totals. In fact, I think UAE conditions are perfect for his style of batting and he might well have a good WT20 tournament here as most surfaces are 150 par surfaces. But on true wickets where 200 is par like the next WT20 venue in Australia, Babar starts becoming a bit of a liability. I'm not criticising Babar just because he is a Pakistani, I said Shaheen is an absolute gun and that he's primed to become an ATG long before this match happened when your fellow Pakistanis were criticising his bowling.

But it's just that Babar is more a Joe Root type of player (who coincidentally might have been useful on these UAE wickets) in T20 format who has his advantages in certain conditions (like yesterday) and disadvantages in certain conditions (when you need to chase 10+ an over from the start). I can tell you because many Indian top order batters play the same brand of cricket which has become outdated and they're heavily criticise for that in Indian forums. Australian fans criticise Smith also in T20 cricket for similar reasons, in fact, a lot of them argued he shouldn't be in the starting XI for the T20 WC. Pakistanis for some reason tend to be become very touchy when Babar gets the same critique.
 
street cricketer said:
Cricket isn't that complicated to understand. Kohli batted at the pace he had to yesterday because the situations he was batting and Babar was batting in were different. You only need a decent amount of cricket knowledge to understand that.

Babar's criticism has never been that he fails to chase moderate totals. In fact, I think UAE conditions are perfect for his style of batting and he might well have a good WT20 tournament here as most surfaces are 150 par surfaces. But on true wickets where 200 is par like the next WT20 venue in Australia, Babar starts becoming a bit of a liability. I'm not criticising Babar just because he is a Pakistani, I said Shaheen is an absolute gun and that he's primed to become an ATG long before this match happened when your fellow Pakistanis were criticising his bowling.

But it's just that Babar is more a Joe Root type of player (who coincidentally might have been useful on these UAE wickets) in T20 format who has his advantages in certain conditions (like yesterday) and disadvantages in certain conditions (when you need to chase 10+ an over from the start). I can tell you because many Indian top order batters play the same brand of cricket which has become outdated and they're heavily criticise for that in Indian forums. Australian fans criticise Smith also in T20 cricket for similar reasons, in fact, a lot of them argued he shouldn't be in the starting XI for the T20 WC. Pakistanis for some reason tend to be become very touchy when Babar gets the same critique.
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I agree Kohli played well according to the game situation but I expected him to hit a few blows at the end.the surface we played om yesterday was a good wicket and was proberly more than a 150 pitch they proberly would have chased 170.
 
shamaan said:
I agree Kohli played well according to the game situation but I expected him to hit a few blows at the end.the surface we played om yesterday was a good wicket and was proberly more than a 150 pitch they proberly would have chased 170.
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Like I said, Kohli is close to the end of his career. He is a pale shadow of himself right now and I was actually surprised he played the decent knock he did under pressure. I thought he would get out cheaply too.
 
street cricketer said:
Like I said, Kohli is close to the end of his career. He is a pale shadow of himself right now and I was actually surprised he played the decent knock he did under pressure. I thought he would get out cheaply too.
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What kind of an excuse it is to be at the end of his career at 32?
 
Mobashir said:
What kind of an excuse it is to be at the end of his career at 32?
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He's turning 33 in around a week. Lots of western cricketers have retired around that age. Clarke retired at 34, Graeme Smith at 33. I'm betting Kohli has played the most number of games out of anyone in all cricket since his debut, or at least he must be close to the top. Cricketers play a lot more cricket than they played around a decade or two ago. Kohli looks burnt out and it has been showing already in the last two years. It's not an "excuse", stop looking at everything as an exercise of nationalism and start watch sports from a sporting pov more.
 
street cricketer said:
He's turning 33 in around a week. Lots of western cricketers have retired around that age. Clarke retired at 34, Graeme Smith at 33. I'm betting Kohli has played the most number of games out of anyone in all cricket since his debut, or at least he must be close to the top. Cricketers play a lot more cricket than they played around a decade or two ago. Kohli looks burnt out and it has been showing already in the last two years. It's not an "excuse", stop looking at everything as an exercise of nationalism and start watch sports from a sporting pov more.
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Maybe he should forget the PSL and concentrate on playing real cricket
 
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This 91* by Babar was the most pointless big innings I have seen played in a long time. He really needs to sort out a plan in middle overs on slow pitches.
 
