Pakistan pace bowler Mohammad Amir has advised the Pakistan cricket team to take their semifinal clash against Australia in T20 World Cup 2021 seriously. However, Pakistan has played brilliant cricket in the marquee event so far as they have successfully beaten teams like India and New Zealand in the Super 12 stage as well.
Meanwhile, Australia finished second in Group 1 after having won four games out of five as well. However, Amir also said that the Pakistan batsmen couldn’t use the powerplay well against Namibia as they were not at their best form.
“The mindset of teams, especially in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, is to post a score around 160 and in order to do that you need to take advantage of the powerplay. If you look at the match against Namibia, despite the fact that they didn’t have any world-class bowlers, Pakistan didn’t utilise the powerplay properly and tried to make up for it at the back end of the innings,” said Mohammad Amir on his official YouTube channel.
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Pakistan’s real test will begin now – Mohammad Amir
However, Mohammad Amir also asked the Pakistan team to play well that Australia bowlers won’t allow them to score 60 runs in the last four overs as well as he wants them to play with an offensive approach in the beginning.
He also claimed that Australia are in sublime form and they will give a tough fight to Pakistan.
“However, Australia won’t let you do that. They won’t concede 60 runs in the last four overs so Pakistan needs to ensure that they play attacking cricket from ball one. If you go in survival mode against top sides at the beginning, they won’t give you margin to make a comeback later in the match. We need to score at least 35-40 runs in the powerplay in order to score 160 plus,” he added.
“Pakistan’s real test will now begin because, in my opinion, the only team which could have given tough time to Pakistan in the group stage was India as we know the conditions in UAE very well. Australia have been playing some good cricket and Pakistan needs to be on top of their game to beat them. Chasing [against West Indies] 160 in 16 overs for the loss of two wickets is no joke, it means that they [Australia] are in good rhythm,” Mohammad Amir concluded.
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