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[VIDEOS] Is Babar Azam the best all format batter in the world currently?

mominsaigol said:
I do know for a fact given my past visit to CA, that rankings are manipulated somewhat.

Kohli use to be ranked no 1, but ICC had in the past deliberately awarded extra points to babar to get him no 1.

The points are heavily biased towards Asian teams, Mainly because India is the most popular nation so any controversy with them will spark more interest and more money to the sport.

Babar is a household name, CA and ECB know he's medicore which is why no foreign league hires him, However from a marketing standpoint think of it this way

Kohli has been no 1 ranked for years and then a kid from an under developed country cones forth and just takes the crown. Now imagine from a pr standpoint what type of publicity that achieves for a 1.3B and 225M population as well as many overseas Indians and pakistani who can spread the word out?

ICC wants to keep bobby at the top for a reason. Someone like root or Williamson no 1 won't really spark more interest.

It is a business at the end of the day
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Also let me clarify, I meant The rankings I saw on SCG and how everything works behind the scene.

Not Cricket Australia itself
 
mominsaigol said:
Also let me clarify, I meant The rankings I saw on SCG and how everything works behind the scene.

Not Cricket Australia itself
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Also more clarification, They said rankings are changed based of marketing where more or less points are allocated.

They were vague but I'm assuming that's why babar got an over abundance amount of points and his points don't decrease much.
 
Rana said:
Who’s controlling these rankings? Feels like it’s Mohsin Naqvi rewarding mediocrity
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Rankings are more or less fine, the issue is the point deduction for games missed. Earlier it made some sense but when workload management is too common among most good teams. Some unworthy top ranked players have emerged.

Btw: Jaiswal technically is at 925 points, but he won't get the full points for another 11 test games.
 
Babar sitting at the top but to be honest, innings he played are far too many compared to other players.


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Babar Azam is a liability on Pakistan cricket, would be best for all for send him back to domestic cricket to work on his form and fitness..

And please keep him far away from captaincy... Horrible captain..!!
 
usman.sandhu said:
Babar Azam is a liability on Pakistan cricket, would be best for all for send him back to domestic cricket to work on his form and fitness..

And please keep him far away from captaincy... Horrible captain..!!
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He is your leading run scorer across formats for 8 . Do you realize that?
 
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Problem with Babar Azam is that he is Abibas but not Adidas. He’s the best version of a Pakistani cricketer that can be possible in 2024 but unfortunately for Pakistan, it’s not good enough for international supremacy. An impact less statpadder and someone who lacks the character to become a great.
 
30 August 30, 2023 was the last time Babar hit a century in international cricket. This match is probably his last chance to end his 100 drought.

Considering his poor record against spin, I doubt he get it in the first Test.
 
heddie19 said:
He is your leading run scorer across formats for 8 . Do you realize that?
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I realize that his meaningless runs have not contributed to anything, our cricket has fallen to new lows under his captaincy..

Dropping him with immediate effect and trying to bring in other players would start the healing process...
 
usman.sandhu said:
I realize that his meaningless runs have not contributed to anything, our cricket has fallen to new lows under his captaincy..

Dropping him with immediate effect and trying to bring in other players would start the healing process...
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Grapes are sour. Drop him if you can. Pakistan cricket can't play a match without him.
 
heddie19 said:
Grapes are sour. Drop him if you can. Pakistan cricket can't play a match without him.
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Saying pakistan can't play a game without him is different then saying Babar is superior to Sachin Tendulkar which you have vocally proclaimed.
 
heddie19 said:
Grapes are sour. Drop him if you can. Pakistan cricket can't play a match without him.
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If it were up to me I would drop him without any hesitation, along with Rizwan and Shaheen Shah Afridi.. we do not need toxic politics in the team...

You need to understand that cricket is a team game, Babar Azam's performances over the past couple of years have rendered him useless.. Zero confidence, disgraceful execution, poor fitness and his lust for power has completely derailed his career.. he needs to be sent back to domestic cricket to salvage any cricket he may have left in him... And he is a pathetic captain..

