When asked about the famous cricket match between India and Pakistan, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar remarked that former Pakistan captain Babar Azam’s bowling adjustments made no sense to him at all.
The match between India and Pakistan included a player whose name was on everyone’s mind: Shaheen Shah Afridi. During Pakistan’s match against India in the Asia Cup 2023 on Saturday, the tall and lanky bowler was the driving force behind Pakistan’s attack, as he took out two of the top players in Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli.
First, Afridi struck out the captain of the Indian team, Rohit Sharma, and then he got the best batsman in the Indian lineup, Virat Kohli, out. The star bowler’s four-fer was one of the highlights of the match between India and Pakistan that took place at the Pallekele International Stadium. He was able to keep the Indian supporters in the stadium silent.
If you have three bowlers and the pace bowlers having got the early wickets, you want to maintain at least one ongoing from one end, which is why the bowling changes didn’t make any sense, in my opinion, since they were counterproductive.
According to the comment of Sunil Gavaskar in India Today, “I am aware that you can’t really go through long spells of bowling, but one person could have been bowling from one end and Shadab or Nawaz from the other end.”
Sunil Gavaskar took the opportunity to subtly poke fun at Babar by stating that the Pakistani captain had missed a trick as India was able to stabilise the situation despite losing wickets early on. As a result of the relationship that Hardik and Ishan forged, India was able to score a respectable total of 266 runs on the board.
Sunil Gavaskar was of the opinion that India would not have been able to pass the 200-mark if Babar had introduced Shaheen at an earlier stage.
When the tall pacer finally came to the pitch, India already had 239 runs on the board.”I mean India will be saying a big thank you because that’s what allowed the partnership to flourish because otherwise, if one of the pacers had taken just that one wicket between Ishan Kishan and Hardik Pandya, then maybe India would have struggled to reach even 175, 200,” Gavaskar added. “I mean India will be saying a big thank you because that’s what allowed the partnership to flourish.”