And the goalpost shifting starts....
I am not sure you understand how cricket works but one of the ways to say Babar deserves a place in the side is showing that he is more worthy of a place in the side than another player or players. This is elementary. We have a tulla captain who strikes at 117 in ODIs, rubbish bowler and hides down the order against big sides. It is completely valid to show how mediocre this tulla Agha is and how Babar the most successful batsman in T20I history deserves a place over such mediocrity. We saw the Usman Khans, Mohammed Harris' of the world...minnow bashers who could do nothing against big boys. The new savior is Farhan with his beautiful 103 SR vs Aus and 87 vs NZ.
I never denied that most of his runs came against weak teams. All Pakistan have done for most of 2025 is play weak teams. But he scored runs against the only top team they played aswell and more importantly, he scored a half-century against India in a high-pressure Asia Cup final too. And those runs came at a SR of 150 which shows that he improved from his previous outings against the same team.
Against top teams (SENA+I)
Why are you showing me Babar's stats all the way from 2016? What has he done in the past two years? And even these stats are not completely accurate because they don't account for the number of times Babar has smashed the C and D sides of SENA teams in meaningless bilaterals.
It has been repeated a million times that Farhan is just coming into his career over the last year or so, so showing older stats makes no sense. That's like looking at Sachin's early ODI career for first couple of years and saying he wa the worst batsman ever.
They still do raise the question as to how a guy who has played primarily as an opener over 6-7 years has a strike rate of 128. That’s pathetic
Better than Farhan even then LOL!Before running to talk about Sachin everywhere take the time to read. Farhan is striking at 120 this year vs SENAI all those matches were played in Pak or UAE so nothing was outside Asia.
Why hide the complete picture? Because it exposes Babar for the fraud he is? You have a problem with Farhan scoring against weak teams, but what about Babar statpadding against Ireland and New Zealand D?
Ok let’s say agha has been rubbish, no problem. Why should Babar replace him, what has Babar done to replace him?
2022.
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@BouncerGuy why you merging this man?
Because it is about Babar being in the squad and reactions if not there... Cannot be making new threads for every single thing just because you are obsessed with him.
Do you see me asking the question of whether Babar should be in the squad or not?!
Already told you the exact reason....
I’ll try again in the evening to post this as a seperate thread
Hesson might be a modern coach but he isn’t going to take this tough call! He’s seen first hand how the team and management are under constant media trial without Babar and Rizwan in the team and that too in top order positions
I think Aqib and Naqvi will support him too.
Aqib and Naqvi did support him during the Asia cup and its lead up
Great,
Not needed. KPK discussion can stay hereGreat,
We can also link it with the website of 33 KPK players in which we discuss 3 teams only.
