[VIDEOS] Long may the Babar-Rizwan partnership continue

[Sherlock]

 

[Asif321]

Ironic the man misbah is the one who made Rizwan a opener

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

Pakistani batting looks hopeless after these two get out early.

 

[Rana]

Pakistani batting looks hopeless after these two get out early.

So why are they batting in positions from where there is no coming back?

They are openers

Openers make your life easier! It’s the middle order that holds it together and sees you through to the end. Why don’t they play in the middle if they are that damn good?

 

[Kroll]

Pakistani batting looks hopeless after these two get out early.

These two in Australia have been hopeless as well. Only Shan and Iftikhar have performed although that's not saying much either.

 

[jeeteshssaxena]

The middle order delivered vs Ind but here they failed.
I thought this would be easy for Pak, considering the reqd run rate was just 6.5

 

[TheSultan]

I predicted before the tournament that they will in desperation break this partnership DURING the world cup. But they haven't given it a thought beforehand so that will fail too.

So many people said before the tournament - you have 2/3 months of non stop T20is prior to the tournament - please have a plan B and try something different. But "we know how good we are, we don't listen to anyone else".

Pathetic mentality deserves a pathetic exit.

 

[Rana]

The middle order delivered vs Ind but here they failed.
I thought this would be easy for Pak, considering the reqd run rate was just 6.5

The middle order didn’t fail

They had a partnership of 50 off 37 between number 3 and 5.

It was the lower order that couldn’t see it through at the end

 

[jeeteshssaxena]

The middle order didn’t fail

They had a partnership of 50 off 37 between number 3 and 5.

It was the lower order that couldn’t see it through at the end

This lost is totally on the openers, reqd rate was 6.5 which was right up their alley.

But yeah even middle order failed to deliver, still did way better than the openers.

There shouldn't have been a need for the lower order to close this game.

 

[jnaveen1980]

The middle order delivered vs Ind but here they failed.
I thought this would be easy for Pak, considering the reqd run rate was just 6.5

INdia lacked that tall heavy length bowlers in the middle overs a reason why Pakistan ran away to a total of 159. Zimbabwe has like 2 or 3 bowlers who can hit the deck hard and extract bounce. Most of the balls whizzed past the nose of the batsmen. It is not like they didn't want. It is just that they couldn't

 

[Suleiman]

Meaningless runs no one will remember. If you can’t do it in a t20 WC, who cares? )

 

[Suleiman]

When Babar bats with Rizwan he averages close to 32.56 (if I heard it right) and when he bats with someone else his averages close to 56.71.

- A Sports broadcast

People keeps saying they're not the problem, and I do agree to a point. But the issue is because the middle order is so bad and poor, having Babar coming in one down will allow for a more solid lower order, instead we see if one of them get out the whole middle order suffers because they don't have the ability to negotiate even a run-a-ball RR.

Either play Haider in the opening spot, or drop him completely because I've not seen one batsman that's looked so poor whenever he's on the field, be it while he fields or when he bats. His confidence looks shattered.

Play him where he's supposedly better, otherwise drop him and be done with it.

This has been suggested many many times and is yet to be tried our.

Either Babar is selfish and wants to face as many as possible, or him + management are so close minded that they are hell bent on Rizwan and Babar opening due to superficial stats that unfairly show them as the “best opening pair”

 

[shamaan]

The openers cost Pakistan alongside Shadab Khan who played a stupid shot after hitting the ball for 6 the ball before.

 

[Mamoon]

Babar and Rizwan were planning their usual con act today.

They wasted 20 balls, hoping to take Pakistan to a 10 wicket win, registering half-centuries at 130 SR and hugging it out on the pitch, pretending that they played blinders with their deluded fans praising them for saving a collapse.

Babar getting out in the fourth over was not part of the script and jolted his fellow con man who departed in the next over.

 

[James]

Many of us have been saying for some time that the Pakistan batting order is far too top-heavy and much too reliant on Babar and/or Rizwan getting in and scoring runs. Babar seems to be dropping out of form a little, so all it takes now is a failure for Rizwan and the mediocre middle order is exposed without Pakistan’s best players. The batting order needs to be rearranged.

