New Delhi. Babar Azam is currently the world’s number-1 batsman. In such a situation, Pakistan was expected to perform well in the World Cup 2023, but the team has lost 2 out of 4 matches. In such a situation, his path to the semi-finals has become difficult. Any team needs to win 7 matches to advance to the semi-finals. In such a situation, Pakistan’s remaining five matches are now do-or-die. The team was defeated by 62 runs in the match against Australia on Friday. The team has slipped to 5th place in the points table. Each team has to play 9-9 matches in round robin. Top-4 teams will get a place in the semi-finals. New Zealand is first and India is second. Earlier, Team India defeated Pakistan by 7 wickets. Babar & Co have registered wins only against Netherlands and Sri Lanka so far.
Now let’s talk about the batting of the Pakistani team. In the year 2023, his batsmen could not hit a single six in the powerplay i.e. in the first 10 overs. His batsmen have faced 1142 balls during this period. That means Pakistan batsmen are not able to play big shots. Team India has hit the most sixes in the Powerplay in the year 2023. Indian batsmen have hit 43 sixes. Captain Rohit Sharma has contributed the most in this. Australian batsmen have hit 34 sixes while South African batsmen have hit 19 sixes.
Pakistan is also behind Nepal
Talking about other teams to hit sixes in Powerplay in 2023, West Indies hit 18, Sri Lanka 14, England 13, Netherlands 11, Bangladesh-New Zealand 10 each, Afghanistan 9 and Ireland 8. UAE batsmen have hit 7 sixes while Nepal batsmen have hit 6 sixes. That is, in terms of sixes, the performance of Pakistan’s batsmen is even worse than that of Nepal. If we talk about the batsmen who have hit the most number of sixes in ODIs in the year 2023, Indian captain Rohit Sharma is on top. He has hit 49 sixes. Talking about Pakistan, Iftikhar Ahmed has hit the most 11 sixes. That means no batsman could even reach 15 sixes.
Australia hit 19 sixes
In the 18th match of the World Cup 2023, Australia made a huge score of 367 runs for 9 wickets against Pakistan. Meanwhile, Kangaroo batsmen have hit 19 sixes. In reply, Pakistan scored 305 runs, but their batsmen could only hit 6 sixes. That means 13 sixes less than Australia. Former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik has targeted his own batsmen in this regard. He said that our batsmen cannot play modern day attacking cricket.
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No batsman could even hit 6 sixes
Talking about the performance of the World Cup 2023, no batsman of Pakistan has been able to touch the figure of 6 sixes so far. Abdullah Shafiq has hit the most number of sixes for the team. Mohammad Rizwan and Iftikhar Ahmed hit 3 sixes each. 4 batsmen have hit a six each. Captain Babar Azam scored 83 runs in 4 matches, but he could not hit a single six. Kusal Mendis of Sri Lanka has hit the most sixes in World Cup 2023. He has hit 14 sixes so far. Rohit Sharma is second with 13 sixes. David Warner has also hit 6 sixes.
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Tags: Babar Azam, World Cup 2023
First published: October 21, 2023, 13:53 IST