[VIDEOS] Can statpadding and anchor role win you any T20 World Cup?

[Rana]

Any words for Rizwan’s slog sweep of Bumrah’s first ball?

Or when Babar tried to dab it to third man for a single?

Of course no words for precious Rizwan.

His intentional blocks of slot balls in the powerplay are also a part of his genius with the bat according to these guys

 

[mominsaigol]

Labuschagne’s 50 in 110 balls in the World Cup final is one of the most impactful and match winning half-centuries ever.

As a batsman, you will be one of the biggest match losers for your team if you think that batting at a high SR is the only way to play your cricket no matter what the context of the game is.

The thing about Labu's innings, is that while it's an amazing innings, it always requires the batter at the other end to attack which was Travis.

Same with the Afghanistan vs Australia Match, Maxwell gets the most credit but credit needs to be given to Pat Cummings for being a pitch perfect Wall.

Virat's innings against Pakistan in 2022 was the same, Pandya at the other end was a wall and made sure useless bats don't follow him as had he departed, the likes of ashwin would have been walking wickets.

You always need one attacker at the other end. The attacker doesn't need to be next level, but even in your Afghanistan example, one batter was clearly more aggressive towards the other.

Labu's innings, Pandya's innings and Pat Cummings innings will always be 2nd nature to Travis, Maxwell and Kohli during those games.

Case in point you can't have 2 Labu's at the crease scoring 50 of 110 each and losing everything.

 

[Vikram1989]

Unfortunately for Pak, both it's seasoned stats padders failed at their most accomplished art this world cup.

Else a semis berth was certain with stats padding/anchoring type of cricket along with the kind of bowlers and finishers Pak has.

Problem is that both are stat padders on flat tracks .They don't even accumulate on bowling tracks as we saw in Asia cup 2023,t20 wc 2022 etc