 

[D/DAhmed]

These Gray Nicholls frauds are ending careers in Pakistan just to pad their stats at the top of the order against B/C team attacks. I especially feel for the likes of Fakhar Zaman, Shan Masood and specifically Haider Ali, who was an attacking and classy opener with a cover drive even better than Babar at the U19 level but has been transformed into a tullaybaaz cross-the-line slogger to make up for the poor strike rates of these shameless individuals.

To make matters even worse, someone like Asif Ali, who initially came on to the scene playing these kind of innings (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTWHGJO7yYw) and could have been cultivated into a dynamic #4 or #5 batsman was forced into becoming a pure six hitter and hack just to accommodate the low strike rates of these openers and is now basically a tailender. Mohammad Haris' career is also going to finish before it's even started, he's being kept around as a backup opener because these cunning individuals know he isn't good enough to open in international cricket as of yet, but at the same time isn't able to play domestic cricket and improve his game.

Fortunately, these two shameless men have been exposed at the highest level and in front of the world. The one game they sat out, the maligned duo of Masood and Haider scored at 10+ RPO against England, since then the tuk tuk has returned and we're back to playing the same awful cricket. Both need to leave this team as soon as possible, Babar can still hide his poor mentality in the Test and ODI format, whilst for Rizwan it is probably better to stay back in Australia and pursue a career as a full time imam over there.

 

[Sakib94]

Problem is Pakistan try and bat at the exact rate required even when chasing a small total which shows weak mentality.Why not try and get ahead of the game ?

 

[Markhor]

These two frauds can add this to their collection of big match bottlejobs of:

- AUS SF (both batted too slowly on a belter leaving us 10-15 runs below par)
- Asia Cup final
- ENG series decider
- NZL tri-series final
- IND match in T20 WC

For over a year we've heard non-stop PR about these two.

Oh let's swoon over Babar's pretty cover-drives, doesn't matter that he's scoring at a mediocre SR.

Oh Rizwan got out of ICU to play in the SF, look at him doing khutbahs in mosques, praying on the field, playing through injury. What a soldier. Doesn't matter that he looks a tailender against movement and bounce, or his powergame is limited to legside.

Oh look at their averages, look at their ICC rankings.

My question has always been - what is their impact ? Are they winning matches for Pakistan ?

No, they always leave the dirty work to the middle order. We don't win the AFG or NZL matches in last year's WC, or 4th T20 vs ENG without Asif Ali's late hitting. We don't beat NZL in the tri-series final without Nawaz's cameo. There are more examples.

They never get ahead of the game, always they look to take chases deep even against Zimbabwe. They let the RRR climb and climb, and put so much pressure on the middle-order. And when they fail, they fool the fans with their 50 (40) and say "we did our job."

This gutless, cowardly and outdated approach has been thoroughly exposed on the world stage. I hope fans who kept giving [MENTION=2016]Rana[/MENTION] grief will apologise to him, he was exactly right about this duo.

 

[Varun]

This gutless, cowardly and outdated approach has been thoroughly exposed on the world stage. I hope fans who kept giving [MENTION=2016]Rana[/MENTION] grief will apologise to him, he was exactly right about this duo.

I still disagree for the most part with someone like [MENTION=2016]Rana[/MENTION]. Babar and Rizwan still have got the chops in the other 2 formats, and his suggested replacements (Sharjeel Khan, Umar Akmal) are so far out of the races to be taken seriously.

 

[MRSN]

Happens when you don't want to rest and want to play even dead rubbers because your alternatives can be more impactful. Insecurity is the reason why our senior players refuse to rest even in meaningless games.

One of the biggest reasons we lost today because we never tried our lower options. Rizwan and Baber were playing all matches opening the game playing majority of the overs. This is where they were behind preparations. PCB should have forced to rest both and allow others to get important match practice as well as confidence in their batting. Now we are seeing when these two departs we don't know how to approach our innings.


Also massive blunder by Baber today to play 6 bowlers and miss a batter on this pitch. Arguably one of the worst pick but it is no surprise when qudrat ka nizam hai is head coach and Baber with no brains is captain.

 

[MRSN]

I still disagree for the most part with someone like [MENTION=2016]Rana[/MENTION]. Babar and Rizwan still have got the chops in the other 2 formats, and his suggested replacements (Sharjeel Khan, Umar Akmal) are so far out of the races to be taken seriously.

For me it is not about the names but the mindset that needs to be changed. 90s mindset can't work in t20s in 2022. We need to get rid of defensive coach and captain. Yousuf should also be sacked. Batting had been below par ever since he took over.

