{"id":285346,"date":"2022-09-24T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T04:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=285346"},"modified":"2022-09-24T09:10:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T04:10:09","slug":"nasser-hussain-backs-babar-rizwan-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/nasser-hussain-backs-babar-rizwan-duo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasser Hussain backs Babar-Rizwan duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> LONDON<br \/>\nEngland\u2019s former captain and cricket commentator Nasser Hussain on Thursday defended Babar Azam and Muhammad Rizwan\u2019s batting duo, saying that those who criticized them, didn\u2019t watch cricket during past couple of years.<br \/>\n\u201cIf you think Babar and Rizwan have been the problem, you really haven\u2019t been watching the [cricket during] last couple of years,\u201d Nasser tweeted Thursday, as the duo rattled English bowling lineup to chase down a massive 200 runs\u2019 total here at National Stadium Karachi.<br \/>\nPakistan earlier on Thursday had defeated England in second Twenty20 International match of the seven match series.<br \/>\nThe Green Shirts chased down a heavenly target of 200 runs as Babar, Rizwan shined with the bat. Babar Azam smashed a century ton by scoring 110 unbeaten of just 66 balls, while Muhammad Rizwan scored blistering 88 of 51.<br \/>\nBabar Azam and Muhammad Rizwan have been put under the pump by cricket fraternity for their \u2018low scoring rate\u2019 in early powerplay overs. However, the duo is proving its critics wrong by masterful performances, as it gave against England here Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON England\u2019s former captain and cricket commentator Nasser Hussain on Thursday defended Babar Azam and Muhammad Rizwan\u2019s batting duo, saying that those who criticized them, didn\u2019t watch cricket during past couple of years. \u201cIf you think Babar and Rizwan have been the problem, you really haven\u2019t been watching the [cricket during] last couple of years,\u201d [&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-285346","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 - 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