Pakistan has crashed to an embarrassing defeat against India in their third match of the 2023 World Cup. After a promising start to their campaign with wins against Netherlands and Sri Lanka, Pakistan lost by 7 wickets to India without giving India a fight.
Having being 156 for 3 at one stage Pakistan folded for 191 all out with Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan scoring half centuries. I am afraid Pakistan depends a lot on Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam. There is no reliable batsman other than Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan in the team. The team has got a fragile middle order.
In bowling we lack a quality spinner and our pace bowlers seem to be out of form lacking penetration.
In the end what I would like to say is that with the current form Pakistan team is in it is highly unlikely they will make it to the semi finals of this World Cup.
