T20 World Cup 2022: Pakistan over dependent on Babar Azam and Mohammed Rizwan: Sanjay Bangar

Hopes
were
pinned
on
Pakistan’s
famed
opening
duo
consisting
skipper
Azam
and
wicketkeeper/batter
Rizwan
with
both
failing
to
get
going
in
the
ICC
Men’s
T20
World
Cup
2022
in
Australia.

The
opening
combination
were
never
short
of
disturbing
the
Indian
bowling
department
in
their
tournament
opener
nor
did
they
come
close
to
creating
any
sort
of
impact
in
the
crucial
Super
12
match
against
Zimbabwe.

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With
a
lot
of
run
scoring
dependent
on
Babar
and
Rizwan,
the
others
have
to
come
to
the
party
if
Pakistan
have
to
progress
ahead
and
now
are
dependent
on
the
results
of
other
teams.

Speaking
on

Star
Sports
(the
official
broadcaster
of
ICC
T20
World
Cup
2022)
show

Cricket
Live,
former
Team
India
batting
coach
Sanjay
Bangar
spoke
on
how
Pakistan
is
over-dependent
on
Babar
and
Rizwan
to
score
runs
for
the
team
and
that
the
middle
order
batsmen
too
need
to
star
firing.

“Having
watching
them
since
the
Asia
Cup,
we
all
know
the
over
dependency
of
Pakistani
batting
on
Babar
and
Rizwan.
The
moment
these
two
players
get
out,
it
sends
shivers
in
the
dressing
room
and
in
the
dugout
and
that’s
never
an
ideal
sign.

“All
credit
to
Iftakhar
and
Shan,
because
even
in
the
first
game
against
India,
they
sort
of
held
their
innings
together
and
brought
Pakistan
in
the
game,
having
lost
their
main
batters
cheaply.

I
feel,
at
times,
having
not
to
play
together
during
practice
matches,
dismissed
in
the
first
game
and
again
in
the
second
game
means
that
the
middle
order,
which
hasn’t
been
firing
for
them,
has
to
do
bulk
of
the
work
and
it
is
never
an
ideal
scenario
for
any
team
wherein
the
middle
order
is
so
freckle
that
they
cannot
handle
the
pressure
so
quickly.”

Bangar
further
spoke
on
the
pressure
that
Pakistan
must
be
going
through
having
lost
both
their
games,
“Well,
they
will’ve
to
really
stare
at
the
reality
now.
What’s
the
outcome?
Yes,
a
lot
of
results
have
to
go
their
way.
Maybe,
a
couple
of
rain
affected
matches
can
also
be
the
saviour
for
them,
but
they’ve
sort
of
let
things
out
of
their
control
because
the
game
against
Zimbabwe
was
well
within
their
grasp.

“There
were
so
many
occasions
wherein
they
could
have
cruised
to
the
target
quite
easily.
In
the
sense
that,
Shan
Masood
dismissal
or
Shadab
Khan’s
dismissal,
even
till
the
very
last
over,
the
way
Wasim
and
Nawaz
were
playing
at
that
point.
Nawaz
is
indecision
at
times,
was
questionable
because
he
had
spent
a
lot
of
time
till
that
point
and
he
could
have
finished
the
game.”

Pakistan’s
next
game
is
against
the
Netherlands
at
the
Optus
Stadium
in
Perth
on
Sunday
(October
30).

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