After losing to the USA in the Super Over in the opening match of T20 World Cup 2024, Pakistan captain Babar Azam felt that their total of 159 for 7 in the regular time was a defendable one given the conditions and their bowling attack.
Babar Azam: Pakistan’s Total Defendable Despite Super Over Defeat
Sent in after losing the toss, Pakistan lost three early wickets and were 30 for 3 toward the end of the powerplay. Babar and Shadab Khan assisted them with recuperating with a stand of 72 off 48 for the fourth wicket; however, the USA tied the game and went on to win in the Super Over.
Today wicket had help for the quick bowlers in the first six overs, Babar said at the post-match presentation. In any case, later on, I didn’t feel it was an alternate wicket. It settled down a little. There was some juice in the air early in the morning. So that’s what they used to execute their plan.
Indeed, even in the subsequent innings, I think we likewise found help; however, we were not sufficient regarding our bowling areas. We needed that in the first ten overs. We returned after that yet they had proactively taken the momentum.
Babar Azam Critiques Pakistan’s Bowling Performance in T20 World Cup Opener
However, given the bowlers we have, we ought to have defended that total. On this pitch, I think it was a defendable all-out for our bowling.
“We are better to that in the bowling. We didn’t take wickets in the initial six overs. In the middle overs, on the off chance that your spinner isn’t taking wickets, then the tension is on you. After ten overs, we returned yet I think the manner in which they completed game in the Really Finished, the credit goes to the US team.”
For Pakistan, Mohammad Amir yielded 18 in the Over. It included three wide conveyances and seven additional items in all, as the USA players, Aaron Jones and Harmeet Singh, continued to run for wides as well. Pakistan, accordingly, could oversee just 13.
“He [Amir] is an accomplished bowler,” Babar Azam said. “He knows how to bowl and we were simply attempting to bowl as indicated by field. Be that as it may, I think the US batsmen were shrewd. In any event, when the ball went to the wicketkeeper, they were running. So I feel that thing was an or more point for them in the Over.”
Babar Azam Discusses Momentum Shifts and Middle Order Concerns in T20 World Cup Opener
At the point when Shadab and I had that partnership, we had momentum. I think when we lost the wickets one after the other, that was the defining moment. The momentum we had was moved towards the opposite side.
It was troublesome first and foremost; however, we concealed it. However, as an expert unit, the middle-order request needs to move forward in such circumstances. This isn’t a reason; I don’t think it was that they played well; I think we played severely. Obviously, at whatever point you come to any competition, you do the best arrangement generally, Babar Azam said.
“You can say it’s a sort of mindset. At the point when you face a team like this, you loosen up a bit. On the off chance that you don’t execute your arrangement against any team, then anything that team it is, they will make you pay. So I accept that our execution was not sufficient. We were doing great in the readiness yet in the match, we didn’t execute our plans as a team.”
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