Given all the fretting in the build-up to the tournament about Pakistan’s over-reliance on Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan, it is a fair feat that they have reached the semi-finals of this T20 World Cup without either really firing.
Babar and Rizwan arrived in Australia by some distance the world’s most consistent opening pair, having scored almost 3,700 T20i runs between them since the start of last year, and with the only concerns not over whether they would deliver, but, given some pedestrian starts, at what cost.
