Inzamam-ul-Haq: “We weren’t able to see his batting though. In order to see the best version of Rizwan as a batsman, they’d have to send him to bat up the order. If you don’t play him in top order then he’d be completely useless”
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Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq has slammed the national team for making Mohammad Rizwan bat so low during the T20 series against England.
Rizwan featured in two games of the three-match series, but didn’t bat in any of them.
However, he took one catch and had a stumping as well.
But, Inzamam feels it was a complete waste to have Rizwan, who was in excellent form during the Test series, batting so far down the order in the T20 series.
In the three-Test series, the 28-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman scored 161 runs, which included two half-centuries, at an average of 40.25.
“I am happy that they [rewarded] Rizwan for his Test match form. Picking Rizwan was still a difficult choice to make [even though] his wicketkeeping was already brilliant,” Inzamam said in a YouTube video as quoted by Cricket Pakistan.
“We weren’t able to see his batting though. In order to see the best version of Rizwan as a batsman, they’d have to send him to bat up the order. If you don’t play him in top order then he’d be completely useless. Lower down the order, Sarfaraz Ahmed is more effective than Rizwan.”
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