T20 World Cup 2021: One worrying sign for each team ahead of the tournament

5) Pakistan: Lack of firepower

Pakistan have been overly dependent on a few batters for a long time. Players like their skipper Babar Azam and their keeper Mohammad Rizwan have scored the bulk of the runs for their side. They’ve been the backbone of Pakistan’s batting.

While this isn’t a worrying sign, both of them are anchors. Neither of them is a slogger who could deposit balls out of the stadium regularly. This means that they need some aggressive batters to give them the luxury to rotate the strike and hold the innings from one end.

Fakhar Zaman has had a bad time in the shortest format of the game for a while and you can’t expect him to regularly provide the firepower for his side. Hafeez is in his early 40s and might not be able to hit the big shots at will. Even Asif Ali has had a torrid time and thus, they don’t have the firepower in their batting unit.