 

[Rana]

I still disagree for the most part with someone like [MENTION=2016]Rana[/MENTION]. Babar and Rizwan still have got the chops in the other 2 formats, and his suggested replacements (Sharjeel Khan, Umar Akmal) are so far out of the races to be taken seriously.

Why are you making things up about me?

Where did I ever suggest Umar Akmal should replace Babar?

 

[MRSN]

These two frauds can add this to their collection of big match bottlejobs of:

- AUS SF (both batted too slowly on a belter leaving us 10-15 runs below par)
- Asia Cup final
- ENG series decider
- NZL tri-series final
- IND match in T20 WC

For over a year we've heard non-stop PR about these two.

Oh let's swoon over Babar's pretty cover-drives, doesn't matter that he's scoring at a mediocre SR.

Oh Rizwan got out of ICU to play in the SF, look at him doing khutbahs in mosques, praying on the field, playing through injury. What a soldier. Doesn't matter that he looks a tailender against movement and bounce, or his powergame is limited to legside.

Oh look at their averages, look at their ICC rankings.

My question has always been - what is their impact ? Are they winning matches for Pakistan ?

No, they always leave the dirty work to the middle order. We don't win the AFG or NZL matches in last year's WC, or 4th T20 vs ENG without Asif Ali's late hitting. We don't beat NZL in the tri-series final without Nawaz's cameo. There are more examples.

They never get ahead of the game, always they look to take chases deep even against Zimbabwe. They let the RRR climb and climb, and put so much pressure on the middle-order. And when they fail, they fool the fans with their 50 (40) and say "we did our job."

This gutless, cowardly and outdated approach has been thoroughly exposed on the world stage. I hope fans who kept giving [MENTION=2016]Rana[/MENTION] grief will apologise to him, he was exactly right about this duo.

Rizwan is technically so limited that once oppositions have figured him out he looks out of options. His offside game is non existent. He rarely plays straight and he struggles to find gaps in powerplay overs. It is no surprise he looks like lost on Aussir pitches when bowlers are bowling with off side line.

 

[James]

Keep it clean guys. Nothing personal please.

 

[Technics 1210]

Rizwan is not going to score big anytime soon!

Bowlers/Teams have twigged Rizwan is a leg side player mainly and will attack accordingly.

In fact, I predict Rizwan will now drop some serious ranks in the T20 batsman rankings, and out of the top 10, within a year.

As for Babar, Mr. Timid accumulator, he is neither suited for captaincy nor opener role.

Great players step up on the occasion, our so called 'great T20 batsmen' regress on the big occasion.

 

[shamaan]

One of the biggest reasons we lost today because we never tried our lower options. Rizwan and Baber were playing all matches opening the game playing majority of the overs. This is where they were behind preparations. PCB should have forced to rest both and allow others to get important match practice as well as confidence in their batting. Now we are seeing when these two departs we don't know how to approach our innings.


Also massive blunder by Baber today to play 6 bowlers and miss a batter on this pitch. Arguably one of the worst pick but it is no surprise when qudrat ka nizam hai is head coach and Baber with no brains is captain.

Literally everyone baring me didn't go with an extra pacer becouse I knew the batting would flop hence why I went with the same bowling line up.

 

[TheSultan]

Babar and Rizwan were planning their usual con act today.

They wasted 20 balls, hoping to take Pakistan to a 10 wicket win, registering half-centuries at 130 SR and hugging it out on the pitch, pretending that they played blinders with their deluded fans praising them for saving a collapse.

Babar getting out in the fourth over was not part of the script and jolted his fellow con man who departed in the next over.

This did make me chuckle. Not gonna lie - he ain’t wrong

 

[Sherlock]

Wasim today suggested that when he was in the PSL as a coach he once asked Babar to try playing at #3 and to allow Sharjeel to open.

Babar subsequently declined so they had to send Sharjeel in one-down.

So basically I think Babar is simply not allowing a change here.

 

[MHN1293]

Why do these two look out of sorts suddenly in Australia. Just recently babar had a decent series in nz. But now Ireland and afghan pacers are making them struggle

 

[Saj]

I've watched the whole of the Pakistan innings against Zimbabwe a few times now.

What springs to mind is that both Babar and Rizwan had in their minds that they wanted a 10-wicket win, 50 not outs and if that meant them batting into the 19th or 20th over so be it.

