Watch | Mohammad Rizwan retired in BBL after slow batting:Ex-Pakistan ODI skipper scored 26 in 23 balls, Melbourne Renegades lost the match

Former captain of Pakistan’s ODI team, Mohammad Rizwan was retired out in the Big Bash League. Playing for Melbourne Renegades on Monday, he scored 26 runs off 23 balls. Then, team captain Will Sutherland called him back from the field and went to bat himself. After calling Rizwan back to the pavilion, Melbourne scored 16 runs in the last 2 overs and set a target of 170 runs for Sydney Thunder. Despite this, the team lost by 4 wickets. Rizwan could only score 26 runs in 9 overs
After losing the toss in Sydney and opting to bat first, the Renegades had scored 83 runs in 9 overs. In the next over, Jake Fraser-McGurk was out. After him, Mohammad Rizwan came to bat, but 2 more wickets fell while Rizwan was at the crease. Rizwan then formed a partnership with Hasan Khan, but by the 18th over of the team’s innings, he had only scored 26 runs. During this period, the team’s score could only reach 154. In these 9 overs, Rizwan played 23 balls. Meanwhile, the team could only score 71 runs off 54 balls. Captain Sutherland called him back
After playing the last ball of the 18th over, captain Will Sutherland called Rizwan back. He retired out and returned to the pavilion, his place was taken by captain Sutherland himself, but he was run out after scoring 1 run off 1 ball. With the help of Hasan Khan’s 46 runs, the team scored 170 runs losing 8 wickets. It started raining after the first innings, due to which Sydney got a target of 140 runs in 16 overs. The team achieved the target in 15.2 overs, losing 6 wickets. Nick Maddinson scored 30 runs off 17 balls and Chris Green scored 34 runs off 13 balls to lead the team to victory. Renegades suffered a loss due to defeat
After the defeat against Sydney Thunder, Melbourne Renegades slipped to 7th position in the points table. The team’s chances of reaching the playoffs have become very slim. Now the team will have to win both the last matches by a big margin. Along with that, they will also have to pray for other teams to lose. Rizwan was a flop throughout the tournament
Rizwan is playing in Australia’s Big Bash League tournament for the first time. Before the match against Thunder, he could only score 141 runs off 141 balls in 7 matches. Not a single six was hit from his bat; he hit his first six in his 8th match. However, even here, his strike rate remained below 115. Most Pakistani international players have performed poorly in the Big Bash. Former captain Babar Azam is batting at a strike rate of just 104.05 in 8 matches. He has scored 154 runs with the help of 2 fifties. However, he has hit 3 sixes. ODI captain Shaheen Shah Afridi could only play 4 matches, but he got only 2 wickets in them. He was ruled out of the tournament due to injury. Fast bowler Hasan Ali could only take 7 wickets in 6 matches for Adelaide Strikers. Haris Rauf, however, has performed excellently. Playing for Melbourne Stars, he has taken 15 wickets in 8 matches. Leg-spin all-rounder Shadab Khan scored 104 runs along with taking 7 wickets in 6 matches.