The bat of Babar Azam, who is captaining the Peshawar Zalmi team in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2024 season, is seen speaking strongly, in which his team is leading the points table by winning 4 out of 8 matches so far. Is in third place. At the same time, Babar Azam is at the first position in terms of scoring the most runs in this season of PSL. Babar Azam has so far scored 394 runs in 7 matches at an average of 65.67, in which his strike rate has also been seen at 152.12. In the match played against Multan Sultan on March 5, Babar scored 64 runs in just 40 balls in which 7 fours and 2 sixes were seen. Peshawar team won this match by 4 runs and Babar was also given the title of Player of the Match for his brilliant innings. After this, Babar also gave a statement regarding his strike rate during the presentation, which is being considered as an answer to the critics.
I don’t chase strike rate much
Babar Azam, while talking to Rameez Raja after winning the title of Player of the Match, said that he focuses more on his strength and not on increasing the strike rate. Regarding his captaincy, Babar also said that despite having the responsibility of captaincy, it has no effect on his batting. Let us tell you that after the shameful performance of the Pakistan team in the ODI World Cup 2023, Babar Azam had left the captaincy of the Pakistan team in all three formats. Babar Azam said during the match presentation that captaincy does not matter much to me, nowadays there is more talk about strike rate. It depends on what conditions I am playing in. People sitting outside only think that I should come and hit sixes, but that is not my strength. I just try to play to my strengths and constantly try to improve.
Babar has better average than Kohli and Warner in T20 cricket
Babar Azam may be criticized for his strike rate in the T20 format, but in terms of average, he appears to be far ahead of the current great batsmen Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and David Warner. While Babar has more than 10 thousand runs in his name in T20 cricket, his average till now has also been 44.29. While Virat Kohli’s average in T20 is 41.29, David Warner’s average is 37.12.
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