 

[Kroll]

This partnership needs scrapped. In fact this whole useless batting lineup needs binned.

 

[TheSultan]

Why do these two look out of sorts suddenly in Australia. Just recently babar had a decent series in nz. But now Ireland and afghan pacers are making them struggle

That’s because these two are clueless on tracks with pace and bounce like Perth and even the MCG has a lot of bounce this year too - nz wickets are very slow.

Sorry to say - Babar and Rizwan were looking like tailenders. They couldn’t lay bat on ball for a lot of deliveries and even when they did they hardly got it off the square. Rizwan was dancing around like ballerina.

 

[pratiktc]

I've watched the whole of the Pakistan innings against Zimbabwe a few times now.

What springs to mind is that both Babar and Rizwan had in their minds that they wanted a 10-wicket win, 50 not outs and if that meant them batting into the 19th or 20th over so be it.

Maybe little unfair. Zim bowling first few overs was on target and Babar dismissal was slightly unlucky.
We can see this world cup that except NZ-Aus match there is help in first few overs for bowlers and all opening batters are being tentative especially in games against weaker teams/associates.

India recalibrated their batting against Netherlands looking to score par instead of risking losing wkts. Aus also started slow in chase against SL.
Both teams banked on the weakest point for these teams being death bowling which they could take advantage of in 2nd half of inns.

 

[hitthestump]

Why do these two look out of sorts suddenly in Australia. Just recently babar had a decent series in nz. But now Ireland and afghan pacers are making them struggle

Pakistani's have always struggled down under, this is nothing new. Babar and Rizwan are experts on dead pitches but bounce is exposing their weaknesses.

Iftikhar and Shan are the only two who seem capable of doing anything. And Shan is slower than RizBab.

 

[Rana]

Pakistani's have always struggled down under, this is nothing new. Babar and Rizwan are experts on dead pitches but bounce is exposing their weaknesses.

Iftikhar and Shan are the only two who seem capable of doing anything. And Shan is slower than RizBab.

‘Experts’?

That’s why they strike it at 300 on dead pitches?

 

[Zaz]

‘Experts’?

That’s why they strike it at 300 on dead pitches?

Dont forget its your famed middle order that lost the game against zimbabwe the other day These tullabaazs you keep asking for a big time bottlers

yes lets get more of them in they ll come good in at least 1 out of 10 games

 

[UzmanBeast]

Babar and Rizwan were planning their usual con act today.

They wasted 20 balls, hoping to take Pakistan to a 10 wicket win, registering half-centuries at 130 SR and hugging it out on the pitch, pretending that they played blinders with their deluded fans praising them for saving a collapse.

Babar getting out in the fourth over was not part of the script and jolted his fellow con man who departed in the next over.

The partnership statistics are heavily skewed towards Rizwan's sublime form in T20Is over the last two years. I can safely say that Rizwan has carried Pakistan's batting lineup, and it has indeed been seen that Babar is more the issue at the top.

It's not that he isn't used to the bounce, I don't think that's where he struggles. I think he needs to re-evaluate how exactly he will go about opening the innings, because in the subcontinent, you can afford to play a few dot deliveries as an opener and still make do with the consistency in the pitches. In Australia, the longer you leave that new ball intact, the worse it gets once bowlers themselves get accustomed to the pitch and start generating that swing/seam movement.

This conversation on the Babar-Rizwan partnership should have been ended after the 2021 T20 World Cup; it was clear that in the long-run, it would harm the T20 style of cricket that Pakistan should be looking to adopt. Even at that point, I felt as though it should be Babar stepping down at #3 to accommodate a more explosive batsman at the top.

What constitutes Pakistan's poor performances in this world cup so far is quite literally the stubbornness to avoid changing anything solely because reaching the qualification stage of the semi-finals meant that it was a "good" team performance. Apart from testing new bowling combinations, which I will give full credit to this management for doing (our bowling attack looks very mature, and it is not something I often say about the bowling line-ups we have produced in recent times), the management completely failed with regards to the preparation in the batting lineup.

