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It's a shame that PK plays so little against quality teams, so players like Babar can show their true quality. This was a brilliant innings and Babar showed his class
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[VIDEO] Babar Azam is quite overrated
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cricketjoshila
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It was an excellent knock by Babar. Yes the pitch was easy but batting under a 500 run target is not easy.
Hell if some other pakistani batsmen had shown some urgency and batted quicker while Babar held one end, pakistan could have won it.
Well played babar.
Hell if some other pakistani batsmen had shown some urgency and batted quicker while Babar held one end, pakistan could have won it.
Well played babar.
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What an innings. Going to be tough pill to swallow for his haters but this boy just played a gem.
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One of the bast innings ever. Couldn't be more proud of Babar. Amazing. I hope his domination in tests continues now.
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Babar has played one of the best test innings of recent times.
This could be a watershed moment in his test career.
This could be a watershed moment in his test career.
Joseph Gomes
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I can't help but feel that Babar is massively overrated in T20I. Don't care about rankings personally, T2O rankings have always been a farce. Babar has a great batting average, but I never feel Pakistan can win comfortably when he's batting. Especially in World Cup.
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There was a reason I created this thread 4 years ago.
Look at all the responses in this thread, my only question is why was I the only one to see the mediocrity and that to a whopping 4 years ago?
Look at all the responses in this thread, my only question is why was I the only one to see the mediocrity and that to a whopping 4 years ago?
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Because you are gifted.
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Now people need to understand that Babar is not at the age where he can do something extraordinary to be ranked among international legends
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They will, but these pitches are a lottery. He is still doing better than your entire overrated lineup would do on these pitches. He is already in much better form than he was in 2023 and 2024.
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He's just doing a little better than Rohit at the moment, so congratulations.
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Kohli never lost to USA either in a T20i
Rana
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Are you referring to his innings against USA?
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Babar Azam is most overrated player in the world .
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Babar is neither a tough pitch survivor nor a flat pitch dominator. He is more a flat pitch accumulator. You have to be one or the other to have an aura.
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That's not a loss. technically it is a tie, check cricinfo or wherever. Kids these days.
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He was highest run scorer for the team in that match and in that WC as well. We would have lost in 12 overs if it was not for Babar's inning in that match.
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He still has the aura right? Imagine what he would do if he becomes a tough pitch survivor and a flat pitch dominator. Although, I don't agree with it. He is a mix a both. No player can score as much as Babar does without being neither of those.
Babar Azam is a great support act and not the main lead. The problem for Pakistan is that Babar does not have a main lead to play the supporting act to.
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He has no aura. He never had imposing presence. He had a lot of flat tracks in 2023 world cup. For instance against NZ on an absolute road Pakistan had to get 200 in 25 overs or something. Actual domination was from Fakhar not Babar.
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This. His fans have no taste in life if they feel he has aura.
His aura is as impressive as a Pakora
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Sad thing is, if Babar played that innings they would’ve called it the GOAT innings, but because it’s Fakhar they act like it never happened.
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@jnaveen1980 has made me go back to watch that innings now, how many people have gone back to watch any of Babar’s batting highlights, not many I’d imagine.
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It is a team game not a movie, there is no support act or main lead. Iniesta and Xavi were as important as Messi. This analogy doesn't work here
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He has gone out of form for a long time now. It does not look like he has worked on his problems as well. Is he Overrated?
Boy was a heavy scorer... can't say that he is over-rated.
He is not kamran Ghulam
Boy was a heavy scorer... can't say that he is over-rated.
He is not kamran Ghulam
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In ODIs and T20s Combined Babar is one of the best players to play for Pakistan scored more than 10,000 runs in limited over format.
It does. Not all batters have the ability to take the game to the opposition. Some batters are good just batting within themselves and being good in partnerships with players who are aggressive. That's what I meant. Babar can be a very good batter with good average but he will never bother any opposition. He needs someone like a Fakhar Zaman on the other end to give meaning to his pedestrian innings. Unfortunately Babar does not have too many Fakhar Zaman's in the lineup. That's what I meant about support act. He is a good batter in a great batting lineup filled with aggressors, but in a batting line up like Pakistan which already has 3-4 players like him he can score runs but cannot make an impact.
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