Pakistan captain Babar Azam feels like he’s playing a Cricket World Cup at home. But the world’s top-ranked ODI batter is searching for the right balance with his starting lineup for Pakistan's opening game against Netherlands on Friday. Pakistan had losses in two warmup games against New Zealand and Australia but Babar was in good form and Mohammad Rizwan, Saud Shakeel and Iftikhar Ahmed were also among the runs as the team went close to 350-run marks in both games.
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The tall legspinner Usama Mir was the most impressive of the three spinners -- better than Shadab and left-arm spinner Mohammad Nawaz at times -- in the warmups. The form of Usama could give Babar some selection headaches.after sensationally beating the two-time champion West Indies in a Super Over in the qualifying tournament at Zimbabwe in July and then, Max O’Dowd, Roelof van der Merwe and captain Scott Edwards all contributed in lifting their team to the main event.
The brilliant all-round heroics of van Beek ended the West Indies’ hopes in qualifying and the Dutch have plenty of firepower in the powerplay with O’Dowd and Vikramjit Singh scoring at a brisk pace against fast bowlers. De Leede, whose father Tim, also played at the World Cup, also performed against the fast bowlers.
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