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He’s played 18 Odis which is the same as Rohit Sharma also he completely flopped in the nz tour at start of the year.
I will let that go as that might have been bad form.
But against India he should have built his innings and scored a 100 he had A LOT OF OVERS.
Don’t OVERESTIMATE him
He’s not been impressive at all in the odi format this year.
2019 will truly define him as a cricketer as this year is where he will show his potential.
5 Odis against SA, 5 Odis against AUS, 5 Odis against Eng, Wc.
Ahmad Shahzad was said to be the next Virat Kohli but in the 2011 we he was completely exposed.
I hope that doesn’t happen with Babar Azam.
Yeah, he had a poor year, in one format, Shehzad had a poor career in all formats. How can you even compare him to Shehzad? Plus you are also comparing him to Rohit Sharma, one of the if not the best LOI Opener in the world right now. How is that fair for a guy who is only 24? His innings in SA shows that he is only going to improve as on such a pitch like that your boy Shehzad would get out for a single digit score and say "Oh yeah looking at the pitch and the bowlers that innings was worth a half ton." How does one in the right state of mind compare any young prodigy to that bloke? Plus Shehzad had a poor work ethic with no drive to succeed. His behavioral issues are well documented it look it up if you need.
No one is "OVERESTIMATING" Babar he has played international Cricket for 3 years now, and for the most of it, he has been by far our best T20I and ODI bat. This year he further established his dominance by being our Best Test Batsman as well. In T20I's he is the quickest to 1000 runs, and that demonstrates his consistency in that form. Yes, this year he had a poor run against NZ and in the Asia Cup, but tell me this who did good in those two series? Any batsman who performed, any bowler? No, and he along with the rest of the ODI team showed some form in the NZ series.
Babar is the last batsman about whom we should worry. Even in that match against India where you suppose he should have converted, "but he got out" let me assure you he was the only batsman who got dismissed by the bowler in that innings as he got a beauty from Kuldeep. Any batsman would have struggled to cope with that ball. The other batsman shouldn't have thrown their wicket away. Concerning what you said at the top there that he played 18 ODI's he played this year and that they can't all be down to bad form? Wait what, first of all, he had 17 innings, and in about 13 of them I would say he performed poorly. So what you are saying is that 39 innings can be fluked but then 13 bad innings this year cannot be attributed to poor form? Wake up; all players have rough patches even Virat Kohli averaged 30ish in 2015. It's how they pick themselves up that counts — the fact that he has scored in Tests and T20I's heavily this year should be evidence to the fact that he will bounce back next year.
ODI's have been Babar's strongest format he will come back strong next year. Furthermore, regarding the Shehzad and Virat comparisons; Please tell me how many Tests, ODI's and T20I's Shehzad had played up until 2011? The sample size was so small to compare Shehzad to anyone at that point was ridiculous. Take a look at Shehzad and Babar 3 years into their careers, and you will understand yourself that Babar is no Shehzad. You can have a lucky first year where you score some runs and stuff but 3 years are enough to judge a batsman and the potential he has.
