The Pakistan cricket team is set to take the field today in the semi-final 1 of the T20 World Cup 2022 edition against New Zealand. All eyes will be on Pakistan skipper Babar Azam and his opening partner Mohammad Rizwan.
However, this T20 World Cup hasn’t been a great one for Pakistan captain Babar Azam. Whereas, Mohammad Rizwan have had a decent campaign.
However, the bigger worry for the Pakistan fans is both of their openers doesn’t have a good strike date in the format which is really important in T20 cricket, especially in the powerplay.
For this reason, both Rizwan and Babar have had to face quite a lot of criticism from the fans. Meanwhile, just before the important match, there is a picture from old days doing rounds on social media.
The picture is from back in the year 2013 when Rizwan and Babar use to play for Pakistan U23 team. A Twitter user shared a scorecard picture from a U23 Asia Cup match between India and Pakistan with the intention to highlight Suryakumar Yadav can bowl as well.
However, fans were more intrigued to see that both Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan use to bat like same those days like they do today. In that match, Rizwan scored 21 runs from 27 balls, while Babar had a even worse record as he scored only 7 runs from 31 balls.
SKY: The bowler
— Varun Giri (@Varungiri0) November 8, 2022
Vs Pakistan
Final of Asia cup U23, 2013
β’10-1-20-2 π₯
THERE IS NOTHING THIS MAN CAN'T DOπ
Babar-Riwan opened the inning for Pakistan. Nawaz ,usman Qadir was also part of it
Bumrah, Kl Rahul,Axar patel in 11. pic.twitter.com/0mEL8kLreV
But statpadders were doing their job even then alsoππ
— Sumit Agarwal (@sumit_int) November 8, 2022
7 off 31
— Mr. Venkat (@zer0by0) November 9, 2022
Babar Azam's consistency.
Legend of @TukTuk_Academy
Kuch aadate kbhi nhi badalti..hats off to rizwan and babar they are so consistent from their early days..
— Rajesh Chauhan (β€18/10 forever) (@RajeshC99926172) November 8, 2022
Babar as usual
— Priyam Raj (@priyam1_raj) November 8, 2022
Babar and Rizwan have been trying to get admission in @TukTuk_Academy since then. https://t.co/jkiQKcKTBG
— πβ¬ (@AB_THE_BOSS) November 8, 2022
Babar was tuk tuking in this match too. https://t.co/wMai9XF3qN
— π¦π·πͺπΈ (@eIonruskk) November 8, 2022
