"What Virat Kohli does, I want to try to do the same and emulate him" : Babar Azam

[Sin Nombre]

Super effort by Babar against a poor SA attack.

 

[Harshu814]

There are always excuses for not winning games. At the end of the day, Babar so far has not showing the ability to conjure magic in such moments.

Other big players have won big games from such situations before, even though they had the excuse to fail like Babar did today.

There are always 99 excuses to fail and 1 excuse to succeed. It is understandable that our fans will do bhangra on this innings, but these type of performances have been a common theme of his career so far.

Not a fan of babar but he played ok!!! People will still criticise had he done 30(25) ,he did great that strike rate is good

On everyball six can be hit but does that mean we expect it? He did his part , rest failed big time.

Just forget everything.... Cant u score 15 in last over? Are u saying we dont often see teams chasing 15 in last over?

I would love to have someone like babar playing for india at slot #4

 

[Madplayer]

There are always excuses for not winning games. At the end of the day, Babar so far has not showing the ability to conjure magic in such moments.

Other big players have won big games from such situations before, even though they had the excuse to fail like Babar did today.

There are always 99 excuses to fail and 1 excuse to succeed. It is understandable that our fans will do bhangra on this innings, but these type of performances have been a common theme of his career so far.

Pakistan is solely dependent on Babar. Other big players from other teams always have players who chip in to make things easier for the star players.

 

[Oxfordchamp]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/...south-africa-2nd-semi-final-world-t20-2013-14

One more..

 

[Smudger]

There are always excuses for not winning games. At the end of the day, Babar so far has not showing the ability to conjure magic in such moments.

Other big players have won big games from such situations before, even though they had the excuse to fail like Babar did today.

There are always 99 excuses to fail and 1 excuse to succeed. It is understandable that our fans will do bhangra on this innings, but these type of performances have been a common theme of his career so far.

Has kohli never failed in a crunch moment? You need support cast as well. Kohli failed at a similar situation in 3rd t20 vs eng 2nd t20 vs aus 2016 ,vs w.i in the one of 2018 odi ,

 

[Bhaijaan]

Bobby wasted a brilliant start today. Should have gone with he flow instead of slowing down needlessly.

 

[cr7great]

the batting of babar azam after powerplay lost pakistan match

 

[TheNeutralist]

The opposition (SA) bowling was nothing great at all, cannot compare to Kohli

Babar played well, but should have finished it.

 

[Madplayer]

the batting of babar azam after powerplay lost pakistan match

And whose batting could have won Pakistan the game? They dont have any batsmen. Its Babar or bust.

 

[Darkrai]

There are always excuses for not winning games. At the end of the day, Babar so far has not showing the ability to conjure magic in such moments.

Other big players have won big games from such situations before, even though they had the excuse to fail like Babar did today.

There are always 99 excuses to fail and 1 excuse to succeed. It is understandable that our fans will do bhangra on this innings, but these type of performances have been a common theme of his career so far.

It's not about excuses, when Babar got out we were in a great position to win the match. The fault is with the players who couldn't even do the basics correctly.

You bring up Kohli a lot, he scored 3 100s against WI, but India won only 1 of those matches-it was the match where Rohit also scored a 100. When Babar scored his 100s against WI we won all those matches. I'm not putting Kohli down but i think people are being to harsh on Babar. He is only getting better.

Hopefully the team management is working on his power game.

 

[OmarKhan99]

What new thing did we learn today? This was stereotypical Babar knock.

A run machine with beautiful stroke-play, but struggles to clear the rope and always manages to not take Pakistan home by getting out at the wrong time.

Babar does lack a bit of power hitting (read slogging ability), but today he was doing it easy until he cramped up towards the end. Also, today he had that killer look in his eyes - the kind of look which illustrated that he really wanted to finish the game.

He may never become a Virat Kohli, but I reckon he's not far off (if at all) from where Kohli was at the same age. Very refreshing to see!

