Haris Rauf, pacer for the Melbourne Stars and Pakistan cricket crew, entered the crease unprotected on Saturday, December 23, within the Big Bash League (BBL) 2023 match towards Sydney Thunder on the Lavington Sports Oval in Albury. The incident occurred following the Melbourne Stars’ ninth wicket to fall on the final ball of the primary innings. Melbourne was diminished to 172/9 when Mark Steketee was run out on the fifth ball of the twentieth over.
Fans on social media had been taken an element after the Pakistan cricketer walked in with out safety. While many followers thought it was due to laziness, others opined that it was because of the ‘time-out’ dismissal scare that Rauf rushed all the way down to the cricket subject. (IPL 2024: Memes Pour In After Reports Of Hardik Pandya Missing IPL 2024 Due To Injury Go Viral)
Watch the video right here:
No gloves, pads or helmet on
Haris Rauf was caught without warning on the finish of the Stars innings@KFCAustralia #BucketMoment #BBL13 pic.twitter.com/ZR9DeP8YhW
KFC Big Bash League (@BBL) December 23, 2023
Haris went to pad after the autumn of eighth wicket and ninth fell down too whereas he was pading then his teammates stated come quickly…so he ran to the crease with out pads and gloves in palms…. Coz Time out is actual bro #BigBash #HarisRauf pic.twitter.com/U4ONCoclne
Au Rangzab Younis (@SardarAurangzab) December 23, 2023
Coming to Pakistan cricket, Former Pakistan tempo nice Waqar Younis expressed his concern over the declining tempo of Pakistan quick bowlers throughout the first Test towards Australia at Perth. (WATCH: Suryakumar Yadav Walks With Supporter Due To Ankle Injury Ahead Of T20 World Cup 2024)
Pakistan misplaced the primary Test by 360 runs and is getting ready to struggle again into the sequence within the second Test, a Boxing Day Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) from Tuesday onwards. In the Perth Test, the Pakistan tempo assault consisting of Shaheen Shah Afridi, Khurram Shehzad, Aamer Jamal and Faheem Ashraf had some spectacular moments wherein they made Australia batters uneasy with their bowling, made them toil arduous for runs. But regardless of that, none of those bowlers constantly touched the speeds of 140 kmph or above, a trademark of Pakistan tempo bowling and infact, all of modern-day real quick bowling.
This lack of velocity has grabbed the eye of the Pakistani nice and dissatisfied him to an extent that he termed the bowling within the first Test as “medium pace”.
“Another thing that I am worried about is that always when we come to Australia, one thing that excites is the fast bowling and this time around I am not seeing that,” he stated on ESPN’s Around The Wicket present.
“I am seeing medium-pacers or slow-medium-pacers, allrounders, there is no real pace. People used to come and watch Pakistan pace bowlers really running in hard and bowling 150 clicks [kph], and that is what I am not seeing there.”
“That is my worry and issue because I have not seen it at the domestic level also. There are a few injured, I can understand, but in the past, you would always see a battery of fast bowlers that they could always bring on, but unfortunately, that is not there and I am really worried about that,” concluded Waqar.
Speedster Naseem Shah, who missed out on the recently-concluded ICC Cricket World Cup in India is a big loss for the crew they usually have suffered with out his presence. Also, Haris Rauf, a pillar of Pakistan white-ball tempo bowling, opted to signify Melbourne Stars within the Big Bash League (BBL) as a substitute of taking part in in whites on account of workload points. In this example, loads of accountability rests on the shoulders of Shaheen in the event that they wish to problem Aussies of their residence territory.
Waqar expressed considerations over Shaheen’s lack of tempo and stated that if he’s dealing with some points, he must take a while off and repair them as a substitute of declining to a medium pacer.
“I am not really sure what is wrong with him,” he stated. “If he is not fit, if he has got some issues, he needs to go away from the game and fix that because if you are going to carry on like that you are going to become a medium-pacer. He used to bowl 145-150kph and used to swing that ball. What I am seeing now, yes there’s a little bit of swing but his pace is way down… and that is not going to get him wickets.”
“Watching the first Test match was painful. We had moments, we had opportunities where we could have pulled the game back a bit but we did not take the opportunities. When Pakistan come to Australia they have to make sure their fielding is spotless… because Australia batsmen, if you give them opportunities, they will take it with both hands and make it big and that’s what we saw in Perth,” concluded Waqar. (With ANI inputs)
