Waqar Younis’s confident prediction for this World Cup

Pakistan legend Waqar Younis believes that his former team gets each opportunity of going as far as possible and winning the current year’s ICC T20 World Cup.

The Asian country are as of now rated third in the ICC Men’s T20I Team Rankings and will venture out to Australia later this year, confidently after some good results in the shortest format of the game over the last 12 months. 

Pakistan reached the semi-finals of the 2021 T20 World Cup in UAE and have just lost one 20-over challenge – additionally to Australia – since they tasted rout against Aaron Finch’s side in November last year.

“We stand a really good chance of doing well at this World Cup, The pitches in Australia are generally very good batting pitches and Pakistan do have good batters who can really play well in these conditions.” 

Waqar told ICC Digital in Melbourne recently.

“Babar is definitely going to be the key batter at the top of the order. I think he (Babar) will have the impact that he has always had and then of course Rizwan is playing very well and the bowling attack they have got is one of the best in the world.” 

Waqar further added

The bowling attack that Waqar alludes to is driven by transcending pacer Shaheen Afridi, however it’s his supporting cast with the ball that the Pakistan great feels remains quite underrated.

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Right-armed Haris Rauf has performed well in Australia’s domestic Big Bash League earlier, while spin-duo Shadab Khan and Mohammad Nawaz have additionally been quite impressive recently.

“We have tried about six or seven fast bowlers in the last year or so and they are all going really well,”

Waqar noted.

Waqar has the second most Test and ODI wickets in Pakistan’s rich cricketing history

Along with fellow legendary quick Wasim Akram the only bowler with additional scalps than the 50-year-old in the both formats. The winning pacer additionally played alongside some gifted batters during his distinguished 14-year international career that included Younis Khan, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Mohammad Yousuf and Javed Miandad.

While numerous intellectuals accept Babar to be the equivalent or better than large numbers of those star Pakistan batters, Waqar said any correlations ought to wait until the ongoing captain completes his career.

Look who is back to the top of the @MRFWorldwide ICC Men’s T20I Rankings for batters 👀@babarazam258 👏 pic.twitter.com/eTelo79zxy

— ICC (@ICC) December 22, 2021