[VIDEO] Pakistan Dot Ball watch at ICC Champions Trophy 2025

[BouncerGuy]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1892259547990909046

The dot ball count in Pakistan's innings against New Zealand was a staggering 162 balls, which equates to a whopping 27 overs of their innings. That's nearly half of their allotted overs where they failed to score a single run. This is simply unacceptable at the international level and highlights a major flaw in their batting approach.

Whether it's a lack of intent, poor shot selection, or an inability to rotate the strike, Pakistan's batters have left themselves with a mountain to climb in that game. If they want to compete in the next match, they need to address this issue immediately. They must find a way to keep the scoreboard ticking, even if boundaries are hard to come by. Rotating the strike and minimizing dot balls should be their top priority moving forward. Otherwise, they risk putting themselves under unnecessary pressure and handing the advantage to their opponents once again.

 

[Bhaijaan]

What’s the record for most dot balls played in a 50 overs game by a major cricket nation

 

[Varun]

27 overs out of 50 are dot balls?

Pakistan plays T20s like ODIs, ODIs like Tests, and Tests like god knows what.

 

[BouncerGuy]

What’s the record for most dot balls played in a 50 overs game by a major cricket nation

must belong to Pakistan LOL

 

[jnaveen1980]

What’s the record for most dot balls played in a 50 overs game by a major cricket nation

Bangladesh vs SA , 2002. 229 dot balls
Bangladesh vs England 2003 227 dot balls


2025

Srilanka vs NZ, 178 dot balls
Pakistan vs NZ, 164 dot balls (14th feb)
Paksitan vs NZ 161 dot balls (19th feb) Back to back record
Bangladesh vs India 158 dot balls

 

[Bhaijaan]

Bangladesh vs SA , 2002. 229 dot balls
Bangladesh vs England 2003 227 dot balls


2025

Srilanka vs NZ, 178 dot balls
Pakistan vs NZ, 164 dot balls (14th feb)
Paksitan vs NZ 161 dot balls (19th feb) Back to back record
Bangladesh vs India 158 dot balls

So clearly anything behind 150 dots is minnow category stuff. Unpardonable.

I am guessing 100 dot balls would be common.

120 bad

140 Worse

150 Disaster category and Pakistan did beyond that few days ago in a tournament opener at home. That has to be a historic choke job.

 

[jnaveen1980]

So clearly anything behind 150 dots is minnow category stuff. Unpardonable.

I am guessing 100 dot balls would be common.

120 bad

140 Worse

150 Disaster category and Pakistan did beyond that few days ago in a tournament opener at home. That has to be a historic choke job.

Depending on the surface. World cup semi final between Australia and SA at Eden Gardens dot balls galored. I think steve smith made 30 in 62 balls or something.

South Africa 188 dot balls
Australia 183 dot balls

 

[jnaveen1980]

Was a used pitch. Runs were hard to come by. But for Head's cameo Australia would have lost it. Also poor bowling changes by SA let them down.

 

[MenInG]

Thread is about Pakistan so lets keep it at that.

 

[BouncerGuy]

In the pre-match analysis of the Pakistan vs New Zealand game in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, Wasim Akram said that Babar Azam should not be worried about run rate and should take all the time he needs while everybody should bat around him. But it back-fired as Babar Azam played a lot of dot-balls in that game.

After the game finished and Pakistan lost the game, this is what Wasim Akram had to say about that inning during a post-match analysis:

"There's this joke that goes like this: A guy gets angry with his wife, they have a fight, and he storms out of the house, really furious. So in anger, he said something like, 'I wish I were dead!' and he dies in reality. In the afterlife, that guy says, ‘I was just joking around’. Like that, I was also just making a point about Babar Azam. I wasn't being serious, but Babar Azam literally took it to heart. Like a person can't even joke around!”

View attachment ssstwitter.com_1740202534267.mp4

 

[BouncerGuy]

Another game, another pathetic batting performance so far from batters... flurry of Dot balls atm against India... Pathetic

 

[BouncerGuy]

Both saud and rizwan fighting hard to break the record of Babar from the last game... Come on... work hard

 

[BouncerGuy]

99 dot balls so far in 26 overs... CRIMINAL

 

[The Bald Eagle]

99 dot balls so far in 26 overs... CRIMINAL

Pakistan today played 152 dot balls against India

 

[Bhaijaan]

Pakistan today played 152 dot balls against India

How many dotties for Bharat bro?

 

[Kianig89]

Ironic the legacy being carried by RizBar and others, why can't the batting coach solve this life lasting problem, more likely the players are incapable to avert this