 

[Minnowbasher]

Us Pakistani fans really have no shame. Firstly, we lost the match so babars innings was useless. Secondly why are we comparing babar azam to virat kohli. Kohli is out of this world and no1 will ever reach his level in lois. The quicker we realise that the better. Kohli is far far superior to babar in all 3 formats but there is no shame in that as that doesn't make babar a bad batsman. Babar is a good player no doubt but like mamoon said he still has many flaws such as taking us over the line.

 

[a_tahir]

Us Pakistani fans really have no shame. Firstly, we lost the match so babars innings was useless. Secondly why are we comparing babar azam to virat kohli. Kohli is out of this world and no1 will ever reach his level in lois. The quicker we realise that the better. Kohli is far far superior to babar in all 3 formats but there is no shame in that as that doesn't make babar a bad batsman. Babar is a good player no doubt but like mamoon said he still has many flaws such as taking us over the line.

Exactly. We should only see Babar as a player that could become pakistan's greatest LOI batsman. Kohli is on another level

 

[MP2011]

Great innings by Babar yesterday. Excellent strokeplay. Pity he scored 18 off 15 after his 50 but I guess, you can't expect anyone to go on at same rate for his entire innings. There would be moments like these in every innings.

All in all, Babar wasn't the reason Pakistan lost yesterday.

 

[Sir Alex]

Yeah let's go easy on the kid. He's one of the pillars of Pak batting already and looks like going down the Alltime Great Pak batsman list.

 

[latecut]

Instead of trying to match someone, a player should just try to do the best he can. This comparison puts unnecessary pressure on him. I am surprised that this comparison hype is created by a responsible man like Micky Arthur, and that too after his team loses a series. If one looks at it dispassionately, not just Kohli, Indian batsmen like Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan are also ahead of Babar Azam.

 

[rhony]

It was his best T20 innings off late. His slowing down was to get that elusive hundred in SA. Don't think Pak lost the match because of it. Babar will learn to finish the game next time if he's in the position. Babar is a Prince and fans can't wait for him to be the king and win games outright. It will happen. Maybe in this WC

 

[TNAmarkFromIndia]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/...south-africa-2nd-semi-final-world-t20-2013-14

One more..

This is still my favourite T20I knock of Virat Kohli. He was in red-hot form and had been performing in pretty much every match of that World T20 for India so people thought that the law of averages would catch up and a failure was overdue and yet he delivered again despite it being the semi-finals against a team like South Africa which had the likes of Steyn and Morkel.

Kohli not only set-up the chase but he also finished it keeping the run rate in check all the way. Whenever the run rate seemed to be climbing, he went for a big shot and it came back down again. Not to mention all the singles and doubles he ran that made up for 40 of his 72 runs. A couple of lucky boundaries by Raina helped for sure, but this was Virat Kohli at his very best that just seemed unstoppable and hungry to win.

 

[IAJ]

For me as a Pakistani fan, Babar or any other pakistani batsman for that matter can score as may runs as they want, but as long as they don’t win the matches for their country those runs have no values for me at least. They will be good for their personal stats and for fans to fight with each other on who is best etc.

But I want players who take their teams home in crunch situations. For instannce that knock Abdul Razzaq played in one of ODI’s in UAE against South Africa, you remember those performances.

 

[BaankeJi]

Us Pakistani fans really have no shame. Firstly, we lost the match so babars innings was useless. Secondly why are we comparing babar azam to virat kohli. Kohli is out of this world and no1 will ever reach his level in lois. The quicker we realise that the better. Kohli is far far superior to babar in all 3 formats but there is no shame in that as that doesn't make babar a bad batsman. Babar is a good player no doubt but like mamoon said he still has many flaws such as taking us over the line.

We are comparing Babar to Virat because of the title of the thread.

 

[MelbOz]

Going to be a great of the game.

 

[Mobashir]

The bowling attack which Kohli faced was way better than SA's bowling attack today and you have to be extremely biased to not see that.

a T20 attack of Hazlewood, Coulter Nile, Faulkner, Watson, Maxwell and Zampa, is absolutely rubbish; No need to compare it with any other attack.
You just don't talk about the quality of a bowling unit and bring an innings against these bowlers.