Always remember -> No player is bigger than the team
 
Question should be,

Is he among the top 5 bastmen in any format?

T20 - He was never among the top 5.
Test - He was never among the top 5.
ODI - He was among the top 5 few years back but not right now.

Now many top class players were not playing all three formats so his name was there as best all format batsman some time back but it sounds like made up title given the context.
 
Babar's form in test cricket as well, has been pretty mediocre since 2022.

He needs to score runs in these games now. No excuse.
 
Buffet said:
Question should be,

Is he among the top 5 bastmen in any format?

T20 - He was never among the top 5.
Test - He was never among the top 5.
ODI - He was among the top 5 few years back but not right now.

Now many top class players were not playing all three formats so his name was there as best all format batsman some time back but it sounds like made up title given the context.
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He was never ampung top 5 even a few years ago?

Babar's regression started in 2022 correct? And he made his debut in 2016?

From 2016 to 2019 England outright dominated and even then the likes of Steve smith, Warner were all in their prime and Kohli in 2016 was next level alongside rohit sharma?

I'll only talk about tournaments but here are all the players superior to him in these years

2017 CT: Pretty much the entire England team + The entire Aussie team + multiple members of the Indian team, Williamson from NZ was also superior at this time and so was Fakhar zaman with 2017 being his most consistent year overall.

2019: again all of England, Entirety of India like dhawan, Rohit, Kohli and even corpse Dhoni, all of Australia, Numerous members from SA including the likes of QDK.

He was never once in top 5 in odi ever?
 
BouncerGuy said:
Babar's form in test cricket as well, has been pretty mediocre since 2022.

He needs to score runs in these games now. No excuse.
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Here is the performance of Babar Azam in his last 12 Test innings. Got some starts but failed to cash in on them. No 50+ score in last 12 inning is a huge setback.

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usman.sandhu said:
If it were up to me I would drop him without any hesitation, along with Rizwan and Shaheen Shah Afridi.. we do not need toxic politics in the team...

You need to understand that cricket is a team game, Babar Azam's performances over the past couple of years have rendered him useless.. Zero confidence, disgraceful execution, poor fitness and his lust for power has completely derailed his career.. he needs to be sent back to domestic cricket to salvage any cricket he may have left in him... And he is a pathetic captain..

Always remember -> No player is bigger than the team
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Only people with 0 brain can drop your greatest batter. I am sure that you know that despite his zero confidence and disgraceful execution he has the most runs across formats in last 2 years too.
 
heddie19 said:
Only people with 0 brain can drop your greatest batter. I am sure that you know that despite his zero confidence and disgraceful execution he has the most runs across formats in last 2 years too.
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Yeah just like only people with 0 Brain cells have the audacity to think that Babar azam is superior to Australia's greatest whiteball opener from the last 10+ years
 
mominsaigol said:
He was never ampung top 5 even a few years ago?

Babar's regression started in 2022 correct? And he made his debut in 2016?

From 2016 to 2019 England outright dominated and even then the likes of Steve smith, Warner were all in their prime and Kohli in 2016 was next level alongside rohit sharma?

I'll only talk about tournaments but here are all the players superior to him in these years

2017 CT: Pretty much the entire England team + The entire Aussie team + multiple members of the Indian team, Williamson from NZ was also superior at this time and so was Fakhar zaman with 2017 being his most consistent year overall.

2019: again all of England, Entirety of India like dhawan, Rohit, Kohli and even corpse Dhoni, all of Australia, Numerous members from SA including the likes of QDK.

He was never once in top 5 in odi ever?
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May be you are right, but ODI is the only format I saw him as top class.
 
Buffet said:
Question should be,

Is he among the top 5 bastmen in any format?

T20 - He was never among the top 5.
Test - He was never among the top 5.
ODI - He was among the top 5 few years back but not right now.