For one, you need to look as far as Babar's repeated plays and misses on the cover drive in the powerplay against Zimbabwe. He was perfectly fine with the timing but did not realize how much higher the bounce was, inevitably trying to play a cover drive on deliveries that should have been negotiated on the back-foot. Furthermore (also where we lost that match), Mohammad Wasim looked like a fish out of the water when he kept missing the back-of-the-length deliveries by Ngarava (I believe that's his name). Against India, both Shadab and Haider got out trying to play the pull shot to the rising short-ball, and the fact that I don't remember seeing anyone execute a proper pull-shot (apart from maybe Shaheen, though I would call that more a fortunate slog than an actual shot) goes to show how poor our batting has been in negotiating the bounce on these wickets.

I don't think Pakistan will have much of a chance of making the semi-finals, and it is certainly disappointing from a batting perspective, and also from a selection perspective, how much dead weight we carry on the pitch time and time again without assessing what the requirements of the pitches are, and how best to prepare for a tournament such as a world cup.

 

[MenInG]

Sometimes I feel we have lost it as a nation.

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[MenInG]

Former Pakistan pacer Mohammad Amir feels that both the batters are not ready to get out of their comfort zone.

"All of this started when Misbah (Misbah-ul-Haq) became the head coach and he made (Mohammad) Rizwan open and sacrificed a Fakhar (Zaman), who was Pakistan's opener in T20 cricket at that time"

"Good players can perform anywhere. In order to save your place in the team, you said you can't bat at number 5, and because of that Fakhar was sacrificed. Both openers (Rizwan and Babar Azam) are limited, and are not ready to get out of their comfort zone"
NDTV

 

[srh]

I've watched the whole of the Pakistan innings against Zimbabwe a few times now.

What springs to mind is that both Babar and Rizwan had in their minds that they wanted a 10-wicket win, 50 not outs and if that meant them batting into the 19th or 20th over so be it.

Classic example of them being selfish and putting their stats above Pakistan's interests.

Misbah burned the Pakistan T20 team by appointing Rizwan as an opener over real T20 openers like Sharjeel and Fakhar. That step alone sealed the fate of Pakistan's T20 team to be remain an average team and never go for the big win.

 

[Rana]

Let’s hope the number 1 who was wearing his special badge and the number 4 can inflict a violent defeat against SA and bring us back in this tournament

 

[Kianig89]

So we're done despite having King Babar and No.1 ranked T20 batsman maybe I guess its the system of nature

 

[Joseph Gomes]

So we're done despite having King Babar and No.1 ranked T20 batsman maybe I guess its the system of nature

T20I rankings are completely worthless. Surya Kumar Yadav is more valuable than all Pakistan batsmen in T20I combined.

 

[srh]

T20I rankings are completely worthless. Surya Kumar Yadav is more valuable than all Pakistan batsmen in T20I combined.

there are some people here who really think Rizwan is #1 T20 batsman of the world

 

[Joseph Gomes]

there are some people here who really think Rizwan is #1 T20 batsman of the world

SKY's career strike rate is 176. Some people would consider Rizwan an ATG if Rizwan played a single 50+ run knock at that SR. SKY does it every single match

 

[in_cutter]

What a epic fail at this WC

 

[Cric1234]

Classic example of them being selfish and putting their stats above Pakistan's interests.

Misbah burned the Pakistan T20 team by appointing Rizwan as an opener over real T20 openers like Sharjeel and Fakhar. That step alone sealed the fate of Pakistan's T20 team to be remain an average team and never go for the big win.

Misbah also had this thing against Umar Akmal aswell who would’ve done better than most opening batsmen in limited overs during his prime and would’ve been Pakistan best test batsman during his prime Misbah liked to put batsmen who play his way in the top order which has cost Pakistan.

 

[Saj]

After Netherlands scraped 90 or so today, if the Pakistan think-tank had anything about them they would have sent in Fakhar and possibly Shadab out there to open.

Ideal opportunity to score the runs quickly and boos their NRR.

Instead we saw the usual pairing come out and bat in their usual methodical way.

 

[Caved12]

Sometimes I feel we have lost it as a nation.

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Hmmm Rana Irfan

Yes we have totally lost it as a nation

 

[Hawkeye]

This gutless, cowardly and outdated approach has been thoroughly exposed on the world stage. I hope fans who kept giving [MENTION=2016]Rana[/MENTION] grief will apologise to him, he was exactly right about this duo.

Brother [MENTION=53290]Markhor[/MENTION], I'm back after a long time, and I'm so glad to see you're finally seeing the light.

Apart from [MENTION=2016]Rana[/MENTION], I too have been very vocal about how pathetic Rizwan is.
I hope you remember that.

