After Rizwan, Babar Azam the new target of public humiliation in BBL, at the hands of Steve Smith

[Gollum]

1 minute ago, Manucrick said:

Even sai ruturaj better t20 player than gill

Bhai, Sai ka naam mat lo. I have watched enough of him for a lifetime. 

Edited January 13 by Gollum

[Lone Wolf]

14 minutes ago, Gollum said:

In T20s, Gill is a carbon copy of Babar/Rizwan. Wanted him to be subbed out more than once in the Aus series last year. 

Bobzy at Gill's age was a tad better to bully weaker attacks... Gill can't even do that.

 

Rizzu Symonds was always a fraud.  Leg lapadu for a reason 

[Ultimate_Game]

7 hours ago, rollingstoned said:

 

 

 

 

Bahut zaleel kiya Aus ne in dono ko 

[Chaos]

Lodus cant hide in aussie land 

[tapandrun]

12 hours ago, Nikhil_cric said:

Embarrassment is for BBL. It's clearly a league of very low quality. 

 

Picking overseas players like these.

Yes its hurting bbl, they over sold the arrival/participation of rizwan+babar+shaheen as something v.huge.

They tried to create hype (on the sm) of everything pak superstar players were doing but on field its fallen flat.

 

But this incidence of calling back a batter is not a big deal these days, think it even happened in intnl match with Roston (wi), this is a tactical move.

 

But over all out put of 3 big pak superstar has been v.mediocre. 

Shaheeen was not doing that well with the bowling he hardly touched 135 kmph in bbl and was going for runs, had a knee injury and he pulled out from the league.

Babar and rizwan are playing with sr of below 105

 

 

[tapandrun]

12 hours ago, Gollum said:

In T20s, Gill is a carbon copy of Babar/Rizwan. Wanted him to be subbed out more than once in the Aus series last year. 

Gill's case is even worse rizwan/babar have played most of their t20i cricket when that kind of cricket was a bit relavent for tht time and they scored heavily .

It took ppl sometime to understand those were soft runs and scored vs b/c level teams. but gill is playing t20 cricket of 4-5 yrs back vs b/c level sides and ppl now know this.

[tapandrun]

12 hours ago, Manucrick said:

Even sai ruturaj better t20 player than gill

not sure of sai, but rutu has much better game, he has more shots vs pace and spin. its just that his approach is too self-preservation

[Gollum]

12 hours ago, Lone Wolf said:

Bobzy at Gill's age was a tad better to bully weaker attacks... Gill can't even do that.

 

Rizzu Symonds was always a fraud.  Leg lapadu for a reason 

Right now, Gill is just a poor man's Babar Azam in white ball. The 100 Bobby made against NZ in 2019 WC virtual KO match, is beyond Gill's aukaat. 

 

In tests our boy is comfortably better. And he should focus on that. 

[nevada]

Why would any BBL team pick the devastating duo unless they enjoy inflicting pain upon themselves? 

[tapandrun]

On 1/13/2026 at 11:08 PM, Gollum said:

Right now, Gill is just a poor man's Babar Azam in white ball. The 100 Bobby made against NZ in 2019 WC virtual KO match, is beyond Gill's aukaat. 

 

In tests our boy is comfortably better. And he should focus on that. 

Lets wait to call that Gill is any good in Test before eng series his test avg was ~35. 

 

Bt yes gill looks bad version of Babar and babar hisself is not top notch.

[Tillu]

Smith refused the last ball single from Babar as the next over is a power surge and then proceeds to hit 32 runs with four sixes. Babar then got out in the following over and hits the boundary ropes with his bat in anger.

 

 

[vvvslaxman]

38 minutes ago, Tillu said:

Smith refused the last ball single from Babar as the next over is a power surge and then proceeds to hit 32 runs with four sixes. Babar then got out in the following over and hits the boundary ropes with his bat in anger.

 

 

social media king. He has no personality, no dominating game. He just statpadded against minnows and C string teams.

[Lone Wolf]

13 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

social media king. He has no personality, no dominating game. He just statpadded against minnows and C string teams.

Ngl the rizwan thing was still fine considering the recent trend of retiring out batters to get in pinch hitters in T20s. But this is next level beizzati. Smith treated him like a tail end batter lmao

[tapandrun]

36 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

Ngl the rizwan thing was still fine considering the recent trend of retiring out batters to get in pinch hitters in T20s. But this is next level beizzati. Smith treated him like a tail end batter lmao

noting wrong again, its okay if batter who is in better form/is batter hitter takes the strike. think it was power surge they call it 2 overs of it out side pp.

the issue should have been how babar reacted to the situation,  smith hit 4 back-2-back 6s and once babar got out it looked like he dint like it , shows he is not team man. 

 

the diff. between aus players and others ::team and winning comes 1st 

 

Edited January 16 by tapandrun

[Gollum]

1 hour ago, Tillu said:

Smith refused the last ball single from Babar as the next over is a power surge and then proceeds to hit 32 runs with four sixes. Babar then got out in the following over and hits the boundary ropes with his bat in anger.

 

 

This deserves a separate thread bro. Another day, another humiliation for Pooks 

[Gollum]

‘Get out of the way’: Steve Smith can’t believe Babar Azam’s fielding; Mark Waugh bursts into laughter

 

 

King Bobsy and Lipstick Maulana are never playing another season of BBL, mark my words. 

[Gollum]

 

Edited January 16 by Gollum

[tapandrun]

8 minutes ago, Gollum said:

 

 

BBL is run by CA, looks like the team and players may not be happy with inclusion on low sr batters or not so much suited players in the team/league.

 

In BBL there can be only 2 os players and think babar/rizwan/shaheen got the top contract that is reseved to top intnl players which even players like maxwell/stonis can not have.

 

Aus cricketing system is diff.. they play to win, think there some Eng talk/podcast where bumble (former eng player/commentator ) was explaining how aus players would come to county and got surprised how much personal mile-stones meant to eng players where else aus players wanted team to win

 

 

[Gollum]

These Aussies are something else man, elite champion's mentality meets useless statpadding mentality. Aussie fans are furious that Babar was interested more in his 50 than team's victory, dil bharke pel rahe hai ghante ko. Snith scoring a 42 ball ton (32 in one over, BBL record) and Babar playing at 100 SR !!!!

 

There are talks of him returning to Pak, leaving BBL midway....he is mentally broken, uske ego ka chaknachoor ho gya bhai.

 

 

 

 

 

[Gollum]

Babar 1(7) today, Aussie fans have had enough