Now many top class players were not playing all three formats so his name was there as best all format batsman some time back but it sounds like made up title given the context.
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The usual Babar Azam or the Babar Azam when he unleashes his inner Bobby.
 
As I said before numerous times , "Best all format batsman" is a useless term right now in 2024 because there are very few batters that actually play all the three formats currently.

Babar's competition currently is probably Kusal Mendis, Aiden Markram and Travis Head...and that says pretty much everything.
 
Travis Head in my opinion is currently the best and well rounded all format batter in the world right now. Also as clutch as they come.

Babar fans should stop this cringeworthy jumla and hope for Babar to come good in Test cricket on a consistent basis. Modern day T20 batting mastery is probably out of his league .
 
usman.sandhu said:
If it were up to me I would drop him without any hesitation, along with Rizwan and Shaheen Shah Afridi.. we do not need toxic politics in the team...

You need to understand that cricket is a team game, Babar Azam's performances over the past couple of years have rendered him useless.. Zero confidence, disgraceful execution, poor fitness and his lust for power has completely derailed his career.. he needs to be sent back to domestic cricket to salvage any cricket he may have left in him... And he is a pathetic captain..

Always remember -> No player is bigger than the team
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One could understand the team politics of the Pakistani teams of the ‘90s (Wasim vs Waqar vs Sohail etc) & 80s (IK vs Miandad) as they were genuine larger-than-life superstars but what’s so special about this team that they even indulge in such toxic culture?
 
Buffet said:
Question should be,

Is he among the top 5 bastmen in any format?

T20 - He was never among the top 5.
Test - He was never among the top 5.
ODI - He was among the top 5 few years back but not right now.

Now many top class players were not playing all three formats so his name was there as best all format batsman some time back but it sounds like made up title given the context.
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in ODIs he is for sure but not in other 2 formats
 
Buffet said:
Question should be,

Is he among the top 5 bastmen in any format?

T20 - He was never among the top 5.
Test - He was never among the top 5.
ODI - He was among the top 5 few years back but not right now.

Now many top class players were not playing all three formats so his name was there as best all format batsman some time back but it sounds like made up title given the context.
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But who even plays all formats?

Rohit and Kohli have retired in t20

Qdk is no longer interested in anything besides leagues.

Warner is gone.

So many players don't prefer to play all formats, this all formats nonsense is another excuse really
 
Buffet said:
Question should be,

Is he among the top 5 bastmen in any format?

T20 - He was never among the top 5.
Test - He was never among the top 5.
ODI - He was among the top 5 few years back but not right now.

Now many top class players were not playing all three formats so his name was there as best all format batsman some time back but it sounds like made up title given the context.
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In ODIs, he is still a top class player. Except for Rohit and Kohli, how many top order batters average 55+ at strike rate of 85+?
 
Ab Fan said:
In ODIs, he is still a top class player. Except for Rohit and Kohli, how many top order batters average 55+ at strike rate of 85+?
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No one gives a kahoot. In the same way bavuma who averages 45 and sr 91 yet isn't even top 25 sa batters.

A player is remembered for their impact not their average.

Do you even remember who top scored in world cups in 2011 or 2015 or 2007? Cause without looking it up I sure don't. I didn't even know Sachin's average until recently lol.

World cup 2023 is remembered for shami and bumrah going to town on oppositions, Rohit sharma being a nightmare in PP,

Kphli breaking the record,

Maxwell playing the best chase innings of all time,

Travis head giving India Ricky Pointing 2003 flashbacks, rachin ravindra being the young find of the tournament,

QDK cementing himself as the best wicket batter for sa(excluding de villers who quit keeping after qdk came)

Fakhar going to town on NZ, Rizwan and Abdullah pulling of the highest chase.

England playing shockingly poor and Afghanistan continuing ots tradition of upsets.

Afghanistan getting their first official win over pakistan in odi and breaking said streak and so much more.

