When Pakistan faced defeat in the T20 World Cup 2022 against India, a video of Babar Azam surfaced in which he was seen encouraging the players in the dressing room. During this, he described Mohammad Nawaz as his match winner player. Actually, Nawaz could not defend 16 runs in the last over against India. During this, he also bowled a wide ball with a no ball. Against Zimbabwe on Thursday, he had a chance to wash off all his past sins. But this time also he became the villain of the team by becoming a hero.
Mohammad Nawaz came to bat when Pakistan lost their 5th wicket for 88 runs. At that time the team needed 43 runs from 37 balls. Nawaz slowly started advancing Pakistan’s innings and along with fellow batsmen started taking the team closer to the target. They needed 11 runs in the last over. Nawaz took three runs off the first ball and gave the strike to Mohammad Wasim Jr. Nawaz’s decision being considered wrong because Wasim is not a complete batsman. But Wasim proved everyone wrong by hitting a four on the second ball. After this, he gave the strike back to Nawaz by taking a run on the third ball.
After 8 runs in the first three balls, the whole pressure was on Zimbabwe
After 8 runs in the first three balls, the whole pressure was on Zimbabwe. But here Mohammad Nawaz made a big mistake in the affair of ending the match early. After dotting the fourth ball of the over, Nawaz tried to hit a four over mid-off on the fifth ball but he could not time the ball. Erwin, posted there, caught this catch running back and showed Nawaz the way to the pavilion on a personal score of 22. Nawaz was out here but this ball also got dot. Due to Nawaz’s mistake, the entire pressure shifted from Zimbabwe to Pakistan.
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The whole world knows what happened on the last ball, a full length ball from Brad Evans. Shaheen Afridi played a shot in the direction of long on and ran for two runs. Had Pakistan completed two runs there, the match could have gone to the Super Over and it was expected that from there Pakistan could have won the match. But the Zimbabwe fielders standing tight on the field on the last ball did not give him this opportunity. The fielder threw a straight throw towards wicketkeeper Chakabwa. The ball definitely spilled from Chakabwa’s hand. But in the end he gave the team victory by running out Shaheen.
This match winner player of Babar Azam once again became a villain by playing a bad shot
Had Nawaz‘s wicket not fallen, perhaps the result would have been in Pakistan’s favor, but Babar Azam’s match-winner once again became a villain by playing a bad shot.
