They are ok, not that great to be honest. I remember a while back they had Raina who used to play in the middle order and he was pretty much like Imad Waseem when it came to short stuff. I don’t know much about their recent batsmen. Kohli is of course the number 1 in the world so he has to be good. Sharma and Dhawan are good as well, but don’t know much about the rest.
Our guys are fine with the short balls relatively but we just had a pretty bad day. I think the idea was to cut the risk so avoid playing pulls. But the the umpires just started making the weird decision of not calling hem wides when WI abused the short delivery. So they felt obligated to play them and made some bad shot selections. Fakhar was the only one who truly got beaten for pace. Hafeez looked like he was double minded whether to leave or play. He would have put that ball away for four or six more often than not.
We had a few bad outs down leg as well which is a sign that the batsmen were indecisive. I think you gotta play positive and if you see a ball that you can hit, just go for it.
Apart from Imad wasim, the batsmen we have are capable of handling short stuff and this score does not give a true representation of their skill. Sure it’s not as good as Australia, South Africa, etc but it’s not as bad either as our score today.