No one remembers the fact that Babar averaged 40 with 80 sr on a world cup stage cause it was meaningless, In the same way no sane person would ever take misbah over inzi because Inzi's 1992 innings alone is more memorable of any 50 of 83 Misbah ever made.
 
mominsaigol said:
No one gives a kahoot. In the same way bavuma who averages 45 and sr 91 yet isn't even top 25 sa batters.

A player is remembered for their impact not their average.

Do you even remember who top scored in world cups in 2011 or 2015 or 2007? Cause without looking it up I sure don't. I didn't even know Sachin's average until recently lol.

World cup 2023 is remembered for shami and bumrah going to town on oppositions, Rohit sharma being a nightmare in PP,

Kphli breaking the record,

Maxwell playing the best chase innings of all time,

Travis head giving India Ricky Pointing 2003 flashbacks, rachin ravindra being the young find of the tournament,

QDK cementing himself as the best wicket batter for sa(excluding de villers who quit keeping after qdk came)

Fakhar going to town on NZ, Rizwan and Abdullah pulling of the highest chase.

England playing shockingly poor and Afghanistan continuing ots tradition of upsets.

Afghanistan getting their first official win over pakistan in odi and breaking said streak and so much more.

No one remembers the fact that Babar averaged 40 with 80 sr on a world cup stage cause it was meaningless, In the same way no sane person would ever take misbah over inzi because Inzi's 1992 innings alone is more memorable of any 50 of 83 Misbah ever made.
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Bavuma has 1500 runs, Babar has 5000+ runs already.

Babar was good in 2019 World Cup. He failed in 2023 World Cup but he will have two more World Cups to prove everyone wrong.

1 knock will win you one game. Consistency will win you 50 games.
 
Ab Fan said:
Bavuma has 1500 runs, Babar has 5000+ runs already.

Babar was good in 2019 World Cup. He failed in 2023 World Cup but he will have two more World Cups to prove everyone wrong.

1 knock will win you one game. Consistency will win you 50 games.
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No it won't, Misbah was one of the most consistent pakistani batters yet is famously remembered for being it's biggest bottler.

Consistency without impact is completly useless. Many in cricket who plays safe and risk free can soft score.

The question is, Can you win games consistently not can you score 50's consistently lol.

The biggest problem with Babar is that in whiteball despite playing for 8 years he has only 2 memorable knocks, 2019 NZ and 2021 India game.

Compare that to Fakhar zaman who has ct semi final and final, Sa 193 chase, Zimbabwe 210 score, best wc 100 to chase down 400, 91 of 46 against australia in t20 which took pakistan to no 1 rank spit on that day, 3 back to back monster 100's capping off at 180 etc etc.

If you're gonna talk about consistency, fakhar zaman an inconvenient batsmen has more iconic knocks?

It was the same with sanatah jaysuria.

Both these players may be inconsistent but their more consistent when it comes to winning games.

Everyone on the planet would hate and despise Kohli and Dhoni if all they did was score 50's or soft 100's and vanish, infact for a while people blamed Kohli for vanishing in finals before he finally played his 2024 final knock

Rohit, Kohli and Dhoni are remembered for winning you games consistently, not for scoring 5000 runs at an avg of 50 lmao.

^^ The only record excluding match wins that people care about is Kohli breaking sachin's record. Otherwise the no of runs kohli has, dhoni's 50 avg etc, no one cares.

Their called India's greatest chaser(kohli), India's greatest finisher(Dhoni) and Hitman(rohit)

Not India's greatest 57 avg, india's greatest 50 avg and india's greatest 45 avg.

Sane logic applies to bobby. 8 years and he has less notable innings then even his own buddy rizwan who he gloats about.
 
mominsaigol said:
No it won't, Misbah was one of the most consistent pakistani batters yet is famously remembered for being it's biggest bottler.

Consistency without impact is completly useless. Many in cricket who plays safe and risk free can soft score.

The question is, Can you win games consistently not can you score 50's consistently lol.

