You cannot have a non-performing cricketer in your team.
He’s a performing captain. How did it go for Pakistan once you replaced him with a performing player who has the captain’s armband?
Performances is usually something that can be worked on.
It's great to see someone put together a chart since it can be hard for people to grasp that Sarfaraz has excelled as a T20 captain.
It's a shame that there wasn't a T20 World Cup in 2018. The Pakistan T20 side from 2016-18 under Sarfraz was a great team and remarkably consistent for a format where you don't see much consistency.
Same story today. Played one less spinner and didn't even bowl out Imad. He doesn't even learn from his mistakes.
The thing is Babar's lack of acceleration is something he can easily improve but i doubt he'll improve tactically.
His numbers are actually not bad for the past two years. He has struck at 140+ since 2023. But the quality of oppositions is in question and even now we see Babar go 4-5 overs sometimes without hitting a boundary. I think he did that in that match against New Zealand a few weeks ago where he cracked 69 off 40something balls. Despite getting a fluid start he couldn't score any runs in the middle period.
He definitely have a much higher ceiling than Rizwan but you can not usually see the urgency in his batting as much as there should be. He sometimes seems contend with hovering at 120 SR when he should really be looking to take the charge. Till 2020, he had a lot of quick starts and he was much more open to taking risks and scoring boundaries. But since assuming captaincy, I have seen that part of his batting in t20is minimising. I'd really like hiim to take his batting to the next level by being a bit more fearless and adding more power to his game and become a better player of spin (obviously). I hope Kirsten can make him realize he can be much more than what he is doing currently.
The main thing is that the team’s plans are being executed. This intent will be visible to you in the next matches, which is the series against England. We will try to take this momentum forward. Winning a series gives you confidence, and you will get to see good cricket in England. We had rested Naseem Shah, played Hasan Ali, and we tried a different combination. We were struggling in the middle overs, so we made a slight change. We have come up with a different pattern.
Masaba will regain his top spot soon
Who even cares about this statistic?
Stats really dont matter if u r not willing to win any manjor tournament.
Sometimes you have to let the players sink or swim.
It's very sad really. 55M, 4th richest ICC board, minnow level team
Not even Indian fans will pick Iyer over Babar.
I disagree I think it was the correct decision to play the one spinner as thier was literally no turn if they were to pick a spinner it would have been abrar.
Despite being there no turn spinners did well. Saim and Imad did well in 2nd T20 and Imad Wasim did well in the third ODI. I believe Abrar would have done well. It was worth the try.
4th richest board and see condition of the grounds here
That's becouse they are orthodox bowlers they don't have variation and bowl wicket to wicket.
Most wickets are flat nowadays, you think Abrar shouldn’t be in the playing XI unless there is some help for the spinners in the pitch?
Exactly but some slaves of India who call themselves Pakistani would take iyer.
@jnaveen1980 @Nikhil_cric @Hitman
Am sure theirs alot more Indian fans on this page than the these names you mentioned.
Abrar is a quality spinner but the pitches were tiny if they need a second spinner for the world Cup Abrar gets in ahead of Shadab.
What kind of brain dead Indian fan would want Babar in their side over Iyer?
Name them all I'll ping em all
@shamaan JEE ping the other Indian posters as well. Let's tally this everywhere.
Shreyas Iyer is far more dangerous and capable of causing damage to the opposition than Babar.
Your favourite fan mamoon
Haan can't back up your og claim? Good, stay humble and sit down, iyer > Bobby deal with it.
Insult to Iyer. Babar needs to be compared to Balbirnie
We can criticize Babar for playing selfishly but you can't deny that he is one of the best players Pakistan has ever had. So criticize him where it's due not unnecessarily.
lol
Bro the conversation started with someone else claiming that babar is a better no 4 then iyer in odi, had to discuss and spread my knowledge to this blessed world.We can criticize Babar for playing selfishly but you can't deny that he is one of the best players Pakistan has ever had. So criticize him where it's due not unnecessarily.
but still if u still want to compare him with Iyer so i will tag @Mohraheem here and will claim that momin wants Ifti to become a captain of Pakistan team
Ye galaaat haiWe can criticize Babar for playing selfishly but you can't deny that he is one of the best players Pakistan has ever had. So criticize him where it's due not unnecessarily.
but still if u still want to compare him with Iyer so i will tag @Mohraheem here and will claim that momin wants Ifti to become a captain of Pakistan team
uthaaaa le re Baba Uthaaa le Mujhe nahy reee! Ifthi ko Uthaaa le
Bro you reminded me of the scene in 3 idiots where raju says "Utha lei virus ko aur uss kei pakorei banao"Ye galaaat hai
Yes you can, In the same way I can say ab de villers is better then Bobby.
LOL. Then everybody is better than Babar if you are comparing players on just comparison bases.
Yes everyone is better then Babar.
Sure brother. I agree.
As a T20 opener, Babar’s competition is Balbirnie, Zadran, Nissanka
Shreyas in not that good when it comes to t20 but still termed better than him. Not sure what the criteria is
I was talking about odi bro. T20 was never brought to light in the earlier conversations.
I was kidding lol, Babar from 2016-2021 is a decent player.
| Format | Matches | Innings | Not Outs | Runs | High Score | Average | Balls Faced | Strike Rate | 100s | 50s | 4s | 6s |
| T20I | 51 | 47 | 11 | 1104 | 74* | 30.7 | 811 | 136.1 | 0 | 8 | 90 | 44 |
Who brought t20 up
Fair point. just saw your post aboveWho brought t20 up
here.
Babar unlike t20 is a decent odi player. He's garbage in t20 as it is not his format in the same vein hasim amla even in prime wasn't a t20 player.
Shreyas is a killer player of spin. If Babar bats in his position, you will see the clear gulf in difference between the two
Babar: Arei naqvi, yei kerei pitch pei hum khel rahei hain, too spin friendly for me, rizwan aur mein khush nahi hain
Naqvi sab agar Unka spinner Sodhi nahi tou aisi pitch nahi banate
The only reason he has these records is because he is the only one chasing them in t20
Chacha forced them to take it
Ifthikhar is not a bowler! He is only a fluke batsmen. Don’t understand over hyping of Chacha so much by his delusional fan
Will they cut a cake for this too?
Stats are meaningless. Always heard people saying that but seeing Babar stat padding his way to the top of the leaderboard above high impact, world class batters like Kohli and Sharma really exemplifies this saying. If I were blind and could not see cricket on TV and judging solely on stats would lead me to believe that Babar is a better batsman than Kohli and Sharma.
Ofc he isn't a bowler, but he can roll his arm just like Livingston did for Eng.
Chacha is a student of Shadab’s academy.
