Pakistan's Babar Azam has endured thing of a nightmare World Cup, posting scores of 0, 4, 4, 6 and 25 successful his 5 innings to date.
That's 39 runs astatine a onslaught complaint of 61.90, horrific figures for a subordinate ranked arsenic the 4th champion T20 batter successful the world.
Pakistan's batting coach, Matthew Hayden, sees similarities with 1 of his erstwhile opening partners.
"Babar and Mohammad Rizwan rightly are our No.1 operation opening," Hayden said.
"If you tin instrumentality your caput backmost to the 2007 World Cup, erstwhile Adam Gilchrist had rather a thin World Cup by his standards.
"And if you retrieve that past lucifer against Sri Lanka, helium went connected to people an unthinkable 100 and realised his imaginable successful that tournament."
Hayden pointed retired it was intolerable for Babar to support the ridiculous standards helium acceptable from 2018-2020, wherever helium averaged 52.73 astatine a onslaught complaint of 133.
"You can't proceed to support punching retired hundreds and fifties and strike-rates of 140-plus," helium said.
"There has to beryllium moments successful clip erstwhile determination is simply a lull. And erstwhile determination is simply a lull determination is often a tempest that follows.
"So look retired the remainder of the satellite due to the fact that I deliberation you are astir to spot thing precise peculiar from Babar."