The biggest problem with Babar is that in whiteball despite playing for 8 years he has only 2 memorable knocks, 2019 NZ and 2021 India game.

Compare that to Fakhar zaman who has ct semi final and final, Sa 193 chase, Zimbabwe 210 score, best wc 100 to chase down 400, 91 of 46 against australia in t20 which took pakistan to no 1 rank spit on that day, 3 back to back monster 100's capping off at 180 etc etc.

If you're gonna talk about consistency, fakhar zaman an inconvenient batsmen has more iconic knocks?

It was the same with sanatah jaysuria.

Both these players may be inconsistent but their more consistent when it comes to winning games.

Everyone on the planet would hate and despise Kohli and Dhoni if all they did was score 50's or soft 100's and vanish, infact for a while people blamed Kohli for vanishing in finals before he finally played his 2024 final knock

Rohit, Kohli and Dhoni are remembered for winning you games consistently, not for scoring 5000 runs at an avg of 50 lmao.

^^ The only record excluding match wins that people care about is Kohli breaking sachin's record. Otherwise the no of runs kohli has, dhoni's 50 avg etc, no one cares.

Their called India's greatest chaser(kohli), India's greatest finisher(Dhoni) and Hitman(rohit)

Not India's greatest 57 avg, india's greatest 50 avg and india's greatest 45 avg.

Sane logic applies to bobby. 8 years and he has less notable innings then even his own buddy rizwan who he gloats about.
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There are middle grounds everywhere and Bahar plays the role of anchor in the team. Put Babar in England or Australian team and note the difference.

You are giving examples of players like Kohli, Rohit who have performed not just in World Cups but also consistently in bilaterals. They are obviously better but someone who comes out of the blue and say, wins a match in World Cup knockout cant be awarded the tag of "best ODI batter in the world" ahead of a guy like Babar Azam who is consistently rated as one of the best in the world, particularly in ODIs.

Consistency won't matter in T20s much but it holds lot of value in longer formats( ODIs and Tests).
 
Not the best all-format batter anymore. He is still a beast in ODIs but his t20 and test game has been mediocre for a long time now.

1 good knock and he will be back on track. He is still the best one we got.
 
Ab Fan said:
There are middle grounds everywhere and Bahar plays the role of anchor in the team. Put Babar in England or Australian team and note the difference.

You are giving examples of players like Kohli, Rohit who have performed not just in World Cups but also consistently in bilaterals. They are obviously better but someone who comes out of the blue and say, wins a match in World Cup knockout cant be awarded the tag of "best ODI batter in the world" ahead of a guy like Babar Azam who is consistently rated as one of the best in the world, particularly in ODIs.

Consistency won't matter in T20s much but it holds lot of value in longer formats( ODIs and Tests).
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No one said they shpuld be awarded the tag of best odi batter in the world just because they perform in knockouts.

Fakhar is not the best, not even close however true pakistan fans respect him more. Misbah and Babar on the other hand are the 2 most polarising figures in pakistan history, they can't decide to hate them or like them mainly because they alienate fans qith consistency bit no value.

As for the whole put Babar in Australia and England, lol, he won't even get selected 🤣. Australia loves playing at their home den the most, it's the strongest den. Babar on the other hand is worse then every single aussie batter in their home den.

He's a tail ender in Australia lol.

As for England, England wont ever select babar as long as root is arpund in test format. In odi formst, England is looking to move on from root at no 3, but they haven't found a solid no 3 since Hales retired.

If your solution is fir babar to bat around while others like Travis head do their jobs, then they'll refuse. They already have Labu for that who can anchor far far better then babar cam since Labu doesn't mess up in crunch moments.
 
BouncerGuy said:
Not the best all-format batter anymore. He is still a beast in ODIs but his t20 and test game has been mediocre for a long time now.

1 good knock and he will be back on track. He is still the best one we got.
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Anymore? Lol
 
BouncerGuy said:
Yes, not anymore. He was great back in 2021 and since then, it has just been a downfall. Captaincy is not his cup of tea.
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Brother, Babar was never ever the best all format batter in the world.

