Srinagar: Pakistan batting coach Adam Hollioake has defended young wicketkeeper batter Azam Khan after another failure vs New Zealand in second T20I.
Azam Khan so far has sckred 10 and 2 in the first two matches of the series.
“Azam Khan is a destructive batter I mean unfortunately tonight he came in and he really needed to go straight away and he got out. One of those things where if it works you look great if it doesn’t work you look stupid. He’s an exciting player, a big hitter, though he hasn’t shown it in these two games. Expect him to shine in the future,” Adam said in a post match presser.
“I don’t know I mean he’s a talented guy but there’s lots of talented guys in the squad so you just have to see what the pitch is and what the makeup of the team is in the next game so it’s not a case of just he deserves to be in because there’s a lot of good players in Pakistan and to be who you keep in Pakistan you have to be at the top of your game so we’ll see,” he said.
Meanwhile New Zealand defeated Pakistan by 21 runs in the second T20I of the five-match series.