Farhan Ahmad 🇵🇰

Just an average guy speaking his mind. Cricket & Pro wrestling enthusiast. Likes to rewatch favorite shows & movies.

[Farhan Ahmad 🇵🇰 @BeingFarhan04]

Stupid caption..

[Saya Corporation @SayaCorps]

The captaincy returns to where it belongs 💥

#BabarAzam leads Pakistan in the Test arena once more, one of the finest this country has ever produced, back at the helm of the red-ball side ✨

A great game Proud to call him ours.

#MoreThanAthletes #riseandrise

[Abu Bakar Tarar @abubakartarar_]

Babar Azam becoming Pakistan’s Test captain!

The irony is hard to ignore.

Pakistan went almost three years without winning a home Test series under Babar Azam, so the PCB replaced him with Shan Masood.

Pakistan then went through Shan Masood’s tenure without winning a single away Test series, and the solution was… bringing Babar back.

When first tome Babar resigned, many people including former players said Babar needs to focus on batting to make a great career, but Babar probably doesn’t agree as he accepted the captaincy for the 3rd time in last 6 years.

Another irony: when Babar first stepped down in 2023, he wasn’t interested in accepting only the Test captaincy and wanted leadership across formats. He later returned as ODI and T20I captain, and now, three years later, has accepted the very Test captaincy that wasn’t enough then.

The selection story has been equally fascinating. Babar was dropped from the Test XI, later recalled, and is now back as Test captain under almost same selectors.

If captaincy was being decided purely on recent Test performances, Salman Ali Agha and Mohammad Rizwan would have had strong cases based on the last four years. Instead, Agha leads the T20I side.

Babar’s previous Test captaincy brought series wins over Sri Lanka, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, but Pakistan couldn’t win series against Australia, England or New Zealand.

Sometimes Pakistan cricket doesn’t come full circle, it comes full spiral.

Whether accepting the captaincy again is the right move for Babar’s own career is a debate that will continue.

[Farhan Ahmad 🇵🇰 @BeingFarhan04]

Glad to see Azan and Fazal being backed as test openers..

Thrilled to see Ali Usman, Awais Zafar, Ubaid Shah and Mohammad Ali.

Also good to see Aamir Jamal coming back. Hope he does something valuable.

[Pakistan Cricket @TheRealPCB]

🚨 Babar Azam to lead Pakistan in upcoming Test tours of West Indies and England 🏏

#WIvPAK | #ENGvPAK | #PakistanCricket

[Farhan Ahmad 🇵🇰 @BeingFarhan04]

There you go..

This man has taken an oath to disappoint us again and again..

[Farhan Ahmad 🇵🇰 @BeingFarhan04]

If Babar does go through with this, it'll be proven that he's the biggest idiot ever.

[Farhan Ahmad 🇵🇰 @BeingFarhan04]

Everything aside, welcome back @dhillow_ bro you were deeply missed. May God bless you in all aspects of your life.

[junaiz @dhillow_]

🚨The Selection Committee will announce the Test squad for the West Indies tour tomorrow at 11am ( Suhail Imran )

[Humble Wrestling @WrestlingHumble]

❤️❤️❤️

[WWE @WWE]

The NEW WWE Champion @samizayn! 🔥

[Farhan Ahmad 🇵🇰 @BeingFarhan04]

If Babar does go through with this, it'll be proven that he's the biggest idiot ever.

[Farhan Ahmad 🇵🇰 @BeingFarhan04]

@WrestleFeatures The whole Bloodline story has overstayed its welcome.

If all this doesn't culminate in a Roman vs Rock match then what's the bloody point?

[Humble Wrestling @WrestlingHumble]

…

[Farhan Ahmad 🇵🇰 @BeingFarhan04]

His WC'15 campaign is still fresh in my head. He was unbelievable.

[Caught At Silly Point @atsillypoint]

He climbed to world number one 14 different times, averaged 118 in deciders, and struck at over a run a ball in every century he ever made. And we still do not talk about his value in odi format enough.

Sometimes I sincerely feel the cricket fraternity never honoured AB de Villiers properly in ODIs. Because this was his supreme format, and he is arguably the finest ever in it. Inarguably top two to four of all time. And no, I am not joking. Pick any metric you like and he is extraordinary in it. If your mind is still not persuaded, let the numbers do it.

Start with the raw record: 9,577 runs at 53.5, striking at 101.1. Alongside Kohli, that is about as iconic as an ODI statistical line gets. But the raw line actually undersells him, because he spent half his career in the one new ball era, from 2004 to 2011, when scoring was genuinely harder. Even there he averaged around 45 at a strike rate of 90. And from his 2009 prime onwards, with one ball, it climbs to 63 at 99.2. Remember too that he was never really an opener, he was pushed up as a stopgap for close to 40 innings early on. Strip that out and his non-opening record in the one-ball era reads 3,478 runs at 52.69, striking at 92. Sensational stuff.

