{"id":285138,"date":"2022-09-23T09:01:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T04:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=285138"},"modified":"2022-09-23T09:01:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T04:01:32","slug":"nasser-hussain-wants-split-of-babar-rizwan-opening-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/nasser-hussain-wants-split-of-babar-rizwan-opening-duo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasser Hussain wants split of Babar-Rizwan opening duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> LONDON<br \/>\nFormer England captain and cricket commentator Nasser Hussain has suggested splitting the opening pairing of Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam to accommodate Shan Masood.<br \/>\nHaving watched Shan closely during his time in the County Championship with Derbyshire, Nasser Hussain stated that Shan is not a finisher but a top-order batsman.<br \/>\n\u201cShan Masood suddenly comes in at number 4, that makes no sense to me at all him coming into bat with just 5 overs to go. He\u2019s not a finisher, he\u2019s a top-order batter,\u201d he stated.<br \/>\nFollowing the strike rate criticism, both Babar and Rizwan picked up their game and gave Pakistan a solid foundation in the opening game against England.<br \/>\nHowever, the batting collapse towards the middle to death overs once again halted Pakistan from registering a big total on the board.<br \/>\nIt remains to be seen how Pakistan\u2019s management approaches the batting order problems ahead of the T20 World Cup, especially with Babar Azam struggling at the top of the order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON Former England captain and cricket commentator Nasser Hussain has suggested splitting the opening pairing of Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam to accommodate Shan Masood. Having watched Shan closely during his time in the County Championship with Derbyshire, Nasser Hussain stated that Shan is not a finisher but a top-order batsman. \u201cShan Masood suddenly comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-285138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nasser Hussain wants split of Babar-Rizwan opening duo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/nasser-hussain-wants-split-of-babar-rizwan-opening-duo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nasser Hussain wants split of Babar-Rizwan opening duo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LONDON Former England captain and cricket commentator Nasser Hussain has suggested splitting the opening pairing of Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam to accommodate Shan Masood. 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