Pakistan speedster Mohammad Amir adviced the Pakistan team to be careful of their semifinal clash against Australia in T20 World Cup 2021. Notably, Pakistan has played top-notch cricket in the marquee tournament so far as they have successfully beaten teams like India and New Zealand convincingly in the Super 12 stage. On the other hand, Australia finished second in Group 1 after winning four out of five games as well.

However, Amir claimed that the Pakistan batters couldn’t utilize the powerplay well as they were not at their best in the first six overs against Namibia as well.

“The mindset of teams, especially in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, is to post a score around 160 and in order to do that you need to take advantage of the powerplay. If you look at the match against Namibia, despite the fact that they didn’t have any world-class bowlers, Pakistan didn’t utilise the powerplay properly and tried to make up for it at the back end of the innings,” said Mohammad Amir on his official YouTube channel.

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However, he also gave a warning to the Pakistan team that Australia bowlers won’t allow them to score 60 runs in the last four overs and he also advised them to play with an offensive approach from the beginning as well. He stated that Australia are in a good form and they will certainly trouble Pakistan. And, he believes they need to play their A-game in the semifinals.

“However, Australia won’t let you do that. They won’t concede 60 runs in the last four overs so Pakistan needs to ensure that they play attacking cricket from ball one. If you go in survival mode against top sides at the beginning, they won’t give you margin to make a comeback later in the match. We need to score at least 35-40 runs in the powerplay in order to score 160 plus,” he added.

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“Pakistan’s real test will now begin because, in my opinion, the only team which could have given tough time to Pakistan in the group stage was India as we know the conditions in UAE very well. Australia have been playing some good cricket and Pakistan needs to be on top of their game to beat them. Chasing [against West Indies] 160 in 16 overs for the loss of two wickets is no joke, it means that they [Australia] are in good rhythm,” Mohammad Amir concluded.