He's always been an extremely limited batter. Dead wickets, average bowlers and stats-padding approach gave him the #1 T20 ranking.

But, it's meaningless. He's an impact-less player, destined to fail at every big stage or when the ball bounces slightly more than he can handle. Let alone movement.

 

[Hawkeye]

Babar and Rizwan were planning their usual con act today.

They wasted 20 balls, hoping to take Pakistan to a 10 wicket win, registering half-centuries at 130 SR and hugging it out on the pitch, pretending that they played blinders with their deluded fans praising them for saving a collapse.

Babar getting out in the fourth over was not part of the script and jolted his fellow con man who departed in the next over.

Wait what, how are you including Rizwan here?

Or have you finally realized how bad Rizwan is? If so, that's a positive.

 

[Suleiman]

Brother [MENTION=53290]Markhor[/MENTION], I'm back after a long time, and I'm so glad to see you're finally seeing the light.

Apart from [MENTION=2016]Rana[/MENTION], I too have been very vocal about how pathetic Rizwan is.
I hope you remember that.

He's always been an extremely limited batter. Dead wickets, average bowlers and stats-padding approach gave him the #1 T20 ranking.

But, it's meaningless. He's an impact-less player, destined to fail at every big stage or when the ball bounces slightly more than he can handle. Let alone movement.

Good to see you back bro. You’re the OG who was against Rizwan. Even though I disagreed with you back then, it’s apparent now that with his current limitations he’s just as limited as Sarfraz was on these pitches

 

[Suleiman]

Sometimes I feel we have lost it as a nation.

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This is how I feel about all the people who target the players personally, especially in terms of them practicing their religion like in the TP thread.

It’s one thing to criticize on field performance, but then that frustration leaking over to a player’s physical appearance or personal choices shows a person has issues and is taking it out on an innocent individual.

 

[Gullycricket]

These two frauds can add this to their collection of big match bottlejobs of:

- AUS SF (both batted too slowly on a belter leaving us 10-15 runs below par)
- Asia Cup final
- ENG series decider
- NZL tri-series final
- IND match in T20 WC

For over a year we've heard non-stop PR about these two.

Oh let's swoon over Babar's pretty cover-drives, doesn't matter that he's scoring at a mediocre SR.

Oh Rizwan got out of ICU to play in the SF, look at him doing khutbahs in mosques, praying on the field, playing through injury. What a soldier. Doesn't matter that he looks a tailender against movement and bounce, or his powergame is limited to legside.

Oh look at their averages, look at their ICC rankings.

My question has always been - what is their impact ? Are they winning matches for Pakistan ?

No, they always leave the dirty work to the middle order. We don't win the AFG or NZL matches in last year's WC, or 4th T20 vs ENG without Asif Ali's late hitting. We don't beat NZL in the tri-series final without Nawaz's cameo. There are more examples.

They never get ahead of the game, always they look to take chases deep even against Zimbabwe. They let the RRR climb and climb, and put so much pressure on the middle-order. And when they fail, they fool the fans with their 50 (40) and say "we did our job."

This gutless, cowardly and outdated approach has been thoroughly exposed on the world stage. I hope fans who kept giving [MENTION=2016]Rana[/MENTION] grief will apologise to him, he was exactly right about this duo.

Although I don't think we could have done any better with any other set of openers but I must agree that this combo is not the solution. I backed this duo a lot but they are very limited. Seeing Riz against India was so embarassing. He didn't even look a proper batsman. The solution to the middle order woes goes through them. My main gripe is the refusal to try anything else by them. Easily one of them could have dropped down to middle order and solved this issue. I mean you can't be this bad.

 

[Saj]

I was having a chat yesterday with a guy who works for a sports agency.

He was saying that some cricketers have deals where they are paid bonuses by their sponsors and kit providers for the number of 50s and 100s they score. So in effect it's their individual performance where they earn extra money rather than the team performance.

He was suggesting that perhaps that is an incentive for some Pakistani players at the moment.

 

[Cover Drive Six]

I was having a chat yesterday with a guy who works for a sports agency.

He was saying that some cricketers have deals where they are paid bonuses by their sponsors and kit providers for the number of 50s and 100s they score. So in effect it's their individual performance where they earn extra money rather than the team performance.

He was suggesting that perhaps that is an incentive for some Pakistani players at the moment.

But that extra money is peanuts for some cricketers I guess.

