Hasan Nawaz

And he opens it on the 1-drop.

Hassan Nawaz has made a comeback.

He played well there.

He missed 100 in the Asian Games final.

And he won only while playing for Sahibzada Farhan.

Because victory fell from the other side.

Saheem Ayub, the keeper, Khwaja Nafe, Shadab Khan, all of them didn't make much of a run in the middle order after Hassan Nawaz.

But because one guy was playing, there was no problem in winning.

You made him number 3.

Hassan Nawaz, you are continuing on number 4.

On number 5, who played Saim Ayub on number 3 in the previous game, he is already struggling.

In all across the format, you are bringing him to number 5.

We've dropped Shaheen, Haris, Mahbar, we're not considering any of them in T20s anymore in the pretext of preserving the ODI core for the World Cup.

But we contradict ourselves that whereas we are preserving them as an ODI core, but here also ODI core is playing.

Now Shadab Khan, Fakhar Zaman, Saim Ayub, Hassan Nawaz are also considered as ODI core.

But those four ODI core are playing here, they are not playing.

I like the fight.

Uh, you and I have been a huge proponent of Hasan Nawaz being in this team.

We saw him in Florida last year, and he just looked great.

I think he was player of the series in the ODI series or, like, had a man of the match in one of the ODIs.

There's a lot of conversation about him being dropped.

I, I don't think that's the case.

I don't think you can drop a player like Hasan Nawaz.

Um, but now that he's back, he looks great.

Just, uh, Sri and, and Kunal, are you getting worried yet? What is it? 60 off 22.

Hasan Nawaz of Pakistan, 77 off 39 deliveries.

Ooh.

So, uh, how are we feeling over there at the moment?

Hasan Nawaz-

How many Bumrah-

Hasan Nawaz gonna get out next over.

[laughs] How many's Bumrah-

And Tilak Varma provided crucial stability, remaining unbeaten with 51 off 22 deliveries.

Pakistan certainly put up a valiant fight in the chase, largely thanks to a spectacular innings by Hassan Nawaz, who scored a brilliant counterattacking 96 off just 51 balls.

But despite his heroic individual effort, Pakistan's batting lineup couldn't sustain the required run rate and can only muster 192 for six as the overs ran out.

That victory was highly significant.

They're looking at Farhan Paz Sadakat, who's had a great CPL, recently scored 200s in the playoffs, one in the semi, one in the final.

Sam Ayub who's had a good CPL as well decent CPL Hassan Nawaz has shown to play well as well in in the CPL he had a good performance there Usman Khan has been doing well for Pakistan off late he also did decently well in the CPL a lot of these players are coming with form Abdul Samad I've seen him in the past he can hit the long ball so they have a pretty strong batting lineup the Their bowling, I think, can hold its own.

Sufian Mukim has improved quite a bit.

Again, played well in the CPL, was one of the top wicket-takers.

So Rakim Cornwall made a six ball 20, right? Which is perfect in such a chase.

And that set it up in such a way that Amir Jungu and Hassan Nawaz simply came and killed the game off.

So they won it like at a canter and they finished in 70th over to chase down 173.

So it was a thorough performance.

I don't know why we keep doing that, but that's what that is.

Abrar Ahmed, Ahmed Daniyal, Aaqib Javed, Ali Raza, Arafat Minhas, Haider Ali, Hassan Nawaz, Maaz Sadaqat, Muhammad Wasim Jr., Saad Masood, Saim Ayub, Sufiyaan Mukim, and Usman Khan.

Solid.

You know, Usman Khan has grown on me in the past few months.