{"id":10494,"date":"2022-09-06T13:40:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T13:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=10494"},"modified":"2022-09-06T13:40:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T13:40:27","slug":"asia-cup-2022-true-warrior-babar-lavishes-praise-on-rizwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/asia-cup-2022-true-warrior-babar-lavishes-praise-on-rizwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Cup 2022: ‘True warrior,’ Babar lavishes praise on Rizwan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asia Cup 2022: ‘True warrior,’ Babar lavishes praise on Rizwan. Pakistan\u2019s all-format skipper Babar Azam<\/a> Tuesday called his opening partner Mohammad Rizwan a \u201ctrue warrior\u201d, praising him for remaining committed to his team despite all the pain.<\/p>\n

The wicketkeeper-batter was suffering from knee pain while he was batting against India in a high-pressure game on Sunday in T20 Asia Cup 2022. Despite the knee pain, Rizwan scored an unbeaten 71 runs to help Pakistan win by five wickets against their arch-rivals.<\/p>\n

Addressing a press conference ahead of their clash against Afghanistan tomorrow, he praised his opening partner, saying that he has \u201cnever seen a cricketer with such an attitude.\u201d<\/p>\n

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“To me, he is a true warrior who always stands for Pakistan. If you talk about his commitment, so everybody knows how he came straight from ICU to play the semi-final against Australia in T20 World Cup last year. A player with such a character is always important for you,” he added.<\/p>\n

\u2018Not an easy task\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Commenting on the nail-biting victory against India, Babar said that success against India gave them immense confidence while moving ahead in the T20 Asia Cup 2022.<\/p>\n

“Victory against India gave us so much confidence. Every player gave his best performance against India. As a unit, we are confident to continue this performance and play competitive cricket against other opponents,” the skipper said.<\/p>\n

Babar, however, feels that winning Asia Cup is \u201cnot an easy task\u201d.<\/p>\n

“Winning Asia Cup is not easy. It’s not like we will say, we will win. It requires a lot of hard work and focus,” said the skipper who has so far failed to make his presence felt in the tournament.<\/p>\n

“I know my performance wasn’t up to the mark but the way Rizwan carried out there after I got out was commendable. I am learning from my mistakes and will come back Inshallah,” concluded Babar who scored 10, 9 and 14 in the three matches so far held during the tournament.<\/p>\n

After the convincing victory against India, Pakistan are now set to face Afghanistan in their second Super Four stage contest in Sharjah tomorrow [September 7].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Asia Cup 2022: ‘True warrior,’ Babar lavishes praise on Rizwan. Pakistan\u2019s all-format skipper Babar Azam Tuesday called his opening partner Mohammad Rizwan a \u201ctrue warrior\u201d, praising him for remaining committed to his team despite all the pain. The wicketkeeper-batter was suffering from knee pain while he was batting against India in a high-pressure game on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6581,694,1252,172,138],"class_list":["post-10494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-asia-cup-2022","tag-babar-azam","tag-mohammad-rizwan","tag-australia","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}