Ricky Ponting praised this player of Pakistan, said – will soon become the number 1 Test batsman
Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has insisted that Pakistan skipper Babar Azam will soon become the world’s number one Test batsman as he has all the desired qualities. Pakistan’s next match will be against Australia in the three-match Test series starting on March 4 in Rawalpindi. Babar Azam won the ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year award in January after beating competition from Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan, South African batsman Janman Malan and Ireland opener Paul Stirling. Babar Azam has been great in T20I cricket in the past too, hasn’t he? His white-ball cricket for the last four-five years has been breathtakingly good. He is like Shaheen. In the ICC review show, Ponting said that I do not get to see these people outside when they tour Australia, but when I saw Babar in the second innings in Brisbane in the first Test against Australia, some shots that I saw him playing on the brisk Brisbane. It was like this against Hazlewood, Starc and Cummins on both the pitch back and forth, I’ve heard a lot about him and I’ve seen a little bit of his ball, but this guy is the real deal. ( number 1 test batsman)
^ “My aim is to score runs in every country and at the home of the opponents.”
ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year Babar Azam reflects on his incredible 2021 pic.twitter.com/BmYYJuoO7F
— ICC (@ICC) January 26, 2022
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No. 1 ranked test batsman in the world
I guess I said then that the sky is the limit for this guy. It was only a matter of time before I realized that he was either going to be the No. 1 ranked Test batsman in the world or was definitely going to be challenging for it. He is probably challenging for that position right now and maybe if he had played a few more Test matches in the last few years, he would have knocked on the door for her. Azam ended 2021 scoring 405 runs at an average of 67.50. His knock of 158, though coming off a defeat, was a lesson in building an ODI innings. Taking 72 balls to complete his half-century, he kept his foot on the accelerator in the second half of the innings, ending with a career-best score of just 139 balls.
He can play well with back foot in Australia ( number 1 test batsman)
Ponting said he is a handsome player, simple as that. I always look with these young types of batsmen to see if they can play well with the back foot in Australia, and especially through the off-side with the straight bat – which is probably an area that Joe Root has yet to top. But why hasn’t he reached and why he hasn’t scored such a big score in Australia. He said that Babur did the same and hit the front foot back under the ground as well. These are just things that I look at as markers and indicators in the batsmen’s tour coming to Australia and Babar ticked both of those boxes. ( number 1 test batsman)
