{"id":813294,"date":"2026-10-25T09:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T09:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813294\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T09:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T09:38:14","slug":"when-will-you-score-runs-babar-azams-weaknesses-exposed-by-ex-pakistan-player-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813294\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;When will you score runs?&#8217; Babar Azam&#8217;s weaknesses exposed by ex-Pakistan player | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/babar-azam-2510-afp.jpg\" alt=\"'When will you score runs?' Babar Azam's weaknesses exposed by ex-Pakistan player\" title=\"Babar Azam (AFP Photo)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/player-profile\/babar-azam\/59429\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Babar Azam<\/a>\u2019s struggle to turn good starts into big scores has raised questions about his form during the ODI tri-series. The Pakistan batter scored 45 against Sri Lanka in the opening match before making 34 against England at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on October 20.While Babar got starts in both matches, he failed to convert them into a big innings. His dismissal against England brought former Pakistan player Tanveer Ahmed\u2019s criticism, with the ex-cricketer pointing out three areas where Babar has been struggling.<\/p>\n<p>Tanveer Ahmed asks Babar to improve<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed believes Babar is facing problems against spinners, deliveries that come into him from fast bowlers, and short balls.\u201cBabar Azam has gotten stuck. He is getting stuck against spinners, he is getting stuck against incoming deliveries from fast bowlers, and now bouncers have started against him,&#8221; he said.Ahmed also questioned why a batter of Babar\u2019s quality was allowing opponents to target so many weaknesses in his game.\u201cLook, man, you are such a top player; if you start exposing weaknesses across these three different areas, then when will you score runs?\u201d he added.He said Babar needed to work on his batting and find ways to deal with these challenges.\u201cYou\u2019ve got to improve. If you, as a batsman, show three different weaknesses\u2014like, \u2018Man, yes, I\u2019m weak against spin, I have a problem against incoming balls from fast bowlers, and I have a problem with bouncers as well\u2019\u2014then you simply can\u2019t score runs. Babar Azam has started getting trapped across three different things&#8230;\u201d.Babar\u2019s footwork against spin has come under scrutiny. He has sometimes moved forward too early, making it difficult to adjust when a delivery turns or goes straight on.That can leave him vulnerable to different types of spin bowling. England\u2019s Will Jacks dismissed him in the second ODI of the tri-series, bringing the problem into focus once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Babar Azam\u2019s struggle to turn good starts into big scores has raised questions about his form during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[29233,266879,266877,266878,1721,20453,21236,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-813294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-babar-azam","tag-babar-azam-batting-issues","tag-babar-azam-odi-performance","tag-babar-azam-weaknesses","tag-cricket","tag-pakistan-cricket","tag-pakistan-cricket-team","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}