{"id":2436,"date":"2025-02-24T08:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T08:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2025-02-24T08:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T08:09:19","slug":"a-look-at-babar-azams-performance-against-spin-in-odi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/02\/24\/a-look-at-babar-azams-performance-against-spin-in-odi\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look at Babar Azam&#8217;s Performance Against Spin in ODI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"123\">Star Pakistani batter Babar Azam is widely regarded as one of the most talented players to have ever represented Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"125\" data-end=\"273\">The former captain has established himself as a key figure in ODI cricket, frequently drawing comparisons with some of the best modern-day batters.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"275\" data-end=\"432\">His consistent performances in the 50-over format earned him a top spot in the ICC ODI rankings for several years, until Shubman Gill recently overtook him.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"434\" data-end=\"550\">However, a closer analysis of Babar&#8217;s performances against spin bowling highlights a noticeable change in his form.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"552\" data-end=\"784\">Before December 2021, Babar maintained an impressive average of 51.72 and a strike rate of 88.49 when facing spin in ODIs. His record against away spin was even more remarkable, with an average of 143.33 and a strike rate of 91.00.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"786\" data-end=\"868\">Since January 2022, however, Babar&#8217;s form against spin has taken a sharp decline.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"870\" data-end=\"1029\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">His overall average has dropped to 21.80, with a strike rate of 67.65. Against spin, his average has plummeted to 65.20, while his strike rate stands at 90.05.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Pakistani batter Babar Azam is widely regarded as one of the most talented players to have ever represented Pakistan. The former captain has established himself as a key figure in ODI cricket, frequently drawing comparisons with some of the best modern-day batters. His consistent performances in the 50-over format earned him a top spot &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[368,371,369,370],"class_list":["post-2436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-babar-azam","tag-icc-odi-rankings","tag-odi","tag-spin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions\/2438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}