Pakistan and Bangladesh commenced their test series yesterday, Pakistan was invited to bat first but they didn’t get the start that was expected they lost 4 wickets within 50 runs, Babar Azam got out on zero so it created a buzz over social media for not playing properly.
However, later Mohammed Rizwan and Saud Shakeel played an impressive innings and scored 446 runs in the first innings but later they declared.
Basit Ali on Babar Azam’s dismissal
On day 1, Pakistan was struggling with the bat as they had lost 4 wickets and in that Babar Azam was just a guest of 2 balls he lost his wicket very early which created trouble for Pakistan, however, former Pakistan batter Basit Ali speaks about the dismissal of Babar Azam. Basit Ali said:
“The whole world talks about it when Babar Azam gets out. There are just two such players – Virat Kohli and Babar Azam. When they score a hundred, they get a lot of praise, but when they get out early, they get slammed heavily. We saw it happen when Virat Kohli got out in all three matches of the Sri Lanka series.”
“Shan Masood was not out. No matter what people say, the ball missed the bat. It hit the pad. Shan Masood did a stupid thing of immediately looking behind after missing the ball. He gave a chance to the third umpire.”
“I had earlier pointed out that the nets in Pakistan are very close to the batters. If he leaves the ball, he has to go pick up the ball and throw it at the bowler. Because of this, a habit has been formed that the batters try to hit every ball.”
“He shuffled a lot on the very first ball that he faced. He is focusing on batting on the off stump to make sure he doesn’t get out in the slips. He was playing Shaheen Afridi the same way in the nets. Do you don’t get out on the leg side? On the ball that he got out, you can see that the leg stump was visible. It is a wrong technique. You need to get set on such pitches. When there is a channel bowling, you have to fight it out and block your shots. This is not T20 cricket where you will hit blindly.”
Whenever Babar Azam or Virat Kohli loses there wicket early then whole social media starts discussing or trolling them on there poor performance. But it’s part and parcel of life they just let them go and focus on the next game.