nidameyer

I design and I illustrate for things that matter. Moreover and often it's Tetris. Food & Wander makes life worth living. I tweet cricket mostly…

[nidameyer @nida_meyer]

My illustration IG account is now up https://t.co/frc0pBhWEY

[Iqra Khan Niazi @iqrakhanniazi]

JD Vance after seeing memes about himself 🤣

[🕷 Childish Ghambino 🍉 @Sarkhail7Khan]

Hearing reports Babar Azam will be addressing JD Vance by his full name:
Jee Definitely Vance.

[Tahir Mehmood @tmabbasi1]

@MDUmairKh @afiasalam Proud of Pakistani girls &their football team in particular.
My long held contention is that the real change & the real hope & the real power for strong Pakistan in future lies wutg its educated women work force. They will be unstoppable.
We must ensure peace& liberty for them.

[𝓢𝓮𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓱 @itsmeSehrish]

JD Vance after hearing the American accent of Islamabaddies

[Hasan @hasanshahbaz19]

Everyone around the world is happy except fatherland and motherland.

[Kamran Yousaf @Kamran_Yousaf]

Those who were mocking Pakistan for brokering a ceasefire, listen this 1:40 minute dispatch from Tehran. Each & every word carefully to have an idea what does this truce mean & if there was no deal what would have happened!

[Anas Tipu @teepusahab]

pakistanis should now get visa on arrival globally for stopping a world war

[R. @RxSuryv]

My faith in humanity is restored after seeing Daal Gadot getting hate everywhere 😭 https://t.co/6Xf8v5LQsW

[Ammar Khan @rogueonomist]

So id a CNIC is expiring, why does every financial institution start freaking out -- why can't they just access NADRA database and update the expiry date. Why does one need to update it individually everywhere. Some reasonable person fix this pls

[Ira Dugal @dugalira]

Who is Banksy?

What a fabulous read.

https://t.co/hONUDPZ8ga

[omar r quraishi @omar_quraishi]

Professor Seyed Mohammed Marandi of Teheran University takes Yalda Hakim to the cleaners

[Harram @_harramm]

be delusional in ur duas for the next 10 nights. Suleiman (AS) asked Allah for a kingdom no one had ever seen before. what makes u think ur impossible dua is too much? dont limit Allah's power by ur limited imagination.

[Faizan @faizannriaz]

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.

[nidameyer @nida_meyer]

@DeafMango Congratulations papa mango! Kia naam rakha hai bhui wahhh mashallah!

[Joy @Joydas]

Spain should henceforth be known as Spine

[Hassan. @Heyitshassan]

I am fully convinced that 2019 was the last normal year we ever had. Ever since then, it feels like everything’s broken. Everyone is constantly anxious, time moves too fast, and nothing actually feels real anymore. The world as we knew it is just gone

[Mazher Arshad @MazherArshad]

Sahibzada Farhan was Pakistan’s leading run-scorer in the T20 World Cup but there are certain aspects of his game that merit discussion. Highlighting specific areas does not mean the player is poor or should be dropped. It is simply about assessing performance objectively.

Accumulating runs in T20s has never been an issue for Pakistan’s batters. Both Babar and Rizwan were prolific and topped the rankings yet Pakistan reshuffled the top order because they wanted aggression. Farhan has provided that intent but it is still to be tested consistently against stronger opposition.

Farhan’s T20I record against SENAI (the top five sides) makes a poor reading: 376 runs in 18 innings at a strike rate of 115. Against lower-ranked teams, he has 929 runs in 27 innings at a strike rate of 147. It is noticeable contrast with a decent sample size.

Since 2024, the average balls taken to reach 50 in T20Is are: Australia 27, England 28, India 28, South Africa 29 and New Zealand 29. Pakistan batters on average takes 33 balls to score a fifty, the same as Farhan’s.

Milestones are not the priority in T20 cricket, but when they come, they should arrive at the right pace. At times, there appears to be excessive focus on personal landmarks. For instance, against Namibia he scored just three runs off the last three balls before reaching his hundred with a non-aggressive single and he even acknowledged surpassing Virat Kohli’s 319-run mark by fist-bumping Fakhar. Such celebrations seem slightly unnecessary and pursuit of such landmarks can distract you from bigger goals.

If we look at the last two matches, Farhan’s fifties came off 32 balls against Sri Lanka and 37 against England, well below the current global benchmark. There is no doubt Farhan is a more powerful hitter than Babar and Rizwan against both pace and spin but his dot-ball percentage (42%) remains among the highest, which affects the level of early momentum he can generate.

In a game, read SL vs Pak, where 419 runs were scored in 40 overs, a fifty off 32 balls or a hundred off 59 balls is just about par. It is not a bad innings, but it is unlikely to create a powerful impact. In contrast, Fakhar’s 84 off 42 balls at SR 200.00 was a far more impactful knock.

Farhan now is likely to move to No. 2 in the T20I rankings and could even reach the top if results elsewhere go his way. Rankings are celebrated by fans, but elite teams rarely base their strategies on them alone (a mistake Pakistan did before with certain players). That’s why despite being Number 3 in the world, he didn’t make it to the 14 Pakistan players shortlisted for auction of the Hundred.

Pakistan have won 29 T20Is in the past year. But that quantity does not make them the best team in the world. Similarly, sheer weight of runs cannot, by itself, define a batter as the best.

[Danyal Rasool @Danny61000]

Surely Pakistan go with a lineup tomorrow that actually has a remote chance of winning big, and that means taking decisions they haven't yet shown they're brave enough to make.

Team selection tomorrow should tell us a lot.

[Kamran Muzaffer @KamranMuzaffer]

بیٹنگ آرڈر کی بحث تب بنتی ہے جب پورا پاور پلے اوپنرز ہی کھیل جاتے ہوں

جس ٹیم کے ہر پاور پلے میں کم سے کم چار بندے بیٹنگ کا مزہ چکھ لیتے ہوں
اس ٹیم میں بیٹنگ آرڈر کی بحث بنتی نہیں ہے ویسے