Then the two-ball era arrives, and he becomes something else entirely. From 2012 to 2018 he scored 5,054 runs at an average of 64 and a strike rate of 113. Among everyone in that era, only Kohli lives anywhere near those numbers. Not Rohit, not Babar. A different stratosphere. His 50-innings peak from November 2013 brought roughly 2,948 runs at 73 with a strike rate near 119, the greatest 50-innings stretch since Viv Richards.

And this was not bully work against the weak. Away against India, Australia, England and New Zealand, he averaged 72.58 at 106. He spent roughly 1,480 days as the world’s number one batter, and because he was fighting peak Dhoni, prime Kohli, peak Sangakkara, Amla and Warner for the crown, he had to reclaim it 14 separate times. Fourteen. He finished eight of his thirteen full years ranked in the world’s top two.

The pressure numbers might be the maddest of all. In run chases: 4,204 runs at 56.81. In successful chases: an average of 82.77. And in ODI deciders, the games where everything is on the line, he averaged 118.60 at a strike rate of 113. Across three World Cups he made 1,207 runs at 63.53, striking at 117.

And then my favourite stat of all, the one I tell everyone. Every single ODI hundred AB de Villiers ever scored came at a strike rate above a run a ball. Making hundreds is one thing. Making them consistently is another. Making every last one of them at that tempo is simply not normal.

We were watching one of the greatest ODI batters who ever lived. It is time we said it properly.

[Caught At Silly Point @atsillypoint]

He climbed to world number one 14 different times, averaged 118 in deciders, and struck at over a run a ball in every century he ever made. And we still do not talk about his value in odi format enough.

Sometimes I sincerely feel the cricket fraternity never honoured AB de Villiers properly in ODIs. Because this was his supreme format, and he is arguably the finest ever in it. Inarguably top two to four of all time. And no, I am not joking. Pick any metric you like and he is extraordinary in it. If your mind is still not persuaded, let the numbers do it.

Start with the raw record: 9,577 runs at 53.5, striking at 101.1. Alongside Kohli, that is about as iconic as an ODI statistical line gets. But the raw line actually undersells him, because he spent half his career in the one new ball era, from 2004 to 2011, when scoring was genuinely harder. Even there he averaged around 45 at a strike rate of 90. And from his 2009 prime onwards, with one ball, it climbs to 63 at 99.2. Remember too that he was never really an opener, he was pushed up as a stopgap for close to 40 innings early on. Strip that out and his non-opening record in the one-ball era reads 3,478 runs at 52.69, striking at 92. Sensational stuff.

Then the two-ball era arrives, and he becomes something else entirely. From 2012 to 2018 he scored 5,054 runs at an average of 64 and a strike rate of 113. Among everyone in that era, only Kohli lives anywhere near those numbers. Not Rohit, not Babar. A different stratosphere. His 50-innings peak from November 2013 brought roughly 2,948 runs at 73 with a strike rate near 119, the greatest 50-innings stretch since Viv Richards.

And this was not bully work against the weak. Away against India, Australia, England and New Zealand, he averaged 72.58 at 106. He spent roughly 1,480 days as the world’s number one batter, and because he was fighting peak Dhoni, prime Kohli, peak Sangakkara, Amla and Warner for the crown, he had to reclaim it 14 separate times. Fourteen. He finished eight of his thirteen full years ranked in the world’s top two.

The pressure numbers might be the maddest of all. In run chases: 4,204 runs at 56.81. In successful chases: an average of 82.77. And in ODI deciders, the games where everything is on the line, he averaged 118.60 at a strike rate of 113. Across three World Cups he made 1,207 runs at 63.53, striking at 117.

And then my favourite stat of all, the one I tell everyone. Every single ODI hundred AB de Villiers ever scored came at a strike rate above a run a ball. Making hundreds is one thing. Making them consistently is another. Making every last one of them at that tempo is simply not normal.

We were watching one of the greatest ODI batters who ever lived. It is time we said it properly.

[Farhan Ahmad 🇵🇰 @BeingFarhan04]

Aik baat hamesha yaad rakhnna.

Kabhi apni beizzati is liye bardasht mat karna ke saamne wala dil ka acha hai bas zubaan karwi hai.

Bad-ikhlaaq aur besharam logon ka na dil acha hota hai, na hi zubaan.

Jo tumhara baare main zehar ugle, us se door ho jao.

[books 📖 @bookpoets]

take the risk

[thoughts. @wordpostdaily]

wednesday...

[stressed @onlystresstoday]

you deserve someone who thinks you’re too important to lose and proves it with consistency, consideration, and respect.

[Farhan Ahmad 🇵🇰 @BeingFarhan04]

NEEDS. TO. WIN.

[Roman Reigns SZN 💥 @reigns_era]

For the first time ever..

Oba Femi will wrestle inside HIAC AT SUMMERSLAM

#WWERaw

[Farhan Ahmad 🇵🇰 @BeingFarhan04]

Just retire the bastard already.

[Wrestle Ops @WrestleOps]

Oba Femi challenges Brock Lesnar to a match at SummerSlam.

Lesnar accepts but in a HELL IN A CELL Match.

#WWERAW