“It’s so hard to get Babar Azam out, no matter what you try as opposition captain,” Aaron Finch says Pakistan skipper can have the bowlers on strings when he is playing well

Babar Azam might not have had a great T20 World Cup with the bat in Australia, but the Australian T20I captain Aaron Finch is a big admirer of Babar and recently while talking in the Australian media, Finch called Babar one of the best players in the world.

Out of the 7 games that Babar Azam played in the recently finished T20 World Cup 2022, he scored just one-half century and his overall strike rate in the tournament was less than 100, but before coming into the World Cup, Babar had great numbers in all formats of the game and despite having a poor World Cup, the Pakistan captain is still at no. 3 in the T20I batting rankings of the ICC.

According to Aaron Finch, the biggest strength of Babar is that he just doesn’t get out easily, no matter what the conditions are and what type of bowling you are using against him as an opposition captain. Finch said that Babar can occupy the crease in the toughest of conditions and since he always plays conventional cricketing shots rather than going airy-fairy, it sometimes seems as if he has got the bowlers “on strings”.

Babar Azam had scored some memorable hundreds against Australia in tests and ODIs at home a few months ago

A few months before the T20 World Cup, Australia had toured Pakistan and had played against them in all 3 formats. Finch was Australia’s captain in ODI and T20I cricket at that point of time. Babar had scored some memorable hundreds against Australia in tests and ODIs while playing in that home series and some of those innings are still talked about quite a lot among Pakistan fans. In one of the ODI games, Babar’s hundred had actually helped Pakistan chase down a target of almost 350 against the Aussies.

Aaron Finch "You feel like you can't get Babar Azam out, no matter what you do he's got an answer. He's great & an unbelievable player, he's just so classy, so classical. He's someone who can dominate the game & it almost feels like he's got you on a string at all times" #Cricket

— Saj Sadiq (@SajSadiqCricket) November 17, 2022

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Finch, who has seen Babar from close quarters as an opposition captain, reckons he becomes a big hurdle for the opposition captain when he gets going because whatever strategy a captain might try against him, it doesn’t work.