{"id":304983,"date":"2023-01-02T09:38:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T04:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=304983"},"modified":"2023-01-02T09:38:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T04:38:27","slug":"akash-chopra-picks-top-five-2022-batters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/akash-chopra-picks-top-five-2022-batters\/","title":{"rendered":"Akash Chopra picks top five 2022 batters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ISLAMABAD<br \/>\nFormer India batter and sports journalist Akash Chopra has picked his top-5 batters of 2022 and included Pakistan superstar Muhammad Rizwan into them.<br \/>\n\u201cNobody would have imagined that Virat Kohli would find a place on this list. He struggled for form for years altogether, and his performances were quite underwhelming in the IPL too. Everything was going wrong for him,\u201d said Chopra on his YouTube channel.<br \/>\n\u201cHowever, by the end of 2022, he has turned things around in remarkable fashion. In T20Is this year (2022), Kohli has scored 781 runs in 20 matches at an average of 55.78 with a strike rate of 138.23. He was outstanding during the T20 World Cup. The pitches were quite challenging against Pakistan and England during the World Cup, but he still managed to score,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nThe former India batter further stated that he will not be including Pakistan skipper Babar Azam on the list because of his poor average and strike rate.<br \/>\n\u201cGoing by the stats, Babar Azam should be the No.5 but I am not including him in my list. He has scored 735 runs in 26 matches and his average is only 32 and strike rate merely 123. Sorry! but I can\u2019t take him in my team.<br \/>\nI am including Devon Conway\u2019s name instead at his place. Conway\u2019s numbers in T20Is in 2022 are unbelievable, had he played more matches in the format this year, he would have overtaken SKY(Suryakumar Yadav) to claim the top position,\u201d said Chopra.<br \/>\nLooking at the current stats and his own analysis, the top-5 batters picked by Chopra were Suryakumar Yadav (India), Mohammad Rizwan (Pakistan), Virat Kohli (India), Sikandar Raza (Zimbabwe), and Devon Conway (New Zealand).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Former India batter and sports journalist Akash Chopra has picked his top-5 batters of 2022 and included Pakistan superstar Muhammad Rizwan into them. \u201cNobody would have imagined that Virat Kohli would find a place on this list. He struggled for form for years altogether, and his performances were quite underwhelming in the IPL too. 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