Pakistan coach Matthew Hayden has said that he will go into the ICC T20 with the same opening pair of Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan. World Cup semi-final against New Zealand in Sydney Cricket In the field on Wednesday, despite both, the team did not get the good start they expected from him.
While Azam and Rizwan are Pakistan’s number one opening pair, their bottom-line performances here have led experts to ask the team management to push the captain down the batting order, but Hayden said that there is no need to soak up the pressure in situations of big matches. His experience makes him the ideal candidate to open the innings.
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“Babar and Rizwan are truly the number one combination. If I can take your mind back to a different World Cup, it was the 2007 World Cup and Adam Gilchrist had a lean World Cup for that undefeated campaign for Australia,” Hayden said.
“If you remember that last match against Sri Lanka, he scored an incredible century and realized his potential in that tournament and woke the world once again to the fact that he was such a premium batsman in that format of the game.
“It is always nice to have two players who have felt the pressure, and we all feel that pressure at some point in our careers. No different for the number one combination, no different for the number four T20 player in Babar,” Hayden said.
Expressing his confidence in the batting abilities of the two top-order batsmen, Hayden himself a legendary Australian opener said, “Special players often don’t stay down for long”. “And don’t be surprised if you don’t see some fireworks because of certain players,” he said.
Describing his team’s roller-coaster journey into the semi-finals, Hayden said it was an incredible experience, seeing the Netherlands’ shock loss to South Africa just before Pakistan’s game against Bangladesh gave his team “uplifting momentum.” Found it.
“Shadab (Khan) actually said something very important in the dugout the other day when we were playing our last match (against Bangladesh), and he said, ‘Welcome to Pakistan cricket’. That is, any day something And on that particular day, when the Netherlands beat South Africa, it was a pivotal moment for us in the tournament and a very important moment for the team in general around their ability to reach that potential.
“Lots of prayers as soon as Pakistan woke up to see that result (Netherlands beat South Africa). 232 million people can’t be wrong. And as a result, I think there was a lot of encouraging momentum in our group, which made that match against Bangladesh almost certain for Pakistan.
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“Unbelievable experience, as you are right, it has been a roller coaster ride but a ride that I would not have any other way because the last World Cup we went to was undefeated and Australia beat us in the semi-finals. Had given. So, really important for Pakistan,” he said.
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