What more could Sahibzada Farhan have done?
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Home Pakistan crashed out to the T20 World Cup despite Ferhan’s record performance Cricket is a team game. No single player can win a World Cup on his own. Everyone has to play their role. An individual may pile up runs, but if teammates fail to contribute, the result is what happened with Pakistan. In the T20 World Cup, Sahibzada Farhan scored the most runs (383). He also made the most centuries (two) and ranked second among the batters with the most sixes (18). Yet the team couldn’t even reach the semi-finals. Poor Sahibzada Farhan is not to blame. He did everything he possibly could, but he is not Superman who can achieve the impossible alone. Interestingly and embarrassingly Saim Ayub, Salman Ali Agha, Babar Azam, and Usman Khan together scored only 281 runs in the entire event 102 fewer than Sahibzada alone. Saim, from whom we expected heaps of runs, managed just 70 in six matches. Salman, playing at number three, scored only 60 runs in seven matches. Babar Azam, from whom centuries were expected, failed to even reach a combined 100 runs in six matches, finishing with 91. Usman Khan, from whom sixes were anticipated, scored just 60 in seven matches.
Published: March 2, 2026 12:03 pm
Source: The Express Tribune — Read original