{"id":8882,"date":"2024-03-12T07:20:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T07:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=8882"},"modified":"2024-03-12T07:20:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T07:20:42","slug":"babar-expresses-dissatisfaction-with-move-to-one-down-in-t20is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=8882","title":{"rendered":"Babar expresses dissatisfaction with move to one down in T20Is"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Aug-24-2023-13.12.30_baber-1024x576-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Aug-24-2023-13.12.30_baber-1024x576-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Aug-24-2023-13.12.30_baber-1024x576-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Aug-24-2023-13.12.30_baber-1024x576-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<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 impressive average of 62.25Babar 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.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.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.&#8221;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.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.Despite his demotion, Babar scored three consecutive fifties in the first three matches of the series, although Pakistan ultimately lost the series 4-1.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":8,"featured_media":8883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[89,88,92,91,90],"class_list":["post-8882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cricket-world","tag-pakistan-cricket-board-pcb","tag-psl-cricket-series","tag-psl-9","tag-t20i-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8884,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882\/revisions\/8884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}