Former Pakistani captain Rashid Latif showered present skipper Babar Azam with reward as he in contrast the right-hander to legendary Don Bradman and Brian Lara. Speaking in a YouTube video shared by a web page devoted to cricket named Cricket Den, Latif ranked Babar over Pakistani greats like Inzamam-ul- Haq, Javed Miandad, Wasim Akram and referred to as him ‘Bradman and Lara of the current era.’ Recalling his 2019 tweet the place he had written names of gamers like Javed Miandad, Wasim Akram, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Waqar Younis, Younis Khan, Saqlain Mushtaq, and Mohammed Yousuf, Latif acknowledged that Babar is forward of all them.
He, nonetheless, emphasised that it will be unfair to check the right-hander to the past-era gamers because the taking part in surroundings has modified drastically through the years. “We can’t evaluate as a result of right here I’m not solely speaking about Babar. All these guys, Virat, Rohit, Williamson all these cricketers who’re taking part in ODIs, they’re batting with 10 fielders,” he mentioned within the video.
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Citing the example of former Pakistani opener Saeed Anwar, the 53-year-old said he would hardly practice before a game so to compare him to modern players would not be fair. Latif, however, labeled Anwar as the number one batter produced by Pakistan
The former skipper stated that earlier there used to be only four fielders inside the circle compared to five now. So, if Inzamam or Anwar got a chance to play today, they would ‘eat bowlers’ if one fielder was less outside the circle.
“They were greats of that era. He (Babar) is the Bradman and Lara of this era. That’s the thing,” Latif added.
Playing for Pakistan in 40 Tests since his debut in 2016, Babar has scored a complete of 2851 runs at a median of 45.98 and the very best rating of 196.
In ODIs, the Pakistani skipper had 4261 runs from 84 innings in 86 matches.
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