The advantage of Power hitters in the middle of the batting line can be seen in last night's match between Pakistan and England. If Pakistan didn't have Asif Ali in the squad, the result would have not been the same. Asif Ali is the current Power Hitter in Pakistan's team.
He is the best power hitter for Pakistan at current times. Before Asif Ali, We had power hitters like Abdul Razzaq and Shahid Khan Afridi but after their retirement, the department of power hitters was kind of deficient. Asif Ali was there but he didn't perform well. Cricket experts had faith in him because they thought he has the potential to drag out the team in tough situations and luckily he successfully did in the last two matches.
Asif Ali scored 27 runs in just 12 balls in the most crucial time and managed to take away the pressure and lead the Pakistan team to success in the New Zealand match. He hit boundaries at the time when the whole team and whole nation were under pressure because their bowlers didn't let our batting side perform well. Their bowling was so phenomenal that it looked our strong batting lineup might topple down chasing only the target of 134 runs. But Asif Ali made it look so easy.
The same thing happened last night against the Afghanistan cricket team. Their spinners Rashid khan and Mujeeb didn't let our batting side exceed any boundary and surprisingly their fast bowler Naveen ul Haq only conceded 2 runs with the wicket of Shoaib Malik which is the most experienced batsman on our side. Everyone lost hope and thought maybe the matching getting out of our hands.
But Asif Ali looked confident because he didn't take any run on the last ball because he wanted to take the strike in the next over. All of my colleagues started cursing him as we all were watching the match together. They thought he should have taken the single because it might have released the pressure a bit. But Asif Ali was courageous enough to not take any run.
At that time Pakistan needed 24 runs in 12 balls which looked huge. But when he bombarded the first ball to the spectators for a six, the whole room jumped from the excitement. And then he scored 3 more sixes in the next 5 balls and chased down 24 runs in just one over so easily.
Asif Ali claimed that he already told Shoaib Malik on the other side that he is confident enough to easily chase the 24 runs in just one over. And he did exactly what he claimed. Thats what power hitters are famous for, they snatched the losing game from the hand of the opposite side and gift it to their team and nation. Thats why, power hitters are required in every team at the lower end of the batting lineup. We didn't have successful power hitters after Abdul Razaq and Shahid Afridi left our team but now we have one by the name of Asif Ali.
I hope he keeps performing like that and other teams start fearing him like they used to fear Shahid Afridi and Abdul Razzaq. Because they knew they are capable enough to change the result of the game within a few moments.
Cricket is my favorite sport. And some of the rules of cricket confuse me. You have described it beautifully.