That never happened unless you were playing some sort of cricket simulator on the ps5 and decided to take babar azam in my career mode.

If you actually think he was the best allformat batter from 2016-2021, Then david Warner, Rohit sharma, Kohli and many more just died in a corner.
 
mominsaigol said:
Brother, Babar was never ever the best all format batter in the world.

That never happened unless you were playing some sort of cricket simulator on the ps5 and decided to take babar azam in my career mode.

If you actually think he was the best allformat batter from 2016-2021, Then david Warner, Rohit sharma, Kohli and many more just died in a corner.
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Not talking about the world. He is the best one from Pakistan for sure.
 
BouncerGuy said:
Not talking about the world. He is the best one from Pakistan for sure.
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You said he is NOT THE BEST ALL FORMAT BATTER ANYMORE. You didn't say not the best all format batter for PAKISTAN anymore.

and the comment you replied to from @Ab Fan talked about Babar comparing his consistency to other wordly batters.
 
mominsaigol said:
You said he is NOT THE BEST ALL FORMAT BATTER ANYMORE. You didn't say not the best all format batter for PAKISTAN anymore.

and the comment you replied to from @Ab Fan talked about Babar comparing his consistency to other wordly batters.
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I never once thought that he is the best batter of the world. Yes he is best batter from PAKISTAN. Having a bad patch does not mean that he is finished.
 
mominsaigol said:
No one said they shpuld be awarded the tag of best odi batter in the world just because they perform in knockouts.

Fakhar is not the best, not even close however true pakistan fans respect him more. Misbah and Babar on the other hand are the 2 most polarising figures in pakistan history, they can't decide to hate them or like them mainly because they alienate fans qith consistency bit no value.

As for the whole put Babar in Australia and England, lol, he won't even get selected 🤣. Australia loves playing at their home den the most, it's the strongest den. Babar on the other hand is worse then every single aussie batter in their home den.

He's a tail ender in Australia lol.

As for England, England wont ever select babar as long as root is arpund in test format. In odi formst, England is looking to move on from root at no 3, but they haven't found a solid no 3 since Hales retired.

If your solution is fir babar to bat around while others like Travis head do their jobs, then they'll refuse. They already have Labu for that who can anchor far far better then babar cam since Labu doesn't mess up in crunch moments.
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Labu doesn't mess in crunch moments on what basis? That 100 ball 50 he got vs India, Head was the main destroyer. Labu himself is a massive home track bully. He has done nothing away from home and couldn't save his team from two home series whitewash vs India.

Currently, Babar is going through a dip in his career, just wait for some time when the tide turns. Hope you stick to your opinion and don't join the Babar fan club again when he finds his form back. If you can't stick at his worse, you don't deserve to be with him at his best.
 
Ab Fan said:
Labu doesn't mess in crunch moments on what basis? That 100 ball 50 he got vs India, Head was the main destroyer. Labu himself is a massive home track bully. He has done nothing away from home and couldn't save his team from two home series whitewash vs India.

Currently, Babar is going through a dip in his career, just wait for some time when the tide turns. Hope you stick to your opinion and don't join the Babar fan club again when he finds his form back. If you can't stick at his worse, you don't deserve to be with him at his best.
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If you can't stick at his worst and you don't deserve to be with him at his best?

Also, you're not understanding, My point is Babar in his ABDOLUTE PRIME which was 2016-2021, Was nothing more then an accumulative soft scoring batter.

His consistent 50's or 100's didn't really help in the long run besides West Indies and weaker teams and even then he vanished againat big sides and has a poor record against them.

As for the Labu thing, my point was Australia already have a babar like batter who in home conditions is a bully, Why on earth would they want an accumulator who can't bat in Australia and got exposed horrificly at this venue?

I'm fully aware Travis did the bashing and that's what Babar in his prime amount to. Just an accumulative fiddle while others do the bashing lol.

