NEW DELHI: With a scrappy win over Ireland in their final group A game on Sunday, Pakistan wrapped up their woeful 2024 T20 World Cup campaign.
Chasing a lowly 107, Ireland gave Pakistan batters a run for their money as the 2009 champions nearly botched up again before crawling past the finish line in the penultimate over for the loss of 7 wickets.
While the bowlers performed decently, the batting unit once again, barring Babar Azam, disappointed.
The flop show from the batters, that resulted in loss against USA and India and their early ouster from the tournament, was once again exposed against Ireland.
Dissecting Pakistan’s horror run in the tournament, former England skipper Michael Vaughan said that there was no power in the former champions’ batting line-up.
“I just look at the way Pakistan bat and it’s very rare that you kind’a say this about any world batting line-up but I don’t think any bowler would be running into bowl, fearful of bowling to any of those players,” Vaughan said on a Cricbuzz show.
“Babar, you know, is not hurting anybody, staying in. He obviously gets them over the line. Fakhar Zaman can hit the ball but he hit one straight down mid-off’s throat, maybe he was in two minds, should I go hard or should I just just try and play sensible. There was a bit of a mentality issue. But I don’t think there are many batters that Pakistan have at the minute where the world bowlers would be running and ohh!, really fearful of bowling to this batting unit. They haven’t got the power at the minute in that unit,” Vaughan said.
After the clash against Ireland, skipper Babar also rued the mistakes his side made against India and the USA in its earlier Group A matches as the former champions bid adieu to the tournament with a consolation three-wicket win.
“I think with the bowling, conditions suited our bowlers. But in batting we made few mistakes in the matches against the USA and India. When you lose wickets, the pressure is on you,” said Babar in the post-match presentation ceremony.
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“We couldn’t finish off close games, and as a team we weren’t good,” he admitted.
Chasing a lowly 107, Ireland gave Pakistan batters a run for their money as the 2009 champions nearly botched up again before crawling past the finish line in the penultimate over for the loss of 7 wickets.
While the bowlers performed decently, the batting unit once again, barring Babar Azam, disappointed.
The flop show from the batters, that resulted in loss against USA and India and their early ouster from the tournament, was once again exposed against Ireland.
Dissecting Pakistan’s horror run in the tournament, former England skipper Michael Vaughan said that there was no power in the former champions’ batting line-up.
“I just look at the way Pakistan bat and it’s very rare that you kind’a say this about any world batting line-up but I don’t think any bowler would be running into bowl, fearful of bowling to any of those players,” Vaughan said on a Cricbuzz show.
“Babar, you know, is not hurting anybody, staying in. He obviously gets them over the line. Fakhar Zaman can hit the ball but he hit one straight down mid-off’s throat, maybe he was in two minds, should I go hard or should I just just try and play sensible. There was a bit of a mentality issue. But I don’t think there are many batters that Pakistan have at the minute where the world bowlers would be running and ohh!, really fearful of bowling to this batting unit. They haven’t got the power at the minute in that unit,” Vaughan said.
After the clash against Ireland, skipper Babar also rued the mistakes his side made against India and the USA in its earlier Group A matches as the former champions bid adieu to the tournament with a consolation three-wicket win.
“I think with the bowling, conditions suited our bowlers. But in batting we made few mistakes in the matches against the USA and India. When you lose wickets, the pressure is on you,” said Babar in the post-match presentation ceremony.
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“We couldn’t finish off close games, and as a team we weren’t good,” he admitted.
