It was probably a siege of fear that Babar Azam forgot at the time of the toss what his own strength was and where the weakness of the opponent was. The Australian batting was undoubtedly weaker than its original strength, but Babar should have remembered that his own bowling was strong today.

 

Sami Chaudhry's column on the first ODI between Pakistan and Australia: Pakistan lost out of fear



Farms like Hassan Ali are coming from PSL, she is screaming and saying that after recovering from the injury, she is trying harder than she can. In his own words, it is a fact that the human body also has some limitations.

 

In the last two Test matches, it was clear from Hassan's form that he was not able to lead the attack here but at the same time, with Shaheen Shah Afridi being unfit, Hassan Ali emerged as the only candidate for the role.

 

But it was up to Babar Azam to decide whether to bet on his best but tired horse or try a new trick.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then the decision to bowl first after winning the toss was a testament to Babar's own defensive tactics as such a form of Hassan Ali, the unavailability of Shadab Khan and then in the absence of Shaheen Afridi the Pakistani bowling attack was not capable of bowling first. By doing so, he would have halved the Australian batting line-up.

 

Despite the absence of Warner, Smith and Maxwell, the top order included certified batsmen such as Aaron Finch, Travis Head, Marin LeBushin and Alex Carey. Had Shaheen and Shadab been available, it would not have been so difficult for Babar to wrap up the Australian innings.

 

 

 

On the contrary, it would have been strategically better to test the first-ever Australian bowling if Pakistani snipers could have been more effective in the second innings.

 

However, Babar decided to bowl as soon as he won the toss, although under normal circumstances this decision would have been the best, as it would have made it easier for Aws to chase the target in the second innings. Attack will be able to give an achievable target to Pakistani batsmen?

 

For Babar, the answer to this question was in the affirmative that he expected, Hassan Ali and Wasim Jr. to attack the Australian top order in the same way that they attacked the Bangladeshi batting. And if Pakistan gets two or three wickets soon. If you go, then there were a lot of spin options.

 

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There would have been a target of around two and a half hundred and Pakistan would have taken advantage of the dew and crossed it laughing and playing.

But Travis Head turned the Australian innings so fast that Babar had no chance to think of an alternative plan. It was clear that the pacers' new ball was coming open on the bat and the spinners needed to be brought into attack immediately.

 

But fear held the whole understanding hostage so much that even if Babar changed the bowling, then he only brought peace. If the off-spinner had been used against Head in the beginning, the situation might have been different, but by the time Babar brought the spin into the attack, Head had set foot on the crease.

 

In the last two months, Babar Azam has lost so frequently as a captain that his decisions now reflect a mental breakdown. If you look at the end of the confusion, look at Pakistan's bowling card that the best pacer of the day, Haris Rauf, had only two overs left and Babar Hassan Ali's quota was being met.

 

And no matter what the hopes were, it was clear that Lahore's pitch would slow down in the second innings. The spinners start to take turns and the ball does not hit the bat properly. The only possibility for Pakistan to pursue such a dangerous target was to set the momentum of the innings in the top order power play.

 

But look at the good fortune that the flow of pride was suddenly deceived and Pakistani batting was again enclosed in its own shell. From there the struggle began to somehow take the match to the last ten overs and "then we'll see."

 

But as the match dragged on till the end, all the pawns of Pakistan fell one by one.

 

Then the last ten overs came but by then all those pavilions had returned, who thought that if the last ten overs came then we would see.