Muhammad Saad

Sporting fanatic. Hopeless Pakistan cricket fan. Life is like a box of chocolate. #GGMU

[Muhammad Saad @saady15]

Cracked the code on making the perfect chai.

Steps:
-boil 1/2 cup milk with 1/4 water and 3 Elachi (cardamom).
-add 3 tbsp of lose tea (add less if don’t want strong tea)
-add 2 tbps of sugar
-let it simmer until perfect brown color reached.
This is for 1 cup of tea
#tea #chai

[Muhammad Saad @saady15]

Calling out @ESPNcricinfo for being one on the most biased sports journalism website. The hate is so inherent it cannot be ignored. The 2nd pak is on the back foot it becomes the top new. Throughout IPL, IPL was the 1st piece of new but tn it’s front page is pak cric. Ironic.

[Bella Morris @Belorris]

Pakistan actually deserves waiver of its all debts for what they are doing for world peace. Am I right?

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇵🇰 US says Pakistan has been an "incredible mediator" in efforts to end the war with Iran.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

DEAR PAKISTAN, THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE

As you know, I'm very critical of some of your domestic policies, but I applaud you for ending one of our generation's most dangerous wars

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Pakistan’s PMO said Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam phoned Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to request Islamabad’s support for an immediate halt to attacks on Lebanon.

[Bloomberg @business]

As US President Donald Trump’s deadline approached for Iran to agree to a ceasefire or face “all hell,” Pakistan emerged as a key mediator to help deliver a two-week pause in fighting https://t.co/CyjDIBJVVp

[Saad Pasta @SaadPastaDev]

the dua i make every Ramadan: ya Allah, let my zakat go up every single year. that’s the growth that matters.

[Muhammad Saad @saady15]

@farmansiddi I’m talking about the to tournament in general. It has been a high scoring tournament. I feel like hard rollers hv been rolled for today’s game. Taking nothing away from indias batting, but wicket seems to favor India, even though it’s a world tournament n not a bilateral series.

[Muhammad Saad @saady15]

@farmansiddi Most games in India have been high scoring games. Only the games in Sri Lanka had a balance between ball and bat.

[Muhammad Saad @saady15]

@farmansiddi Fair enough. But as much as I enjoy watching India bat, wickets like this takes the fun out of the game. No competition between bat and ball.

[Muhammad Saad @saady15]

@UbisoftCanada Ps5

[Muhammad Saad @saady15]

@Assassins_UK Ps5

[International Hockey Federation @FIH_Hockey]

𝐏𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐈𝐇 𝐇𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐩! #𝐇𝐖𝐂𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔

Pakistan make a stunning final quarter comeback vs Japan to win 4-3 and qualify for the FIH Hockey World Cup 2026.

📱 Stream allthe matches live on https://t.co/igjqkvzwmV

[Farman Siddiqui @farmansiddi]

South Africa in World Cups are a Shakespeare tragedy.

[Muhammad Saad @saady15]

@farmansiddi What a knock!

[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.

[Wajahat Kazmi @KazmiWajahat]

Shaheen Shah Afridi is finished…

[Muhammad Saad @saady15]

@bhogleharsha I think you r 1 of the best most unbiased journalist. Can you pls do a podcast on how pakistan needs a clean up in their team. Someone needs to get this messge to our management. No room for Shaheen or Babar nymore.

[Muhammad Saad @saady15]

@i_mAfridi Someone just drop him