Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan credited Indian superstar Virat Kohli for emphasizing the significance of team success over individual achievements. Despite scoring over 26,700 runs in international cricket, Kohli’s defining feature has been his ability to win games for India. The 35-year-old has an average of above 66 and has scored 65 percent of his runs in Indian victory across forms.
“Firstly the teams that you are representing keep that [role] in front and if you think of yourself in that case… like players who think like let me save myself, he won’t go far. Those players who look at averages are average players. If someone is performing it will be there in the stats for people to see, like say India’s Virat Kohli, he is getting his average higher but he is not focusing on that because average players looks at average and big players will look at the team and the situation and my focus remains on what is the requirement of the team,” Rizwan said while speaking to Cricbuzz.
Despite playing 74 ODIs and 90 T20Is for Pakistan, Rizwan has primarily batted in the middle order in the 50-over format, opening in the latter.
“The team says Rizwan looks at the board and plays accordingly. I maintain the same thing in my own life too but it is not easy. In T20 playing the new ball and in ODI go after 25 overs when the ball is a bit old that is not easy and it is a mind game,” he added.
Mohammad Rizwan made his debut for Pakistan in both white-ball formats in 2015 and has since become an important part of the Men in Green’s success.The 31-year-old has an impressive T20I batting record, having scored nearly 3,000 runs at an average of 48.86 and a strike rate of 127.55, including a century and 26 half-centuries. Rizwan has started for Pakistan in the shortest format in 63 of his 78 innings, averaging more than 52.However, in one-day internationals, he has always batted in the middle order.Rizwan has scored almost 2,000 runs in 74 ODIs, with an average of 40.15 and a strike rate of 89.80. He has scored three hundreds and 13 half-centuries.
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