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ICC T20 World Cup 2022: How Can Indian Batters Deal With Shaheen Shah Afridi? Sachin Tendulkar Explains

Shaheeh Shah Afridi was the wrecker-in-chief when Pakistan defeated India in ICC T20 World Cup last year in UAE. India will be playing Pakistan for the third time this year.

Shaheen Shah Afridi will be on Indian batters' minds on Sunday at MCG.
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Shaheen Shah Afridi is one of the world's premier white ball bowlers and the Indian batters need to try and play him 바카라straight바카라 even if they are attacking the talented Pakistani left-arm pacer, said legendary Sachin Tendulkar. (More Cricket News)

India and Pakistan will face-off against each other in their ICC T20 World Cup 2022 opening match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday.

At his peak, Tendulkar played a lot of limited overs cricket against Wasim Akram, perhaps the greatest left-arm fast bowler of all time and the maestro did share his observations with PTI during a chat.

Asked what he would have done had he faced a bowler of Shaheen's calibre during his playing days, Tendulkar laughed and said: 바카라I have not put my mind as such since I know I won바카라t be facing him.바카라 But then on a serious note, he shared his point of view.

바카라Shaheen is an attacking bowler and he likes to go for wickets. He pitches the ball up and backs himself to swing the ball. He has the capability to beat the batters in the air and off the pitch with his pace upfront. So with him strategy should be to play straight and within the 'V',바카라 said Tendulkar.

Shaheen's greatest asset is to bring the ball back into right handers at express pace and even getting a few to hold its line apparently with no change of pace.  He also has a good short ball which can hurry batters and make them candidates for leg before.

Tendulkar, a technician par excellence, also warned that even if a batter makes trigger movement (the initial reflex movement), it shouldn't be akin to making a commitment to play the shot.

바카라Trigger movement is a preparation to play the ball and not commitment, if you are not committing to play the ball, it could be either on front-foot or backfoot, but it is a trigger movement and not commitment,바카라 he said.

바카라Because once you are committed on backfoot, you can't come on the front-foot and vice versa. Trigger movement is about preparation. 바카라Every ball, there is some kind of movement, as long as that is not commitment it is fine,바카라 Tendulkar concluded.

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