Grant Flower: “I think he’s close to being at the top of his game”

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Pakistan batting coach Grant Flower believes that batsman Babar Azam is “close to being at the top of his game” and “is going to be one of the best players in the world”.

Azam has been one of Pakistan’s most consistent batsmen this year as he scored 195 runs, which included a lone fifty, in the ODI series against South Africa at an average of 48.75.

In the five-match ODI series against England, he accumulated 277 runs in five games, which included a century and two fifties, at an average of 55.40.

He followed that up with a superb 112 in Pakistan’s World Cup warm-up against Afghanistan.

As for Pakistan’s first two World Cup games against the West Indies and England, he scored 22 and 63 respectively.

“Yeah, I think he’s come a long way. I think his game is improving all the time, and so is his strike rate. And I think he’s going to develop even more,” Flower was quoted as saying by PakPassion.

“But I think he’s close to being at the top of his game and, you know, he is really exciting to watch and, obviously, it is up to the other guys to bat around him at times.

“They all got different roles. But I think Babar is really exciting and he is going to be one of the best players in the world.”

Pakistan’s next World Cup match will be against Sri Lanka in Bristol on Friday.

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