“It’s never more important”: Hayden eager to take trophy back to Pakistan – ICC T20 World Cup

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Pakistan have been unstoppable so far in the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021.

With four fifties in the five games, he is currently equalled Virat Kohli’s record for most fifties in a single edition of the men’s T20 World Cup.

In fact I’d go as far as to say he’s almost the opposite personality to someone like Virat Kohli, who’s very animated, very passionate, and very boisterous on the field.

“Babar Azam the batsman is highly talented, as you mentioned, and just to give you an insight into that talent, his ability to be able to consistently react to the ball is really second to none that I’ve seen.

And then when he gets into the middle stages of the match, he also has the ability through just good cricket shots to find his natural tempo, which is a strike rate of around 140, 150 and beyond.

“Yeah, his high-quality pace is most certainly part of his arsenal, and the white ball doesn’t swing for a long time in T20 cricket in particular it seems to be a number of balls, not a number of overs.

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