{"id":9230,"date":"2024-03-12T07:17:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T07:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=9230"},"modified":"2024-03-12T07:17:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T07:17:58","slug":"babar-expresses-dissatisfaction-with-move-to-one-down-in-t20is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=9230","title":{"rendered":"Babar expresses dissatisfaction with move to one down in T20Is"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"8948\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Aug-24-2023-13.12.30_baber-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Aug-24-2023-13.12.30_baber-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Aug-24-2023-13.12.30_baber-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Aug-24-2023-13.12.30_baber-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Aug-24-2023-13.12.30_baber-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Aug-24-2023-13.12.30_baber.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lahore : Babar has excelled as an opener for Peshawar Zalmi in the ninth edition of the PSL, leading the run-scoring charts with 498 runs in nine innings at an impressive average of 62.25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Babar Azam has expressed his dissatisfaction with the decision to shift to the one-down position in Pakistan&#8217;s T20I team, a move he made during the recent series against New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Babar has excelled as an opener for Peshawar Zalmi in the ninth edition of the PSL, leading the run-scoring charts with 498 runs in nine innings at an impressive average of 62.25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following Peshawar Zalmi&#8217;s two-run victory against Karachi Kings, Babar was questioned about the significance of his runs as an opener after being demoted to one down spot in Pakistan team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t under any pressure to score runs as an opener [for Zalmi]. I don\u2019t take pressure of anything. It was Pakistan team\u2019s demand at the time. I did that for Pakistan. If I was asked individually, I wasn\u2019t satisfied with the decision to bat at one down position. However, I did that for Pakistan,&#8221; Babar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision to split the successful opening partnership of Babar and Rizwan during the New Zealand series was made to accommodate Saim Ayub as an opener in the Pakistan team.<br>Despite his demotion, Babar scored three consecutive fifties in the first three matches of the series, although Pakistan ultimately lost the series 4-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the aforementioned series, Mohammad Rizwan had also said that the management\u2019s decision to split his opening pair with Babar in T20Is was not a fruitful one and had hurt the side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore : Babar has excelled as an opener for Peshawar Zalmi in the ninth edition of the PSL, leading the run-scoring charts with 498 runs in nine innings at an&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9231,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions\/9231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}