 

[Saj]

But that extra money is peanuts for some cricketers I guess.

Depends who the deals are with and what the deals entail.

 

[Hawkeye]

Good to see you back bro. You’re the OG who was against Rizwan. Even though I disagreed with you back then, it’s apparent now that with his current limitations he’s just as limited as Sarfraz was on these pitches

Thank you.

And yes, he's as limited as Sarfraz - very similar style batters. Rizwan is just better at stat-padding on dead wickets.

 

[Major]

Bump

 

[MenInG]

Bump

Na rulao becharon ko please....

 

[Major]

Na rulao becharon ko please....

the amount of hate they gave to both these guys and how they wanted them to be dropped.

Forget posters, even ex cricketers like Saleem malik saying God has sent us here and we will mess it up if we dont remove either

 

[daytrader]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is the 9th opening partnership of 100 or more by Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam in T20Is - the most by any batting duo in the history of T20Is <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NZvPAK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NZvPAK</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/T20WorldCup?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#T20WorldCup</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@SajSadiqCricket) <a href="https://twitter.com/SajSadiqCricket/status/1590295110604165122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Saj]

Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan opening in T20Is:

Innings 51
Runs 2509
Average 51.20
Hundred partnerships 9
Fifty partnerships 9

 

[Rana]

Long May it not continue but well played today

 

[daytrader]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan opening in T20Is:<br><br>Innings 51<br>Runs 2509<br>Average 51.20<br>Hundred partnerships 9<br>Fifty partnerships 9<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/t20worldcup?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#t20worldcup</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NZvPAK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NZvPAK</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@SajSadiqCricket) <a href="https://twitter.com/SajSadiqCricket/status/1590297939968081921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Rana]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan opening in T20Is:<br><br>Innings 51<br>Runs 2509<br>Average 51.20<br>Hundred partnerships 9<br>Fifty partnerships 9<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/t20worldcup?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#t20worldcup</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NZvPAK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NZvPAK</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@SajSadiqCricket) <a href="https://twitter.com/SajSadiqCricket/status/1590297939968081921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Collective sr in these stats?

 

[Slim]

InshaAllah, champion cricketers!

 

[Joseph Gomes]

Pakistan has an incredible bowling unit that's why these two gets away with their playstyle. Did very well today though

 

[SamNJ]

Another tricky chased nailed by them in a big game.

 

[Markhor]

Credit where its due, that was an excellent PP from them.

While NZ's bowling was insipid, they got ahead of the RRR and broke the back of what could've been a tricky chase. More of this intent and positivity going forward.

 

[OmaIR1]

In my opinion one of the biggest enablers for Babar is if the guy at the other end is scoring runs. When Rizwan is not scoring quickly I feel it puts more pressure on Babar.

 

[Bilal7]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is the 9th opening partnership of 100 or more by Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam in T20Is - the most by any batting duo in the history of T20Is <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NZvPAK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NZvPAK</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/T20WorldCup?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#T20WorldCup</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@SajSadiqCricket) <a href="https://twitter.com/SajSadiqCricket/status/1590295110604165122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Babar and Rizwan are the best batting partnership in T20 history.

 

[Kianig89]

We have to thank Conway for that otherwise Babar was a goner!

 

[shamaan]

the amount of hate they gave to both these guys and how they wanted them to be dropped.

Forget posters, even ex cricketers like Saleem malik saying God has sent us here and we will mess it up if we dont remove either

I was of the opinion Babar should drop down to 3 but before the semi final I said they should now not from drop down down 3 as some were stating haris should open.

 

[shamaan]

We have to thank Conway for that otherwise Babar was a goner!

Pakistan would have still won.

 

[shamaan]

I would still like to see Babar batting at 3 after this world cup.

 

[Saj]

We have to thank Conway for that otherwise Babar was a goner!

Always risky to have a part-time keeper as your first choice.

Sooner or later they will drop a big clanger.

 

[charlie007]

I hope Babar and Rizwan continue to grace the opening spots in T20Is for Pakistan for a very long time. I even pray they play 20 overs all among themselves. I’m a huge fan.

 

[Markhor]

Opening hasn't been easy in early season AUS conditions but another failure in a big match from this pair.

It's time to end this experiment, stop trying to reinvent the wheel, and join the world in utilising at least one hard hitting opener.

 

[Rana]

“Surely there is ease after hardship "