Pakistan’s wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan has been named theleading T20 Cricketer link in the Worldin the 2022 edition of the Wisden linkAlmanack. Rizwan link became the first-evercricketer link in the history of T20cricket to amass over 2,000 runs in a calendar year who scored 2,036 runsin 45 innings at an average of 56.55 in 2021.
Twenty20 batting is supposed to be a volatile, high-variance occupation:boom-boom or bust. Occasionally, a player produces a purple patch to riseabove the hurly-burly. But no one has had a year of such sustainedrun-scoring as Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwanlink.
Never mind seeing it well: he was batting as if blessed with foresight. Andin a sense he was. After starring in Pakistan’s ten-wicket demolition ofIndia at the T20 World Cup, his clarity of purpose was summed up by a viralvideo from the ICC that spliced his pre-game routine of visualisationalongside the boundaries he struck during his 55-ball 79.