He turns into a king on roads or against Nepal and crapola bowling attacks sure, But he just won't ever match up to Travis or play these sorts of impactful knocks.

In 2017 CT he was mostly a 2nd fiddle, to hafeez and fakhar in the final.

Even his 2 best performances against NZ and India are accumulative scores. The india one was chased at the end and not the bang bang England bashing that came a year later.

NZ was carried by haris sohail being the aggressor and babar being the amchorer.

He was never the best and acting like he's world class and not medicore is hilarious.

The whole bad slump thing, unless babar comes back and surpasses himself in his prime where he starts winning actual games against top sides even if their series like test against australia or odi against full strength England, only then will public opinion change,

Otherwise get use to your hero getting booted out of the 100
 
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When are we going to start questioning his place in the team? I can’t remember him playing an innings of note in any format for years, but he seems to be getting a free ride in the team, without any substantial performances backing his place in the team. Is he in the team on merit or reputation?
 
The_KING said:
When are we going to start questioning his place in the team? I can’t remember him playing an innings of note in any format for years, but he seems to be getting a free ride in the team, without any substantial performances backing his place in the team. Is he in the team on merit or reputation?
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His ego is too huge to take some time away from the game and work on the deficiencies in FC cricket. These nonces would happily play plenty of franchise cricket though. He has an entitled spoilt brat mind. If he is dropped I doubt he will work hard to get better.
 
Babar has successfully pulled off the biggest scam in modern day Cricket. He followed two basic strategies -

1) Play every minnow, associate, B side, score heavy.
2) Play safe against the top sides, maintain a not too shabby record.

The combination of two led to some magical stats. There was no obvious flaw in his numbers, a King👑 was born.
 
Really poor yesterday by Babar. Too many soft dismissals over a long period of time. If we look at the England series at home, same against NZ and just as bad in Australia. Afterall a while it's not unlucky
 
Missed the opportunity of scoring a double century in this test match.

Maybe next test.
 
People are being too harsh on him.
He will get back in form, will definitely be amongst the top 5 batsman in the world in a year's time
 
The Bald Eagle said:
Riz innings today showed how he missed a big opportunity to score big on this beautiful batting surface.
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Isn't that what others are accusing Babar of? At his peak, he was nothing more than a soft run scorer and a statpadder.
 
Babar Azam's Test stats, 3898 runs at average of 45.32 with 9 hundreds.

On Pakistani highways, 1491 runs at 67.77 with 6 hundreds

Outside Pakistan 2407 runs at below par average of 37 with 3 hundreds.

Only 3 hundreds in 39 matches and some fans call him best batsman in the world 🤦🏻‍♀️

Show me more overrated batsman than him.. Open challenge 👍🏻
 
Babar is not even the best batter in the side at the moment. He is a good batsman and will have a good career but will not be a great in Tests at least. In ODIs may be he will end up with a great average but I don't think he will be remembered as the batter with most impact in that format either.
 
@Bilal7 - You still maintain that Babar is better than every Indian batsman till date except Sachin and Kohli, and that Babar will end up as the greatest batsman ever from Asia? :salute
 
Hitman said:
@Bilal7 - You still maintain that Babar is better than every Indian batsman till date except Sachin and Kohli, and that Babar will end up as the greatest batsman ever from Asia? :salute
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I don't know about better.

But he is becoming the greatest batsmen ever from Asia. Although not in the way people assumed. 🤣
 
Babar Azam has dropped six places to ninth in the latest ICC Test rankings following a rare failure in the first innings against Bangladesh in Rawalpindi.

He now sits just six rating points ahead of Mohammad Rizwan, who is close behind in the updated rankings.
 
BouncerGuy said:
Babar Azam has dropped six places to ninth in the latest ICC Test rankings following a rare failure in the first innings against Bangladesh in Rawalpindi.

He now sits just six rating points ahead of Mohammad Rizwan, who is close behind in the updated rankings.
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Rare failure?
 
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