Talking to media after the match, Arthur said: "I think he will be in the top five [batsmen] of the world very soon across all formats. I thought I was a bit quick off the gun when I said two years ago that he would be almost as good as Virat Kohli but it has taken him a while to show that class. But if you watched him in the nets couple of years ago, he was a young boy who has developed into a young man, he's got stronger and fitter and his game gets better and better all the time."
"I have never doubted Babar Azam, he keeps on getting better and better and the exciting thing for us is that we haven’t seen the best of Azam yet,” he said. “He has been unbelievable on this tour. There have been question marks around Azam outside the sub-continent but I think he's put those to rest now.”
"They bowled the second 10 overs better than the first 10, they took the pace off but yes, for a neutral these have been two good games but for us they haven’t been that good at all," he said.
"To be brutally honest with ourselves, I thought we batted exceptionally well but we bowled very poorly today. As a unit, apart from Imad Wasim who was obviously outstanding, the rest of the bowling unit was poor,” he said. “That is something we will have to look at; we didn’t execute well; I think there were 64 runs scored off short deliveries although our game plan was full strength wicket to wicket so 64 runs [off short balls] was not good enough from them. The execution in the last over was particularly poor."
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I think he will be in the top five batsmen of the world very soon across all formats. Mickey Arthur
Discussion in 'Cricket Talk' started by Del, Feb 4, 2019.
I think he will be in the top five batsmen of the world very soon across all formats. Mickey Arthur
Discussion in 'Cricket Talk' started by Del, Feb 4, 2019.
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