Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif heaped praise on current skipper Babar Azam and compared the right-handed batsman to greats Don Bradman and Brian Lara. Speaking in a YouTube video shared by a page dedicated to cricket named Cricket Den, Latif ranked Babar on top of Pakistani greats like Inzamam-ul-Haq, Javed Miandad, Wasim Akram and called him ‘the Bradman and Lara of the present era. ‘ said. Recalling his 2019 tweet where he had written the names of players like Javed Miandad, Wasim Akram, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Waqar Younis, Younis Khan, Saqlain Mushtaq and Mohammad Yousuf, Latif said that Babar is ahead of them all. .
However, he emphasized that it would be unfair to compare the right-handed batsman with the players of the bygone era as the game environment has changed a lot over the years. “We cannot compare because here I am not talking only of Babur. All these people, Virat, Rohit, Williamson, all these cricketers who are playing ODIs, they are batting with 10 fielders,” he said in the video.
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Citing the example of former Pakistan opener Saeed Anwar, the 53-year-old said that he would hardly practice before a game, so it would not be fair to compare him with modern players. However, Latif marked Anwar as the number one batsman produced by Pakistan
The former captain said that earlier there used to be only four fielders inside the circle as against five. So, if Inzamam or Anwar had had a chance to play today, they would ‘eat the bowlers’ if a fielder was short outside the circle.
“He was the great of that era. He (Babur) is the Bradman and Lara of this era. That’s it,” Latif said.
Playing for Pakistan in 40 Tests since his debut in 2016, Babar has amassed a total of 2851 runs with an average of 45.98 and a highest score of 196.
In ODIs, the Pakistani captain scored 4261 runs in 84 innings in 86 matches.
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