Aatif Nawaz

That's starting to become something that really weighs heavily on Pakistan's minds and perhaps creating the kind of pressure that doesn't allow them to actually play to their potential.

They're constantly looking to compensate in those big moments.

I felt like that's Shaheen's big problem as well.

He's trying to compensate.

Every time he gets hit for a six, he tries to come back and do something even more complex and world-bending when really he just needs to try and execute.

It certainly was, but I'd rather, if I may, just sort of start at the beginning with Saebzadeh Farhan who's coming into this game.

A lot of the build-up about this game was going to be the battle between Saebzadeh Farhan and Jaspreet Bumrah because Saebzadeh Farhan, you know, memorably took him to task in the Asia Cup last year, became one of the first batters to really dominate Jaspreet Bumrah.

There was a lot of build-up about that on our coverage.

We had Nagraj who was talking about that as well.

Good.

Simon Yu because he got a very good ball but a lot of the other shots were born out of compensation and I feel like again this goes back to two things one they let India get too many runs and they knew it and they felt like they had to compensate for that with a really strong start in the powerplay a statement start that included lots of boundaries and things like that they played high risk shots and really frankly a couple of brainless shots in there as well

that put them in a horrible position where they were four down and the top four couldn't make it into double figures.

The second part of that for me is this hold, this psychological hold that I got into just before those post-match interviews that India have over Pakistan.

In those key moments, if you go back to 2022, Pakistan had that game in hand and let it go.

If you go back to 2024 in New York, where Pakistan were really close to winning, they dismissed India, their target was 120, a runner ball.

You'd back them to score, you'd back most teams to score that, but they just crumbled under that pressure.

There's something about playing India at the moment that just affects Pakistan on a psychological level.

It does not allow them to play their best cricket.

I mean, maybe that's the difference between the two sides and the way that they've developed over the last couple of decades.

You know, in the IPL, these Indian players face these scenarios on a regular basis, where they're being tested, where they're put under intense pressure, where they're in front of massive crowds, and, you know, the scrutiny level is very high.