The power that Pakistan prides itself on, will sink its spoils in the Asia Cup

New Delhi. Who will win the Asia Cup this time? This cannot be said now. Because each team is claiming their own victory. Pakistan team is also not behind in this. Babar Azam and many players in the team have openly said that our bowling is the strongest. We have good spinners along with mischievous bowlers and batsmen like Babar, Mohammad Rizwan and Imam-ul-Haq. What Pakistan considers to be its team’s strength, is its biggest weakness. Pakistan has not been able to find any solution to this weakness in the last 4 years. The same weakness could sink Pakistan’s booty in the Asia Cup as well. Let’s find out what is Pakistan’s strength, which is also its weakness.

Despite Pakistan winning the first two matches of the 3 ODI series against Afghanistan, they have taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series. But, in the second match, his bowling was exposed. It was Afghanistan’s openers who chased bowlers like Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf and Shadab Khan for wickets. Pakistan got their first wicket in the 40th over. Till then Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran had added 227 runs for the first wicket. Both these batsmen hit 20 fours and 5 sixes before getting out.

Afghanistan’s batsmen saved Pakistan’s sixes
Pakistan’s spin bowlers Shadab Khan and Usama Mir also had a bad time in this match. Together, they gave 114 runs in 20 overs and managed to get only 1 wicket. From this one can assume that Pakistan will be proud of its bowling but in reality it is not. Especially their spin bowling is weaker than many weaker teams.

Pakistan’s worst spinner
After the 2019 World Cup, Pakistan ranks last among 10 countries if we compare the spin attack of different teams in ODIs. The spin attack of teams like Bangladesh, Afghanistan is better than Pakistan. Bangladesh’s spin attack is the best in ODIs in the last 4 years. Bangladesh’s spin bowlers have taken the most wickets since the last World Cup with 146 wickets in 45 matches at an average of 27.3 and an economy rate of 4.60. Afghanistan is second in this list. Afghanistan’s spin bowlers have taken a total of 94 wickets in 625.1 overs in the last 4 years in 24 matches at an average of 29.46 and an economy rate of 4.43.

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Bangladesh-Afghanistan is also ahead of Pakistan
Pakistan’s spinners have been the worst since the last World Cup. Since the 2019 World Cup, Pakistan’s spinners have bowled 518.5 overs and taken 69 wickets in 29 matches. The economy is the highest at 5.42 and the team is 10th in the list. Pakistan’s spin bowlers average above 40. While the average of the first placed Bangladesh is 27.3. This is inferring that Pakistan’s bowling is hollow and that Babar Azam should make a million claims about his bowling prowess, the reality is quite the opposite. At least the performance of Pakistan’s spin bowlers in the last 4 years is indicating the same.

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