Babar Azam played according to what was required, the other useless batsmen botteled it. Very low level batsmen Karachi Kings picked this year lol
 
Babar is so overrated. Probably the most overrated batter to come out of Pakistan. He is not good in test cricket not good in T20 cricket. His best format is ODI's & no one seems to play ODI cricket nowadays.

The main culprit of Pakistan's semi-final loss vs Australia was Babar's awful 39 on 34 & his captaincy.

But as long as he will score these useless runs in losing causes his fans will be happy & will consider him as the best in the world.
 
In today’s game chasing 190 he made 90 off 63 balls.

The rest needed to get 85 runs on the other remaining balls.

Dont think they would have got even there if he got out. They were 2 shots away from a win.
 
Ryw said:
Babar Azam played according to what was required, the other useless batsmen bottled it. Very low level batsmen Karachi Kings picked this year lol
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did you watch his innings today, because that's far from the truth, majority of the innings he was between 115%-123% strike rate, it can went to 142% at the end due to the three 4s he hit-very last over - where they need 29 runs of last over,

he struggled today, hit too many singles, doesn't have the power to fuller deliveries, especially from slower balls.

im no barbar hater- but he should attacked far earlier when he faced 30odd balls - at that stage he made 37runs from 30balls- very poor, made 50 runs from 41balls.

poor innings from him
 
He relies a lot in the early overs on a fast scorer alongside him. That's why this match was over as soon as Sharjeel was out.
 
ChTab said:
Babar is so overrated. Probably the most overrated batter to come out of Pakistan. He is not good in test cricket not good in T20 cricket. His best format is ODI's & no one seems to play ODI cricket nowadays.

The main culprit of Pakistan's semi-final loss vs Australia was Babar's awful 39 on 34 & his captaincy.

But as long as he will score these useless runs in losing causes his fans will be happy & will consider him as the best in the world.
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You serious? Some fans on here are really fickle. You really think Babar is overrated? The guy hasn't even hit 30s yet and is already on way to go down our best batter in ODIs. In tests I would not be surprised if he surpasses 10k runs as well by time he retires. Babar can be constructively criticised over pacing his chase for today's innings but seriously he is not overrated.
 
Saj said:
He relies a lot in the early overs on a fast scorer alongside him. That's why this match was over as soon as Sharjeel was out.
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Ooft that's brutal, but unfortunately the brutal truth.
 
Saj said:
He relies a lot in the early overs on a fast scorer alongside him. That's why this match was over as soon as Sharjeel was out.
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Haqeeqat

Something Rizwan and Babar fans will never accept. The truth.
 
Saj said:
He relies a lot in the early overs on a fast scorer alongside him. That's why this match was over as soon as Sharjeel was out.
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What’s the value of a so-called “fast scorer” who gets out at the very first ball he plays?

There is no guarantee he would have provided the match-winning knock. The “fast scorer” only benefits from his 0(1) as it captures the fantasy of the fans that in another world the “fast scorer” mighta coulda played a 70(30)
 
Extra_Cover said:
You serious? Some fans on here are really fickle. You really think Babar is overrated? The guy hasn't even hit 30s yet and is already on way to go down our best batter in ODIs. In tests I would not be surprised if he surpasses 10k runs as well by time he retires. Babar can be constructively criticised over pacing his chase for today's innings but seriously he is not overrated.
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Yes, I am serious & I have had this stance on Babar for the past 2 to 3 years. I have said that his best format is ODI but no one plays ODI's these days. Babar has only played 11 ODI's after the 2019 WC at this rate he won't be able to cross 10K in ODI's but yes He is top class in ODI's & will always be.

In test cricket, he had his purple patch 2 years ago if he didn't have that patch his average would have been in 30's so I don't know how he is going to cross 10K in tests as well unless he improves his batting drastically.

Less said about his T20 batting is better. His 34 balls 39 cost us the T20 WC 2022 & most of the time he bats for a substantial amount of time in T20 cricket his team loses the game.
 
Rana said:
Haqeeqat

Something Rizwan and Babar fans will never accept. The truth.
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At least Rizwan can play at a much better pace as compared to Babar who is incapable of playing at a higher run rate.
 
ChTab said:
At least Rizwan can play at a much better pace as compared to Babar who is incapable of playing at a higher run rate.
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Rizwan definitely has more urgency than Babar, I’ll give him that.
 
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