Pakistan cricket_ Iftikhar Ahmed’s next role in PAK team _ ICC Champions Trophy 2025
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00:00According to ICC Champions Trophy 2025, which begins on September 12, 2024, has a different significance.
00:11Many Pakistani players who have been representing Pakistan for years, their careers will be decided in the next few days.
00:22Iftikhar Ahmed, who is now considering himself as a talenter, can play a big role for him and can also be dismissed from the Pakistan team.
00:34If we talk about the activities of Iftikhar Ahmed, then he has not been able to meet the expectations in T20 format.
00:43But if we talk about the one-day format, then he can play a big role.
00:52There are a lot of things to keep in front of you.
00:56Our misfortune is that the team is losing, and there are people sitting on social media or TV who comment without knowing the truth and play a key role in forming a negative opinion.
01:17In the past, you can see all the big stars of Pakistan, Imran Khan, Ghaseem Akram, Mian Dada, Dhanush Zaman, or the big players of the world, Brian Lara, Viv Richard, Sachin Tendulkar,
01:28bad pages have been coming on all of them.
01:32They have also had a hard time in some part of their career.
01:37But there was no social media there, there was no traditional media like ours, which led the player to move forward.
01:45Social media is more active than us today, but the level of people's thinking is not like ours.
01:53Now, instead of making a long statement here, I come to the activities of Iftikhar Ahmed.
02:00Here we are only talking about the one-day format, we are not talking about the T20 format.
02:06If we talk about the career of Iftikhar Ahmed, then his career has been going up and down a lot, he has been getting very few chances, he has been in and out.
02:17But since May 2023, he has been getting continuous opportunities in Pakistan.
02:26And in this format, he has taken more than 9 innings on 6th number and 6 innings on 7th or 8th number.
02:37So in this format, all the batsmen in the world who have batted on 6th or such low numbers,
02:43among them, Iftikhar Ahmed is on 4th place in terms of runs.
02:47Mashfiqu Rahim, who played 20 matches, David Miller played 17 matches and De Silva played 24 matches.
02:55Iftikhar Ahmed played 16 matches, 13 innings and 452 runs.
03:00The average was 45 and his strike rate was 118.32.
03:05In this format, from May 2023 to now, the batsmen who have made at least 100 runs on 6th or such low numbers in one-day international matches,
03:17in terms of strike rate, only and only Glenn Maxwell is the only player who is ahead of Iftikhar Ahmed.
03:26His strike rate is 157, while Iftikhar Ahmed's strike rate is 118.
03:33And the average is also 45, the overall average has also been very good.
03:37So this is his overall performance recently, which has been played in one-day format for Pakistan.
03:44Apart from this, there has been a lot of injustice with Iftikhar Ahmed, who we call a long career.
03:52He made his debut in 2015, played only two one-day matches, then was dropped.
03:57He made his debut with one innings, which he played on 4th number, otherwise he played on 5th or such low numbers.
04:03He made his comeback in 2019, played two innings, both were not out.
04:08He played against Sri Lanka in 2019, which was played under the leadership of Sir Faraz Ahmed.
04:13He made his comeback after a year, i.e. in October 2020, this time he got three matches.
04:31Once he was not out, and these three matches were against Zimbabwe at Rawalpindi.
04:36Then he made his comeback in 2022, here he got a chance to play only two innings.
04:42Once he was not out, and these three matches were against Zimbabwe at Rawalpindi.
04:47But in May 2023, he got 72 opportunities.
04:51When he made his comeback, he made 28 runs in the first match, in the second match he made 94 not out on 72 balls.
04:58Then after two matches, he made his first one-day international century against Nepal.
05:03He made his first one-day international century with 109 runs not out.
05:06After that, he made 47 runs against Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup match.
05:11But his later performance in the World Cup 2020 was not very good.
05:15He made 40 runs against Afghanistan, 21 runs against South Africa, and 26 runs against the Estalvi team.
05:22So the overall performance was not very good.
05:26Despite this, his overall performance has been good till May 2023.
05:32Now we have to see what kind of performance he gives in the Champions Cup.
05:36Because he thinks that he plays as a tail ender batsman.
05:40He gets a chance to bat on the lower members.
05:43In a way, this is his complaint.
05:45But he will have to give performance.
05:48Glenn Maxwell also comes down and bats.
05:50If he finishes the match and improves himself, then his batting order can automatically go up.
05:56But the condition for him is that first, Iftikhar Ahmed should give performance.
06:01If he has played a few good innings since May 2023, then he will have to prove himself in the Champions Cup.
06:09Only then can he get a chance in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025.
06:15And if you look at the performance of all Pakistan's batsmen in the one-day format from May 2023 to now,
06:24then Iftikhar Ahmed is only the third top scorer after Mohammad Rizwan and Babur Azam, who have scored 490 runs.
06:33In this period, Babur Azam scored 448, Mohammad Rizwan scored 713,
06:38Iftikhar Ahmed scored 490, Imam Ul Haq scored 419, Fakhar Zaman scored 391 runs.
06:45If you look at the average here, then Iftikhar Ahmed's average is better than Babur Azam.
06:52And after Mohammad Rizwan, it is the best average of any Pakistani batter.
06:58And in the ICC, the Pakistanis who have scored at least 100 runs,
07:03there is only one batsman whose strike rate is more than 100, i.e. more than Gaindu, and that is Iftikhar Ahmed.
07:13That is, Iftikhar Ahmed's strike rate from Fakhar Zaman to Babur Azam to Mohammad Rizwan has been better in the one-day format.
07:22And in the ICC, Iftikhar Ahmed has scored 16 runs in total, which is only after Fakhar Zaman, who has scored 18 runs,
07:32there are more than two runs of any Pakistani batter.
07:36So overall, Iftikhar Ahmed has given a good performance.
07:41His performance has not been much better in the World Cup 2023.
07:45But if you look at it from 2023 to now, especially since his comeback in May 2023,
07:52he has been successful in playing a prominent role for Pakistan.
07:57Now it is up to Pakistan's selectors, Pakistan's team management,
08:02or I don't know if Babur Azam is the captain or Mohammad Rizwan comes,
08:07the decision is made about Iftikhar Ahmed.
08:10Because Iftikhar Ahmed is playing in the Champions Cup in Mohammad Rizwan's team.
08:14If he succeeds in giving an outclass performance here,
08:18then surely Iftikhar Ahmed can play a big role in the Champions Trophy 2025.