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Hasan Ali took the most wickets for Pakistan in this World Cup.
During this period, Hassan’s economy has been above 6.
Aaqib Javed said – Hasan is not a good bowler of the new ball
New Delhi. The eyes of the whole world are on the ‘high voltage’ match between India and Pakistan (India Vs Pakistan) to be held on Saturday 14 October in the World Cup 2023. This match will be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad and fans are expected to get an exciting cricket ‘feast’. The reason is that both the teams are full of confidence after winning their first two matches. While Pakistan has defeated Netherlands and Sri Lanka in its initial matches, Rohit Sharma’s Indian team has defeated Australia and Afghanistan.
If we look at the past records of both the teams in the World Cup, India has the upper hand. India has so far won all its seven matches against Pakistan in the ODI World Cup, but records are made only to be broken. It should also not be forgotten that Pakistan team has achieved an excellent victory of six wickets while chasing the highest score of the World Cup against Sri Lanka.
The team’s batting is in form and Abdullah Shafiq and Mohd. Rizwan had scored centuries against Sri Lanka. Talking about bowling, Hasan Ali has proved to be the most successful bowler of Pakistan in this World Cup so far, he has taken six wickets in two matches while Haris Rauf has five wickets in his account. Despite this performance of Hasan Ali, Shoaib Akhtar and Aaqib Javed are not completely satisfied.
In both the matches, Hasan has opened the Pakistani bowling along with Shaheen Shah Afridi. Aaqib Javed has raised questions on this bowler’s performance with the new ball. Let us tell you, Hasan’s economy in the World Cup is currently 6.11, which means he has spent more than six runs in every over.
According to the report of CricketPakistan.com, Aaqib said, ‘If you look at Hasan’s record, he has never been the best bowler of the new ball. In such a situation, if any day Shaheen’s balls are beaten then the problems of Pakistan team will increase. He said that Haris Rauf is also effective as a one-change bowler and tests the opposition batsmen with the speed of his balls.
Former fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar also has similar opinion about Pakistani bowlers. He said that till now the current bowlers have not been able to perform as per the requirement of ODI. This bowler has not yet lived up to the role of an ODI bowler. Let us tell you, bowling instead of batting is generally considered to be the strong side of Pakistan but so far in this World Cup, the story is the opposite.
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Pakistani bowling has looked scattered so far. Teams like Netherlands have also been successful in scoring 200+ against Pakistan. In the match against Sri Lanka, Pakistani bowlers gave away 344 runs. Well done to Abdullah Shafiq and Rizwan, with the help of whose centuries Pakistan was successful in achieving victory.
Apart from this, the form of Captain Babar Azam is also increasing the concern of the Pakistani camp. Babar has not been able to score big in both the World Cup matches. In the first match he was out after scoring 5 runs and in the second match he was out after scoring 10 runs. Anyway, Babar’s performance with the bat in ODI against India has not been special.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: October 13, 2023, 11:34 IST