 

[Tyler Durden]

a T20 attack of Hazlewood, Coulter Nile, Faulkner, Watson, Maxwell and Zampa, is absolutely rubbish; No need to compare it with any other attack.
You just don't talk about the quality of a bowling unit and bring an innings against these bowlers.

True! Rubbish than the SA-C side's club level bowlers Hendricks, Dalas and Shamsis! But Kohli atleast took his team to Finals of the WC event by chasing the set total and this softie couldn't even win a game against the SA-C club level bowlers! That's the irony! ) Tell me honesty, how many games did Babar win for Pakistan while chasing against decent teams in all formats?

 

[Maliq_Mudasir]

Ok lets do one thing. Drop Babar till he develops Afridi within him. Give maximum chances to highly talented and naturally gifted players like Talat and Asif Ali.

 

[anoop]

a T20 attack of Hazlewood, Coulter Nile, Faulkner, Watson, Maxwell and Zampa, is absolutely rubbish; No need to compare it with any other attack.
You just don't talk about the quality of a bowling unit and bring an innings against these bowlers.

Still better than this SA attack and that was in a knockout T20 WC match not some random series.

 

[MeanAndGreen]

Superb talent. Always held the belief that he was the best batsman in the country despite all the edgy experts on here asking from him to be dropped.

He has a long way to go until he can be considered an elite level player - comparing him to Kohli who is a level above legendary is ridiculous from Pakistani fans by the way. We have never had a player 80% as good as Kohli so lets not try and put ridiculous expectations on this kid, especially considering the fact hes batting with 10 other duds. I'm sure he realises this and that he continues to work hard because he is an exceptional batsman.

He is a natural strokemaker who's SR on the LO leg of this tour has comfortably exceeded the "power hitters" such as Fakhar, Asif, etc. Lovely to see also that all the haters have now disappeared into the wilderness. I won't name anyone or call anyone out but some of the vitriol that was being posted about Babar only just 6 months ago was beyond belief. There was one particular poster on here who was actually happy every time that he was dismissed and surprise surprise, he is nowhere to be seen as well...

Anyways, there's still a long way to go until he becomes truly elite, lets hope for Pakistans sake that he continues to work hard and push his limits even further.

 

[Dr_Bassim]

He is more natural than Kohli. His shots are effortless and it is like watching poetry in motion.

Will he overtake Kohli? Probably not, because it takes more than talent to reach heights that Kohli has scaled.

You need to want it more than anything else in the world.

From the little I have seen of Babar, he is happy to stay in his comfort zone and as soon as he goes outside his comfort zone (trying to slog yesterday for example) it doesn't suit him at all.

He is still young so he will improve, but not everyone can be Kohli but there is no shame in being 2nd fiddle to the best batsmen of the generation.

However, if in the next few years, his desire to excel gets magically inputted into his system, he will break all records including Tendulkar's, what to talk of Kohli.

 

[Romali_rotti]

I hope Babar turns into an ATG, Pakistan needs a super star batsmen... Come on Babar, I hope you end up being becoming better than Kohli....

 

[Shafi]

But .....
1. Kohli has more muscle power, intense and hunger for more runs which Babar lacks off.
2. Plus Kohli steers team home while Babar struggle in crucial stage to lead his team to victory
3. Babar only performs against weaker opposition like WI, SL...
4. Can't cope with pressure where Kohli easily overcome.

 

[Corridor of Uncertainty]

If we must compare to an Indian, Tendulkar will be a more apt comparison. Not saying Babar is Tendulkar.

Just that both are head and shoulders above their teammates in a weak team.

Tendulkar's batting really became much more valuable when Ganguly and Sehwag brought winning mentality to Indian team. Babar is waiting for his team to rise.

 

[MP2011]

Tendulkar's batting really became much more valuable when Ganguly and Sehwag brought winning mentality to Indian team.

lol, it were not Ganguly or Sehwag alone who brought winning mentality to Indian cricket. Just a small matter of them being far better bats than who they replaced in Indian team. Plus a small matter of cancers like Azhar & Jadeja being removed from Indian team.

 

[MP2011]

Also, Tendulkar's batting became more valuable just as bowlers like Zaheer & Bhajji started to crop up. A batsman can't win for his team if his bowlers are crap.